Can Turks be trusted with their own future?

Turkish nation is the great secular democracy that Ataturk dreamed of but was never able to see when he is alive.His successors in this secular Kemalist priesthood have been reluctant to allow his dream to flower.
The secular Islamic Republic that is going to embrace the ideals of the west without losing the heritage that it brings from its Islamic and Ottoman background.That idea gave Kinzer the sense that Turkey really was a country poised at the break of greatness.
Turkey was built on the fear that its enemies would pull it back to fundamentalism and away form the modern ideals of Ataturk. In the years since then, the Kemalist elite has clung to those fears. They still fears but there is no time for Turkey,it should move on urgently. Turkey is now prepared to complete its march toward democracy. The fears that we are hearing are fears that come from historical tradition. These traditions don't fit into modern Turkey anymore.
The people who hold political and military power in Turkey, are terrified at what it will mean when believers are able to practice their religion freely, when people of various ethnic groups will be able to assert their ethnic identities, when people have who fundamental criticisms of the Turkish Republic are free to say and write everything they think. Turkey can not stand up in front of the Islamic world as ‘a modern Islamic country’ and also in fornt of the West world to defend its own idea but there are always people who have tried to encourage leaders to break out of this psychological prison into which they have locked themselves for so long. Now, I think that group is larger than ever.
As a result, Turkey is now at a stage where it is able to withstand the stresses that democracy encompasses. Postponing its dream is going to growing frustrations, even in a country where people are naturally not confrontational. This is a danger for Turkey. Turkey will certainly change in time and will have the ability of make important decesions by themselves.