Can Turks be trusted with their own future?

It is difficult to make a generalization for the mature of all Turks to be trusted on their own future because of the unequal conditions they have but it does not mean that the ruling elite should continue to make all important decisions.
When the Republic was established, Atatürk realized many revolutions in such a short time and the most important one was democracy because Turks had been administered by an absolute power(sultan) in the Ottoman Empire. So, they were in a habit of being controlled by someone with certain rules.It was hard to adapt to democracy. In the adapting process, some groups have wanted to use democracy for their own profits and someone have supposed themselves as the heritages of Atatürk on deciding all important decisions alone as Stephen Kinzer mentioned on the text of ‘Dreaming In Turkish’ (pg.10). As a result, if we want to improve as a whole, it is a condition that the repressive and asocial insights should be turned into true democratic principles.Because the development could be realized in a atmosphere where all different ideas can be argued with an indulgence. A true democracy can be applied with people who think freely without a pressure of a powerful group. When, the ruling elite make all decisions, politic steps reflects the ideas of a definite group and people feel themselves under a strict control then, the chaos can not be prevented and the republic can be in a danger of divisible.
In conclusion, Turks should be trusted on their own future to develop to be more mature for being conscious citizens of our Republic.