Fifty shades of Islamism. AKP =/= Khomeini =/= Muslim Brotherhood

But wait, there's more: the influence of secular and socialist movements during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 has very often been downplayed or forgotten, the former mostly by representatives of the current regime, the second mostly by people everywhere from about 1982 onwards.

The way you constructed your post is also rather misleading, as it gives the idea that the transition from the Osman state to the Turkish republic was a sudden shift from a so-called "Islamic" state to a secular republic, while in fact, the Caliphate had been experimenting with secularist concepts from the early 19th century onwards (cf. Tanzimat, Young Ottomans, etc.).

Additionally, strong economic growth in Turkey didn't really kick off until well after the 1980's.

I'm very much opposed to the AKP and Erdogan and his lackeys for many different reasons, but in you post there are a lot of things that are either wilfully ignored or just overlooked, which leads to a very flawed analysis of the recent history of Turkey, and as such to something of a misleading argument.