Erdogan did good stuff for Turkey until 2010-2011 when economy was booming and the country was in good relationship with most of it's neighbors but like any other pseudo- dictator he thought he is invincible after 10 years on power, he started to lose his mind, his ego prevailed and got Turkey into deep trouble.
His ambitions are too big for his possabilties, he is not the pragmatic leader he once was and he overestimated his strenght... right now Turkish economy is in bad shape- high inflation leading to high interest rates, tourism will probably drop by 50% compared to it's best years, exports are declining, industry is not developing at fast rates, banking sector is starting to have bigger and bigger problems with more and more people having struggles to pay their credits, businesses are closing doors. At the same time we have 3 million more mouths to feed from Syria and more people are losing jobs every day because of AKP's politics.
At the same time big terror attacks hit Turkish cities once or twice every month, we have casualties in the Southeast everyday, ISIS are on a offensive against us, Kurds are waving their flags in our cities and laugh in our faces in our Parliament all thanks to AKP. Turkish society is getting more and more divided with every day and with things going worse a lot of Turks start losing a vision for a better future which means they lose hope. People are now afraid to walk on the streets without anyone blowing himself up. Turkey is getting more and more religious- not more educated as it should be (Turkish education is one of the worst in the civilized world that Turkey should follow and learn from, not from some people living in the 19th century who are only able to hit their heads on the floor 5 times a day). Arab islamic influence is getting bigger to an extent that a lot of Turks think Arabs are our brothers which they are not- they have always been our enemies since a thousand years so I don't want to start a war for them and having them as our "alies" fighting on our side- they are bad warriors who know nothing about modern fighting techniques and also they are unreliable as a tribe (arabs are a bunch of tribes, they are not a nation) that has back stabbed us many times during history.
Turkey is now in bad relationship with every neighboring country that can cause problems to us + relations with Russia are now completely frozen, European countries and US start losing their trust in us (it's also the same other way around as I don't know if we ever had real trust between each other) and will soon isolate us. The Middle East is changing, powers are shifting and Erdogan put a bet on the losing horse in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine. Do you guys remember how He was hugging and smiling with his friend Asad years ago and how things turned out at the end. Now everything happening there is going against Turkey's interests. Biggest winners are Israel and Iran (as they have their geo- political enemies weak and in a big mess + Now Iran is not sanctioned and is free to grow), Russia that increased their influence in the Middle east + building bases in Syria and paving the way for Shia domination all the way from Afghanistan to the Mediteranian coast, and of course the USA that is now betting on creating of a big Kurdistan in the middle of the whole region from which Americans will be able to control every road possible between Turkey, Iran, Arabian countries- Mediteranian, Black sea and the Indian Ocean. Their companies will be able to put their hand on the resources of the region + a control on drug trafficking. At the same time americans win lot's of money from selling weapons all around the region and beyond. Anyone who thinks Turkey is capable of fighting against those powers alone is either delusional or plain dumb. Unfortunately such people are ruling Turkey right now- people who overestimate their power and underestimate their enemies... people who should read and learn more from the Eastern Philosophy and less from the Quran. Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu for example are read and studied in every military academy but ask any hardcore AKP supporter if they even heard about them...
Erdogan is leading Turkey to the brink of a big war that may cause Turkey's borders changing and that's a big pain to me as most of my relatives live in there. I am a bulgarian Turk and believe me that I love Turkey more than any other country. I hope that someone smarter is going to change him sooner or later be it in elections of after a coup. Turkey is in desperate need of a smart, secular and pragmatic leader who can take Turkey out of the shit happening in the Middle East- a region that we shouldn't care about as I don't find arabs, palestinians or kurds there as our brothers- close the borders and let them kill each other as much as they want. Turkey should rather concentrate on places where turks and nations friendly to us live- Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa. There will not be peace in the Mid East anytime soon so we don't need to go into the fire as we have more to lose than we can win. Let's bring peace to our house first before thinking about the peace in the countries of those low- life basterds who have always been hating us. I only care about our turkmen brothers living in those countries that our state should have taken as a refugee and invite them to live here as it did 30 years ago with Bulgarian Turks during communism. We do not need those 3 million syrians most of whom steal, do nothing and only eat Turkish resources and bring security dangers to our country. Get them out of Turkey!!!