Yes, I've often tried to imagine what it's like to live under a totalitarian tyranny. I draw a difference between people trying to survive one and people seeking to serve or profit by one. The former are pitiable while the latter are wicked. Yet the wicked may see the error of their ways and seek to change the regime and the people trying to survive protect the weak. Thus Rommel's participation in the plot to assassinate Hitler and the few Europeans who risked their lives protect Jews from the Nazi genocide.
I had thought that Turks, given their history, could muster the strength to battle tyranny once more - to rise to the challenge of the day, rather than try to avoid it. Am I mistaken?