Erdogan is an unapologetic Islamist, so his unquenchable thirst for power and demands of pious submission from the masses is hardly surprising, unless you write for the Globe in which case it's "Islamaphobic" to frame Erdogan's regressive tendencies in the context of religious beliefs.  There is a reason Ataturk thought it necessary to ban head coverings in public, because Islamists don't stop once they get a taste of authoritarianism and Sultan Erdogan has certainly had a taste, with his new Palace, public sector purges, jailing any unfriendly media as terrorists. No free speech, no free press, no freedom.