I have a turkish coworker whose family is from the areas affected by the earthquakes, and she has postulated that Turkey might soon be a candidate for balkanisation, since the affected part of Turkey is heavily kurdish and used to be in favour of Erdogan, but now a lot of the villages are seething with rage at the Ankara government and their botched aid attempts. Obviously everyone has their blind spots, but your comment reminded me of that discussion we had a few days ago.