I know, it’s basically impossible to be a politician in Turkey and not some kind of that.

If you look at most Sunni societies, their political ideology optimal point is simple - behead all the infidels, take all that belongs to Muslims, and that’d be all that Muslims claim, and institute Sharia law.

Young Turks and Kemal managed to transform that into a viable nationalist ideology. To be centered on Turks instead of Sunnis.

No secular regime in a Middle-Eastern Muslim country after them has managed to achieve that.

So - Erdogan’s Muslim part in ideology is about equating Muslim and Ottoman, not about returning to the initially described system.