By Semih Idiz One is tempted to look on the latest dramatic developments in Turkey and maintain that there is a serious democratization process underway. But this is Turkey and one has to leave room for doubt in order to get a correct fix on what is going on.

Neither should one take too seriously bleary-eyed Europeans who derive some kind of surreptitious pleasure from seeing the troubles of the Turkish military and the Kemalist camp. While they too believe that a process of democratization is underway, one has to take their often superficial views on Turkey with a serious pinch of salt.
The reason is that Europeans often dig into their bag of clichés concerning Turkey, and produce ""overused"" views even if these are out of touch with the Turkish reality.
One question that such Europeans have to answer is clearly embedded in the latest ""Eurobarometer"" poll on Turkey.
Turkey is too complex a country to be deciphered by means of clichés and preconceived notions. It is because of this that it is not certain whether Turkey is currently undergoing a historic process of democratization, or if it is in the throes of some kind of dissolution, given that the country, including the judiciary now, is seriously divided.