Akyol quotes religious conservative (Temel Karamollaoglu) who broke with Erdogan government and warns of “an empire of fear, a dictatorship in Turkey by those who claim to represent religion,” which is “pushing people away from the religion.” Sociologist Mucahit Bilici describes Turkey having undergone an "organic secularization, entirely civic and happening not at the behest of, but in spite of, the state. It is the consequence of a local, indigenous enlightenment, a flowering of post-Islamist sentiment."[4]