(...)you should look to your roots if you want to become more than a footnote in history books.
But the roots were also not "school-book"-type of faithfull Muslims.
Only some were trully Muslim (ethical perfection).
In contrast, most of the ruling class were decadent with some very bizarre type of things going on under their rule.
First of all, you need a strong Army to be even taken serious by other states.
We currently have compulsory conscription in Turkey, with about 600.000 soldiers that do their conscription after school-age.
But in near future, compulsory conscription will be abolished and Turkey will have 500.000 strong professional career Army.
That would make Turkish Army one of the biggest professional Armies in the world.
German Bundeswehr has 250.000 professionell Soldiers, but it will be reduced to 150.000 Soldiers to new Reform plans.
Bundeswehr-Reform: Guttenberg prüft radikale Verkleinerung der Truppe - Politik | STERN.DE
So Turkey will have professional career soldiers more then 3 times the size of Bundeswehr.
General Staff of Turkey expects a 500.000 professional Army to take 45 Billion $ in personal costs.
Professional army key to end debates over conscription
Soldiers then become important consuments and their status within economic-society cycle increases.
Currently soldiers in the Army are the neighbour's son, your nephew, your cousin who does compulsory service, so there is resistance from society against risky adventures involving these male soldiers.Son is expected to marry or go into private-economy after compulsory service.
With new system, Turkey will have 500.000 men, that are Soldiers by profession and are payed to take risks. Cycle of loosing soldier know-how will also be stopped, and different sub-components of Army will accumulate know-how with every year that passes as soldier material stays same.
Allthough the Army will still be the Army of the society, pressures from the society on Army strategy and planning will decrease.
Link: Turkey ready to hire 500,000 career soldiers
It is also good for economy. Students and so on, dont have an interruption in thei economical life due to compulsory conscription.