Islam is a religion, not a race. Erdogan in the past has claimed that his AKP party represented a reformist Islamic POV however his attempts to fashion himself as a leader of the Muslim world have been met with rejection and peals of laughter along with fears that he intends to implement a neo-Ottoman agenda. His main success has been to internally rewrite the rules in order to keep himself in power and avoid term limits. That and killing Kurds while bombing and seizing an area (Afrin) 10x the size of Gaza and getting away with occupying North Cypress.
If one is a fan of Erdogan one might even admire the duplicity he employs to play off NATO against the Russians.