This is my fear, the oil wealth simply stagnates the Empire once more, the elite can live well, the masses are no longer starving but dangled in a vast welfare state, no genuine development, the big new buildings devoid of any actual businesses, the highways used for parades, so indeed too much like the stereotype of Saudi Arabia. And if so then why not an Islamic revolution akin to Iran? If modern trappings just destroy the fabric of life then why not return to the singular constant? Modernity skin deep does not build communities as faith and family can. And even Islam itself can barely contain the ages old rivalries, squabbles and jealousies of this group or that. We need a middle class and a genuine Ottoman identity to make the OE more than a corpse in fine clothes, we need the Arabs and other minorities to be peers with the Turks rather than disliked half-brothers or less, and even the influx of oil wealth is decades away. And with it there are plenty of wolves coveting all that wealth.