Could Turkey create a liberal Islam?

Here an intriguing potential source and impetus to Reform in Islam: Adrian Hamilton: Could Turkey create an Islam acceptable to the West? - Adrian Hamilton, Commentators - Independent.co.uk. The heart of the matter for me is stated here.

"What is different about Turkey's move to liberalise the more oppressive tenets of the hadith is not so much what it is doing but that it is a state department of religious affairs which is doing it, at the behest of a governing party of Islamist origin elected to power in a secular country. That opens up the intriguing possibility that Turkey, an eager applicant for joining the EU, could bring with it an Islam redefined to become acceptable to a liberal west. It equally arouses fear that this is just the start of bringing Islamic law and values to a country that has been secular in constitution and culture since Ataturk turned it into a republic over 80 years ago.

Now that is really quite exciting. However, the road is rarely smooth, as such moves will themselves be interpreted by the wider Mohammedan* Islamic community:

It is easy to exaggerate the particular significance of the Turkish move. Turkey is no longer a centre of Islamic thought. Since the growth of orthodoxy is in itself partly a reaction against the west, anything that smacks of making Islam more westernised will tend to bring an immediate counter-reaction. The diktats of a department of religious affairs of a secular state is hardly the place where a reformation of a religion is going to start

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Another thing to watch.

*I'm using the term "Mohammedan Islam" despite the opprobrium of using 'Mohammedan' in many circles. I think that this is a reaction to western 'orientalism' which made an analogy with Christianity, where the religion is named for the founder. Islam sees God as the founder, or Adam and says that Mohammed is 'merely' a prophet. However, I don't accept those reasons: huge chunks of Islam accord Mohammed intermediary status and actually I don't buy the founder myth. The reality is that it is a religion founded by Mohammed of Medina. Also, the term 'Islam' means submission [to God], and as such I regard it as applicable to Christians (who submit 'in Christ') though it may not be my favoured terminology, it is in our Baptismal promises. So 'Mohammedan Islam' in contrast to 'Christian Islam'.