The existence of hybrud regimes and their impact on the political landscape is important to discuss, both from an international and national perspective. Such regimes have developed either towards full-scale democracies or authoritarian regimes. In this study, the focus will be on Turkey due to the country's geographical location in relation to the EU, influence in the world politics and decisive role within NATO. Turkey's political system has been dominated by Ataturk's secularism, although it has been replaced with Erdogan's conservatism Islamism. Questions that will be answered are what factors create legitimacy problems in Turkey and what prevents Turkey from becoming a full democracy? A theory-based qualitative content analysis forms the basis for the analysis of the essay. The theoretical framework is based on Fareed Zakaria's theory of liberal and illiberal democracies in The Rise of Illiberal Democracy (1997) and Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Ways theory of competitive authoritarianism in The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism (2002). The analysis of the empiricial evidence indicates that Turkey is on its way to become a consolidated dictatorship. The Turkish regime can be considered legitimate, but the requirements for legitimacy are not fully met due to the restrictions on, among other things, human rights, Erdogan's dominance and abuse of power and the unfair conditions for the opposition during the electoral process.