Team Erdoğan’s corruption has become unsustainable. In a normal country, the leader would hit reset. Erdoğan may no longer be able to. Too many of his cronies now have vested interests in the status quo. A real cleanup would jeopardize the arrangements that keep them loyal.
Americans have prejudices, because they are human. However, as most people who have lived in other countries will attest, as a nation they are not particularly racist. On the contrary, they are more accepting of other races, ethnicities, and creeds than almost any other nation.