Now that you mention it (checking Wikipedia) Turkey is the country for whom Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is president, one of the most notorious autocrats in the world (to whom the former President of the United States is a huge fan and wants to emulate). So yes, a regime change to something way more democratic with proper social safety nets would certainly be helpful.

I can't speak with regards to other communists, but to this communist, the notion of post-scarcity communism in which everyone is comfortably homed, fed, educated and informed is regarded as a remote ideal that will require addressing bunches of problems to achieve.

That said, Turkey within its own history has done better than it is doing today. I suspect Erdoğan (and the killer test for which it's a major crime to cheat on) is a symptom rather than a cause.

How about getting more professors on board and making sure everyone can study?