Seems to me, Turkey is a big beyond the stage where "good men" can simply stand up in public and denounce the administration and trust in the people to side with them.
"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."
Rephrasing that for people who have received a modern math education, did Burke perhaps mean:
"It is a sufficient condition for the triumph of evil that good men do nothing."
Easy to say that when you're not at risk of being detained indefinitely without due process.