Abdulkadir Özkan: "A period of reconciliation, not a fight"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "A period of reconciliation, not a fight"
Date: 31.1.2023 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Turkey's politics. Here is the full article.

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The future thoughts of the Nation Alliance were shared with the society yesterday. Thus, to draw the attention of the society in another direction through the Nation Alliance, by running the campaign "They cannot even announce their presidential candidates" at every opportunity for perhaps almost a year, those who see this in line with their interests have now seen how the Nation Alliance will not only determine the presidential candidates, but also how the future of the country will be shaped.
 
I know that the Common Policies Memorandum of Understanding, which was produced as a result of all this extensive work and preparation, should not be a surprise if the members of the political understanding, who have made success in politics the basis of their policies, only fight and underestimate and devalue their interlocutors.
 
Because it is not surprising that those who know how to put aside the solution to the country's problems and throw the responsibility of the problems they have piled up for 20 years to the opposition, feel uncomfortable with the announced joint agreement. Ignoring the fact that the increase in the wages of employees and retirees is below the declared minimum wage, those who think it is politics to try to get rid of responsibility by not only ignoring it, but also by throwing the responsibility of rising inflation on some markets. If it is possible for them to come to their senses in the face of new statements and proposals and at least take into account the suggestions of the Nation Alliance, if the opposition parties can avoid some of the troubles caused by the 20-year rule without being in power, the opposition will have done its best to prevent the mistakes of the administration.
 
At this point, the Common Policies Memorandum of Understanding has emerged as a result of a long and intensive study and has been presented to the society as a text of 242 pages. Although this presented text has been published, its presentation to the nation at yesterday's meeting was made in the form of a summary.
 
However, the parties and organizations that are members of the alliance have a great responsibility to fully understand the content of this text, which we can call the Government Program of the Nation Alliance. In this respect, in my opinion, identifying the country's problems from start to finish and presenting solutions to them are capable of laying the groundwork for important developments for our country.
 
Because, when the government for 20 years said that we will solve a problem with rash decisions, it has made the problem even bigger and the problems have become unsolvable. In short, the government, which has turned all its attention to creating some perceptions on the society, will not be easy to get rid of by destroying all the problems of the country to the opposition or foreign powers, as it was in the past.
 
As a result, the Common Policies Memorandum of Understanding is revolutionary in terms of country administration. Of course, this situation will make it difficult for some applications that were presented to the society as the steps of the century (!) to be presented and accepted by the nation with the same approach from now on.
 
In short, the concept of "I did it and it's done" will no longer apply at least. If not, those who continue to walk on the same road will be questioned by the public.
 
By the way, my hope is that even if it is conducive to seeing that the approach of some politicians, where the path to power is through fighting and separation, it is possible to talk and agree with a joint agreement text, that it is possible to find a solution to the country's problems by fighting, and that it is easy to find a solution to the country's questions if it is spoken and acted with a common mind. The joint agreement text will do what is necessary.

YEREL HABERLER

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