Abdulkadir Özkan: "AKP should question itself first"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "AKP should question itself first"
Date: 26.6.2019 17:00

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

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The renewed mayoral election in Istanbul has given the ground for the AKP administration to think about where they have done wrong. I think the party managers will make the necessary evaluation in this direction. However, there is nothing changing in the pro-government media, as they used to hide the failure of the AKP by looking for a number of guilties, they prefer to search for guilties in unrelated places. This shows that the AKP pro-media is doing evil to their parties, not favor. Of course, all this concerns the AKP. Instead of taking advantage of the writing and drawing of the facts, they know themselves if they want to linger with the lies of some supporters.
 
For all parties, each election sheds light on themselves to review. In this regard, especially the ruling party must sit down and think 'where we did wrong with the candidate who won the election in Istanbul two months ago', there were 13 thousand votes difference in this short period of time has passed the 800 thousand vote difference. Otherwise, it is not possible for other parties to explain their failure by blaming their strategies and arguing that they do not support themselves. Moreover, each party determines a strategy on its own behalf and does not take a position in line with the wishes of another party. If there is a common attitude, this is only possible if the parties come together and set a common goal. Otherwise, the desire of some parties to surrender to them is not a realistic approach. Because no party accepts the custody of another party. If they accept, they cannot protect their existence for a long time.
 
The fact that the pro-government media continues to blame the society by ignoring the fact that more than 9 percent of the votes are still the result of terror and terrorist organizations and the policies of intimidating and camping the society shows that at least the pro-government media has not learned from all these developments. Because they are still continuing their fear politics which they have continuing for years. Moreover, this attitude of the pro-media media has damaged the party that they hold rather than benefit. The renewed election results in Istanbul make it clear. But someone does not want to go back on the wrong side persistently, they are in favor of the mood of fear prevails in the country.
 
Evaluating the results of the election seriously, it is a lesson for those who want to see that the case concerned a serious change in political behavior in Turkey. In other words, the society does not want to become polarized and ossified, but to pass through the parties. It considers the spreading of the sense of mutual tolerance between the social groups as opposed to polarization. Moreover, no matter which idea we have, we have to live together in this country in peace. However, in tension; not peace, but unease and unrest are becoming ossified. It seems that so far, one has already demonstrated that even if they have taken one step ahead of the others by making use of these discriminating and campifying strategies, the election results will be reversed from now on. Because society is uneasy to see that it is increasingly weakened not only from the dominant discriminatory discourse but also from the economic point of view. In this respect, all parties are waiting hand-in-hand to take steps that will ensure the peace of our people both spiritually and economically. The society wants the country's interests to be passed over the party's interests.

YEREL HABERLER

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