Abdülkadir Özkan: "Are the elections heading to third round?"

Abdülkadir Özkan: "Are the elections heading to third round?"
Date: 1.6.2023 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Türkiye politics. Here is the full article.

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Just don't say where did this come from. I also know that there is no third round in the elections in our country. However, the fact that the spokespersons of the government still maintain the discriminatory and devaluing tone they persistently used during the election campaign inevitably led me to ask the question I put in the headline.
 
At this point, I would like to draw attention to one point in particular. While evaluating a long speech and statement made by politicians, the fact that a sentence in the speech that should have been in the past was made headlines in some pro-government newspapers makes one think. It is as if some newspapers have taken it as a business to do more royalism than the king in the face of power.
 
President Erdoğan, after saying in a speech that “The nation has kicked the gambling table and knocked over”, states that they will find solutions to the problems faced by the country together with a common mind.
 
On the one hand, while he likens this alliance, which constitutes half of the society, to the gamblers at the gambling table, on the other hand, he says that they will find solutions to the problems faced by the country together with a common mind.
 
Because if the elections brought up the establishment of a gambling table, it should be known that there was not only the Nation Alliance at that table, but also other alliances with the People's Alliance. If a gambling table is created after making this reminder, it is not only the Nation Alliance that takes place at that table, that is, at the election table. In short, it should not be created by a single person or a single group, but there should be a rival against it. Because there is no unbeatable gambling table.
 
Moreover, the fact that the party that emerged victorious from the election table, in other words, from the gambling table, continues to behave with the same tone and style during the campaign as if the elections were not over, it seems that the elections that we thought were over were not over, or the ruling wing has already started the campaign for the local elections.
 
If the old style is continued, our job will become very difficult, especially the campaign of the local elections will be much harsher and more offensive than the campaign of the previous elections. I wonder if a political formation other than the ruling wing in this country has no right to win elections? Will the same side win all the choices we will make, or it has to?
 
If there is such an unexplained thought, it will not benefit the country other than harm. Moreover, if a common solution to the country's problems is to be found, the way to do so is not polarization and devaluation, but embracement.
 
However, if a party is acting with the approach that only I can find a solution to the problems of the country, then saying, "The nation kicked the gambling table," on the one hand, it makes no sense to say that we will find a solution to the country's problems with a common mind.
 
During the election campaign, my readers, I draw attention to the fact that this country belongs to all of us, and that we need to embrace, not confront, in order to live in peace and security in the country.
 
However, at the point we've reached, I asked my own cat, "Isn't there anyone in this country who is in favor of embracing other than us?" comes the question.
 
Because in order to be able to talk about finding a solution together, it is necessary to embrace embracing first. If this is not done, talking about common sense or finding a solution together is nothing more than an effort to hide the real intention.

YEREL HABERLER

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