Abdulkadir Özkan: "Fortunately, the election campaigns ended"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "Fortunately, the election campaigns ended"
Date: 1.4.2019 16:00

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

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The subject of this article should be related to the evaluation of the election results. I wanted to look at the event from a different perspective because I was in the position of writing my article during the voting process, and you need to have precise information to obtain an evaluation of the event. An evaluation made without this information does not go beyond a wish. And the wish is determined by the political movement people are a side of. That is to say, people want to see the desire of their hearts. However, in spite of everything, an election campaign has pass, hair is cut and fell forward. In this regard, evaluating the results in a healthfully way is important for the future of our country. In particular, the power wing must take a lesson.
 
Because our people are condemned to struggle with many material and moral distress. In this respect, during the election campaign, our people did not have the opportunity to see the proposals of parties about the problems in the local administrations and to find out the programs and offers of parties about how to solve the problems of the country which need urgent solutions. I think I’m not wrong if I say that both the general problems of the country and local general problems could not be discussed due to the threat and danger discourses that are made.
 
The Cumhur Alliance (People’s Alliance), by forming a front which is separated with its exact lines rather than being an alliance and accusing the opponent with being in cooperation with the terror organization by putting them in another front, they hide the problems they cannot solve despite being power for years from the public and say that the country has a survival problem, and even how unsuccessful they are, they argue that to find a solution to the survival problem of the country, they should be chosen again. There was such a campaign conducted that people could not put into words the questions, ‘aren’t you the ones who aggravate the problems instead of solving while you managed this country for 17 years? How do you ask for our votes despite all these?’ Perhaps people could not express their feelings out loud because of the psychological pressure they created.
 
In this respect, the emerged image was seriously disturbing people. I have used the sentence, “the election campaign is fortunately over” in the title because at least the end of the election will conduce to the disappearance of this negative atmosphere. I know that this country needs to embrace, to unite instead of separate. While this need should be responded, a ground is given for separating for the sake of votes and this can cause to the continuation of the negative atmosphere for a while that is consisted after the elections. 
 
Despite all, I'm hopeful about the elections. No matter what the outcome is, it will be positive that even those who stress society with their harsh discourse should reevaluate their attitude after the elections. With these feelings, I think that the election will give a ground for embracing in any case. In this respect, I will utter the election results in my article of tomorrow, based on certain information and data. Before I finish my article, I want to express that I regard all my brothers and sisters of the Felicity Party (Saadet Party) organizations and their followers who bravely peg away at their case despite all the impossibilities and the defamatory campaigns as a hero. 

YEREL HABERLER

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