The election campaign seems to be passing with fake agendas, composed with erroneous claims. Especially the ruling party and its ally are trying to get votes by following this path. However, elections aren’t a general election, local administrations will be determined. In other words, AKP have no fear of losing power. Perhaps the outcome of these elections may lead to a self-review of the ruling party; it can make them to think about where they have made a mistake. Such a situation can be useful both for the country and for themselves. Because it seems that being the power for years on their own has conduced toward stuck in a mistake of thinking that all they do is right. Because there’s a serious intolerance against criticisms. In a way, the power members exhibit expectations that all things they say and do should be credence by everyone. And this doesn’t allow to seeing and correcting a mistake.
For those who are condemned to such intolerance, the wording harden willy-nilly, things that aren’t are showing as they are. They can accuse people who don’t think like themselves, who come up with different solutions with being together with terrorists. Especially when the Saadet Party is in question, they feel seriously uncomfortable about seeing this party and its members in every corner of Turkey. If this weren’t so, would the Saadet Party, which had been call an election nationwide in all provinces and districts on their own, would it necessarily be tried this party to be shown in alliance with someone? Moreover, according to the constitution and the law, there is no legal drawback for the parties to make an alliance, this is a right. AKP and MHP have also made an alliance by making use of this law. It is as if the legal arrangement that paves the way for the alliances is only made for the AKP-MHP alliance, and it is treated as if it is forbidden to ally for other parties. It isn’t possible to regard this behavior normal by people with fairness.
At this point, I would like to briefly quote the answers of the General Chairman of the Saadet Party Temel Karamollaoglu to the questions of Zeynep Gurcanli in the Sozcu Newspaper. First of all, it’s useful to reiterate his answer to the question about alliances.
“The 10 percent threshold in the general elections forced us to be in an alliance. There is no 10 percent threshold for the election of local administrations. So we aren’t in an alliance. We’re the only party that presents a candidate in every town. But they want us to pin on something. It’s a lie to show the Saadet Party in an alliance. Muslims don’t lie.”
“If Turkey is really in a survival trouble as they claimed, they are firstly obliged to provide the internal peace. Everyone should embrace each other. There can be different opinions, different ideas. But we have to resist to dangers that come from outside as one man. But they're marginalizing, dividing. Voters who vote for them are patriots, others are traitors. Can a President especially say that?”
Karamollaoglu sums the economic condition of Turkey up in this way:
“If the policy, the performance they reveal by governing Turkey is reflecting their main idea, Turkey is ending. Unemployment is too much. It reached approximately 4 million. Sometimes they say, ‘You're exaggerating’ these numbers. Their own numbers are exactly 3 million 981 thousand. While the unemployment is rising, the inflation is also rising. Interests have risen. Central Bank interest rates are still 24 percent. There aren’t similars in the world.
They say that recently, foreign trade deficit decreased. Well, why did it decrease? Our economy has weakened; our exports have decreased like our imports. There’s a lot more stolidity than clumsiness. They try to arraignment to others, to oppositions instead of themselves. The oppositions aren’t managing this country. A child would understand it if you told him/her but the government insists on not understanding.”
I don’t think there is any need to prolong words.