The meaning and value of the originality of the deceased Erbakan Hodja, who reveals a whole new character in terms of rhetoric and style in our political life, is much better understood and accepted today.
From the moment he stepped into political life, he was attacked very severely. He faced with false slanders. He was mocked and jeered. It was even said that he was smuggling heroin. His political interlocutors poked fun at him both in the parliament and in the public opinion. To make a needlessly mockery of him, they guffawed jeeringly. He continued on his way without spoiling his wording, kindness and stance. He told what he would do. He made an effort to wake the nation. He carried his dreams and goals into effect as long as he was a partner of the power. He got unexpected achievements.
He ignored the serious blockade of the media, syndicate, military, political circle and fund which were defined as the gang of 5 in the process of February 28. He continued his work and stance without targeting anyone. He left everything to time. His parties closed down but he kept going fearlessly with new parties all in good time. Every move, despite all the challenges, led him to success.
Most importantly, he destroyed and disbanded the Unionist Masonic political structure. All of the political structures that received radical and multifaceted support fell backwards.
He never insulted his interlocutors. He formed partnerships with unexpected persons.
He gained a great success in the 1973 elections and entered parliament with 48 deputies. He came to the key party position. In the tensest time, in the period when there were conflicts of rightists-leftists, when the young died and when the conflict of politicians was on its peak. A period in which the left and right circles couldn’t come together. A period in which the rightists force to come together with Suleyman Demirel of the AP (Justice Party) but Demirel didn’t approach this request. A period in which the thought of closing down the MSP (National Salvation Party) by throwing the country in a crisis and forcing for an election was preponderant. A period when it was decided that the Islamic divinity students secondary schools would be closed by a decision taken by the Minister of National Education Orhan Oguz in the National Education Council in 1968 or 1969, during the period of Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel. The closing of Islamic divinity students secondary schools of the 73 Islamic divinity students schools in the government of Nihat Erim who was appointed with a military coup in 1971. The de facto closure of the 32 Islamic divinity students school which hadn’t a high-school. A CHP-MSP coalition established in such a time with Bulent Ecevit as Prime Minister and Mustafa Ustundag as Minister of National Education. The reopening of schools with the coalition protocol, the coming into service of the closed schools, the opening of 33 new Islamic divinity students schools. Moral courses became compulsory for an education system in which religion courses were elective and not compulsory. Entering into a process defined as “historical mistake” by Bulent Ecevit with his important admission when the coalition was established. It was a period in which the rightists attacked the MSP and Islamic thought and political circles as “green communists” with the coming together of the two unexpected sides.
Erbakan Hodja, who brought a new wording to political life, established good and beautiful relations with almost every group. He had a coalition partnership with almost all of them.
He entered into a coalition with Suleyman Demirel, Alpaslan Turkes and recently with Tansu Ciller. He was in human affairs with almost all of them. He didn't see anybody as an enemy. He never changed his basic idea, his wording. In his last periods, there were two people who didn’t establish partnership with him. These were Mesut Yılmaz and Devlet Bahceli. On February 28, Mesut Yılmaz and Devlet Bahceli took part with 28 February partisans. Therefore, they cooperated with the idea of FETO.
He didn’t insult anyone both on the parliamentary stand and in the squares. From time to time he criticized it with an ironic language. The harshest was when Suleyman Demirel supposedly punched the table in England came to the agenda of the media he said: “you merely tumble there against them instead of punching the table”. This was the harshest.
There is so much need to this approach, to this language today.