March 30, Local Elections?
After the Dec. 17 operation, the local elections that are supposed to take place on March 30 have come to mean much more than local elections.
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Significance of the March 30 Elections in the Shadow of the Dec. 17 Operations
The upcoming election is a crucial moment for the AK Party, needed to highlight the support of the people in the party's mission to promote political stability while fighting this new tutelage
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The Gülen Movement represents an informal political force in Turkey that holds the countrys political leadership at gunpoint.
We must question how a list that lumped together these individuals - who, even if they committed crimes, would never join forces or commit the same crimes - came into being.
Turkey made significant changes to its political regime while the political mainstream rapidly changed hands. Now the great debate is to find concrete answers to existential questions.
On Dec. 17, 2013, an operation in which a group of irrelevant files of investigations and names were merged was carried out with the joint efforts of prosecutors and the police.
Turkey's Kurdish Question and the Peace Process
Despite the lengthy history of the Kurdish question, the persistent coexistence of various political approaches failed to create a mutually acceptable term to describe the issue at hand.
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The December 17th axis
The biggest similarity between Feb. 7 and Dec. 17 is the method employed by the police-judiciary. Both operations had similar aims and utilized similar methods.
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The ultimate goal must be to depoliticize the Judiciary by pulling it back to its procedural legal boundaries.
The political institution must make legal and institutional arrangements in order to save the sphere of politics from tutelary mechanisms.
Turkey is facing a new experience. It is in the process of neutralizing the threat to its judiciary system posed by an organization that infiltrated the government, despite the fact its command post is beyond borders.
With their current structure, it is impossible to describe Gulen and his followers as a religious or a civil society organizatıon. They should be described at most as an organization fighting for a state within the State or a political opposition.
