Gezi Park Protests
Now it is time to adopt a calmer approach while analyzing the Gezi Park protests. Since the beginning of the protests, not only the composition but also the motive and aim of the protesters have gradually changed.
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The ‘Diplomat Sheikh' Period in Iran
As Rouhani is a moderate man of reconciliation and dialogue, expectations about adopting a different line of politics in Iran have increased both inside and outside.
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The Gezi Park phenomenon is the first test of the government against a new type of political citizenship that has made an attempt to take charge of political representation somehow.
The leftists and the liberals possess the necessary models that can make an abstract question out of all problems and then solve them with the primitive positivist models of 19th century.
The votes to the Alliance for Employment, Prosperity and Integration led by the Democratic Party (DP) of Albania remaining around 40 percent mean that the 2-term PD ruling is soon to end in the country.
The 2013 local elections in Iraq give an idea about the general elections to be held in 2014 in terms of both the results and the alliances to be formed.
Aqua Fluit, Arénam Manet
Since the beginning of the protests, not only the composition but also the motive and aim of the protesters have gradually changed.
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Character Assassination
It is certain that the character assassination targeting PM ErdoÄŸan through the Gezi Park protests does not expect to reach a conclusion right now. The aim of the character assassination is to obliterate ErdoÄŸanÂ’s decision-making capacity by 2015. At this point, ErdoÄŸanÂ’s leadership test begins.
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The Syria crisis, among else, became a mechanism to tame TurkeyÂ’s self-confidence in the region. Similarly, the riots in Taksim and elsewhere in the 2nd phase were used by some regional and global actors to give a clear warning to Turkey.
Unlike what many suppose, democracy is a regime where conservative governmentsÂ’ conservative policies do not constitute ground for accusations of authoritarianism.
What will shape politics and the society in Turkey from now on is not the identity of those who were in Taksim, but who they represented both qualitatively and quantitatively.
If we are seriously to talk about the last two weeks, there is nothing but a huge political inaptitude in front of us.
