Post-Elections: Back To The Virtuous Circle'
In the post-election period, Turkey has already entered a new era of high economic growth and robust political stability, thus restoring its decade-long virtuous circle.
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Understanding Turkey and the Elections
The AK Party wins the elections because it is the only party that is capable of running in all political districts in Turkey.
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One of the reasons why political jargon is framed as if it were a general election is because of the Dec. 17 operation that caused local elections to be pushed out of its normal process.
What is more important is that if the struggling actors switch to embracing and democratic statements, it is possible they will have already lost credibility in the eyes of the public.
Identifying the Dec. 17 operation as an attack against the AK Party government by the Gülen Movement, conservative voters are likely to rally behind the Turkish prime minister in upcoming local elections. Consequently, the controversy might increase the ruling party's popularity among its core constituencies
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.
The Eavesdropping Scandal
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.
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The AK Party and Dec 17
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.
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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.
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.
The February 7, 2013 and the December 17, 2013 plots (against the government) have shown to the politics and the society the possible cost to be incurred if the Gulen Movement maintain today the strategy they have adopted under the conditions of the Old Turkey.
The December 17, 2013 operation is nothing but a multi-dimensional attempt to substitute the gate-guard perspective for politics and to change the order by judicial jugglers in courts.
The biggest trouble a social movement may have is the impression that it contains militia or cooperates with a secret organization.
In the last decade, after the tutelage regime was forced to retreat, Turkey embarked on a new era. It was easier then to determine the existence of the military tutelage through the crude and tangible interventions of the military bureaucracy into politics.
There had also been numerous corruption investigations into municipalities governed both by the AK Party and other political parties. Why didnt those investigations attract as much attention as the Dec. 17 investigation?
Unless this structure is exposed and fenced off, the democratic politics will not be secured.
