The December 17 Process
Unless this structure is exposed and fenced off, the democratic politics will not be secured.
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What happened on Dec 17?
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?
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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.
The biggest trouble a social movement may have is the impression that it contains militia or cooperates with a secret organization.
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 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 Necessity and Difficulty to Describe Gulen and His Followers
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.
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The December 17th Operation and Intellectual Trauma
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.
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The political institution must make legal and institutional arrangements in order to save the sphere of politics from tutelary mechanisms.
The ultimate goal must be to depoliticize the Judiciary by pulling it back to its procedural legal boundaries.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
The Justice and Development Party (AK Party), with the elections on March 30, will have run in a total of eight elections since its founding. If the polls and the rallies are any indication, it seems that AK Party will prevail once again.
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.
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.
The AK Party wins the elections because it is the only party that is capable of running in all political districts in Turkey.
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.
