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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The New Constitution Institutionalizing the Military-Judiciary-Police State in Egypt
Now in Egypt, there is a new Constitution before us which institutionalizes the Military-Judiciary-Police State and narrows the sphere of the civilian politics in the post-coup period, and paradoxically is dominated by completely secular, liberal and Naserist positions.
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As Turkey has become the scene of a corruption case on December 17, 2013, no one anticipated what the relevant investigation may lead to.
The declaration of Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, as a terror organization has been accepted as one of the most radical decisions taken since the overthrow of the President Mohammed Morsi on July 3, 2013.
Almost no one, other than those who initiated the December 17th corruption investigation and those who do their bidding in the media, perceive these events as simply an investigation into corruption.
If Turkey witnesses that its politics has been saliently and overtly designed through this operation, what will be the fate of the country in the face of a new tutelary regime?
The December 17 Process
Unless this structure is exposed and fenced off, the democratic politics will not be secured.
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Decision Time For the Gulen Movement
If the Gulen movement wants to serve society, they should restrict themselves to nongovernmental activities rather than using their bureaucratic influence to engage in politics.
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For now, Yanukovich seems to drift away from pro-western path in his foreign policy considering its Russian originated imminent political and economic consequences.
It is impossible for the old tutelary foundation that is cemented by the Constitution to carry the emerging new edifice of Turkey.
Taha Özhan: Hosting Massoud Barzani in Diyarbakır is a significant turning point which has a consistent decade-old background history, and we may regard it as an ultimate-point for the state.
The AK Party was struggling to find a mid-way amid the red lines drawn by the three opposition parties. If getting rid of the Jacobean articles of the junta Constitution was not possible, then at least considerable effort was going to be exerted to subdue the emphasis on ethnicity in those articles.
The Turkish-Kurdish peace process is facing challenges which can be ironed out only through politics not violence.
At the moment, the Middle East is going through turbulent times. It is clear the end of this political crisis is not near.
The US cannot overcome the fear, concerns and hesitations provoked by these specters and conduct a serious Syria-related discussion despite the humanitarian drama in Syria.
What matters is to establish relations between countries and societies on the grounds of a common future rather than experiences, enmities and prejudices of the past.
The biggest obstacle that stands before Turkeys democratization efforts today is nothing but the 1980 constitution, which was drafted based on the founding ideology after the coup.
Today, quite common verbal attacks against Turkey through the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan are directly related to the security architecture and the preferences thereof, the change in problem solving methods and the efforts to remain independent in foreign policy.
