Elections and the Rise of Religious Discourse
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.
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The Political Significance of Local Elections
The Dec. 17 operation transformed the local elections into a vote of confidence for the AK Party government. March 30 is no longer about municipalities and town councils but Mr. Erdoğan's political future
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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.
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.
It is the requirement of rational politics for Turkey to have economic and political cooperation with all countries, notably with her neighbors.
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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What's Happening in Turkey?
All of the Western media, having received their information from the same 20-30 top individuals, all of whom share the same point of view, paint a particular picture of Turkey.
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Corruption cases have a devastating impact on political parties. Turkey was recently hit by a corruption probe that shook the country's government. On December 17, 2013, Turkish police detained over 50 people as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
The slanderous claim of Erdoğan-al Qaeda link has been systematically voiced by the Gulen Group in Turkey. It is impossible to distinguish the mentality behind this slander from the Baath mentality in Syria or the US mentality in Afghanistan.
Two different constitutions were drafted and put on a popular vote in three years after Hosni Mobarak was overthrown in Egypt.
Rule of law has been one of the leading topics of discussion since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The founders of the secular republic which was built on the ruins of the Ottoman State, attempted to ground it in a hybrid model of politics and law, in every sense of the word.
Developments such as the destruction of the weapons of mass destruction and softening relations between Iran and the international system may generate a different motivation in the upcoming negotiations.
It is possible to say that the next step for the Egyptian Minister of Defense, General Abdel Fattah al Sisi, will be the presidential post. This is because new campaign groups and movements to support his candidacy have already surfaced.
The December 17, 2013 process must succeed to transform the structure of the Gulen Movement into a civilian-religious movement for the sake of the religion, the movement and the country.
We face a center before us that, rather than arresting the criminal, accumulates crimes until it decides to use them for its own politically motivated operation later, committing an ignominious crime itself.
