What Really Happened in Turkey?

A wish for the AK Party to be thrown out of power through undemocratic means is not a stance that can bring about meaningful political change. ItÂ’s a psychological reflex from a bygone era.

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What Really Happened in Turkey
Turkey Distress' in Syria

‘Turkey Distress' in Syria!

Most of the evaluations that have been made by the media and political circles regarding Turkish foreign policy in Syria have three characteristics in common: They are void of Syria, baseless and conspiratorial.

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The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paying a visit to the United States attended a conference, “Global Order and Justice in the 21st Century” organized by SETA in Washington D.C.

Extrication of the Turkish-Israeli relationship from the US-Turkey relationship represented a structural change.

Judging from the scene revealed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the paradigm has bankrupted and the transition to a new order has already begun since the world of friends and enemies who stood by the tutelage regime for years is totally confused now.

The Resolution Process and AK Party

ErdoÄŸan carried the country away from an undeclared bankruptcy into a great transformation in 10 years.

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The Resolution Process and AK Party
Turkey's Somalia Policy Aims to Ease Regional Tensions

Turkey's Somalia Policy Aims to Ease Regional Tensions

Some Western nations, including the United States, are likely to be irked by a Turkey that intensifies its Somalia policy and takes other steps with the aim of restoring area balances, but that is the only way in which Turkey could contribute to bringing durable peace.

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As the parties take a political-stress-test in the solution process, all of the actors who fail to play a founding-role will have to suffer structural fractures, independently of the survival or success of the process.

For years, the liberal/left discourse in Turkey misconstrued the “identity” debate to describe the “Kurdish question” through the Western-informed lens of the distinction between “good” and “bad.”

Whatever happens, relations between the two countries cannot and will not reach the high level of cooperation between TurkeyÂ’s pro-coup elites and Israel in the late 1990s.

Given the projected direction and strategic vision of the message and notions used in the statement, this message represents a mental transformation and a paradigm change.

In addition to a big plus in the diplomatic success column of Turkey, for the sake of being realistic however, the structural issues such as the Turkish-Israeli conflict over the regional vision and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc. should be taken into consideration.

The million-dollar question, is this: Will the PKK manage to make tough decisions in 2013Â’s Turkey, where the tutelage regime is almost completely gone?

If universities want to hold their special positions granted to them by the society, then they must be ahead, not behind, of the society in their search for the truth.

The AK Party makes the understanding the pillar of its policy that the status quo which maintains no-solution as its foundation can no longer be maintained.

Just as universities cannot be the places where students resort and consecrate violence; universities are public places where one cannot limit students and academicsÂ’ right to protest.

The statements of government circles, new initiatives taken by the CHP (Republican PeopleÂ’s Party) and the interview with Leyla Zana among others boosted hopes once again.

As elective courses in the education system increase and become diversified, people have worried that this will weaken the values that hold society together.

Pre-new constitution period is an appropriate time to discuss the disadvantages of the current political system and to pursue the quest for a new political system.