March 30 Elections and Opposition Parties
The opposition parties neither signal a structural and managerial change in their parties nor offer a different vision for the future in the event they lose the March 30 elections.
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Polls Speak Highly' about the AK Party; Turkey not to Lose the EU
SETA Political Researcher Galip Dalay said that there is no big drop of support for Erdoğan and his party due to the tension.
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In other words, extra-parliamentary forces working against the government have effectively resulted in Erdoğan's association with democracy, the ballot box and popular will.
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.
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
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.
It is the requirement of rational politics for Turkey to have economic and political cooperation with all countries, notably with her neighbors.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Democracy cannot flourish in Turkey if Gulen Movement's parallel structure is not dismantled.
The Gulen movement will be isolated from other Islamic groups as long as it breaks the Sunni codes. The accusations against it of acting against Turkeys national interests and joining an international alliance will also continue.
As Turkey has become the scene of a corruption case on December 17, 2013, no one anticipated what the relevant investigation may lead to.
