Turkey's Repeat Elections: The Kurdish Wildcard
The PKK's terror, which ended the reconciliation process despite the state's wishes and efforts, and the HDP's supportive statements of this terror seem to shape the electorate's behavior in the Nov. 1 elections.
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Political Parties' Election Agendas
Although parties have not yet started to announce their campaigns for the upcoming Nov. 1 elections, political backgrounds, promises and attitudes on PKK terror will be the key factors headlining their agenda.
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The integrative modernization understanding of the AK Party comprising different races, cultures and social structures, unlike the opposition parties, makes the party the main actor in Turkish politics.
The re-composition of governing boards at the AK Party ordinary congress on Sept. 12 and candidate lists for the parliamentary elections on Nov. 1 were received positively as attempts to mobilize the potential electorate with the insertion of more, rather than less, "Erdoğan effect" through known political faces from his entourage.
The AK Party derived its power from three main sources: First, a discourse of civilization allowed the movement to incorporate various political ideologies into its own platform
The rising tide of PKK violence and the Cizre episode leaves ordinary citizens questioning what the Kurdish community wants.
Is the perception of PKK changing in Turkey?
After realizing that joining the anti-Erdoğan bloc with opposition parties would legitimize its presence, the PKK, by doing so, created itself a very large and comfortable zone to easily terrorize
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An Open Letter to the Opposition
The PKK's presence isn't derived from political conflicts with governments but their deep hatred for the state itself.
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While being politically restricted by the PKK's ending the cease-fire to cancel the reconciliation process, the HDP, again because of the terrorist organization, is losing those who voted for them in hopes of peace.
The political change paradigm led by the AK Party has freed the country from the tutelage of Republican elites, expanding and normalizing the political arena.
Erdogan's role in Turkey is crucial as civil wars and terrorist networks wreak havoc along its borders.
We will observe the unveiling of new political and electoral dynamics in the run up to the elections, but whatever happens on the political scene, resumption of the sense of political stability and predictability will be the key to support brave decisions that the security and economy bureaucracies might be expected to take in the coming days and months.
The MHP's political balance was shaken when Tuğrul Türkeş, not just an ordinary member of the party but also the son of the founder of the MHP, Alparslan Türkeş, accepted the position offered to him by PM Davutoğlu despite Bahçeli's opposition.
Enes Bayraklı emphasized the fact that during the 7 June elections PKK intimidated the population in Southeastern territories of Turkey where the participation in the elections was 100 percent out of which HDP won 100 percent.
Economic stability should be dearly protected despite all political and security-related complications, as it represents the most concrete and rational barrier between the "old" and "new" Turkey.
There were two additional reasons, which deserve attention. One is short-term considerations and the second is ideological differences.
The developments following the elections and breakdown of the reconciliation process demonstrated that the HDP's unprecedented success in the elections was indeed a pyrrhic victory.
