Türkiye’s ruling party in the predicament of inefficiency and decline – part one

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, these days in Turkey, Everyone is talking about the undeniable success of Erdogan’s opposition party. The party that was founded in 1923 and 101 years after its establishment, was able to stand on the first step of Turkey’s first party once again and practically put Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party in a dead end position.

Now that more than a month has passed since the defeat of Turkey’s ruling party in the municipal elections, many analysts are asking: What happened that Erdogan and his party suddenly found themselves in such a situation? Although the opponents have written in detail about the important aspects of Erdogan’s defeat in the media. But this is the first time that a writer close to Erdoğan also speaks about this issue. That too in the radical newspaper “Yeni Shafaq” published in Ankara, which has always exaggeratedly considered Erdogan as a unique leader and his party as an ideal example for the Middle East and the world, as a platform of pro-Erdogan Brotherhoods and Salafis!

Professor Yasin Aktai, one of the analysts of Yeni Shafaq newspaper, in a detailed two-part note, mentioned the reasons for the failure of Akparty Turkey and believes that the current state of the party is not the only example of a decrease in popularity. And it means loss of blood and fear of loss of life.

Yasin Aktai is a sociologist, a professor at Bayezid University in Ankara, a former adviser to Erdogan and a former member of the Policy Council of the Justice and Development Party.

He is from the small minority of Arab descent from the Kurdish city of Sirte. That is, the same city where Erdoğan’s Arab wife was born.

Professor Aktai, who also has a good command of Arabic, is one of the close friends of most of the Brotherhood figures in the region. He had taken Jamal Khashoggi to meet Erdoğan twice and was the first person who learned about this story through Khashoggi’s fiancé after Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.

If Che newspaper Yeni Shafaq is still in Erdogan’s front, but for a long time now, Yasin Aktai does not support Erdogan as strongly as before and complains and criticizes some intellectual, ideological and institutional bottlenecks of the ruling party.

We review Yasin Aktai’s detailed note about the reasons for the decline of the Justice and Development Party and the way forward:

Akparty, both lost blood and lives
It is inevitable to make a serious and fundamental assessment about the reasons for the failure in the results of the March 31 local elections. Because the game was changed and these results have seriously changed the political scene of Turkey. and learns a lesson in his own way. One of the parties that reacted the fastest to this issue was the Good Party, whose leader and leadership staff changed quickly.

The fact is that this result is only related to the elections. It is not a municipality, and basically a phenomenon called cadastre or demarcation and map of the power position of parties in the political sphere of Turkey has completely changed.

Özgur Ozel, the leader of the People’s Republic Party, was the surprise winner of the election and now he is in a position where His party influences the political direction of Turkey. Therefore, the scene has changed and the leaders of the parties must display their art to manage the new conditions. Influence is to achieve a new attitude. Of course, the first thing you have to do is to change your subject and attitude towards many issues and accept that there is a problem in your work.

You can’t Change someone else unless you change yourself first. As we have seen, Özgur Ozel’s actions changed the repeated course of the People’s Republic Party and this party achieved electoral success that it had not experienced in the last 50 years.

But about the party What should the ruler of Turkey say? Akparty or Justice and Development Party, as a party that has always maintained its organizational relations with the people and remained in power for many years, why did it reach this situation?

Let’s not forget, Justice and Development is the same party that was able to appear as the first party in all elections for 22 consecutive years. Therefore, he achieved a position and success that is not easy to surpass in Turkish politics. It is very difficult to pass such a party and it requires a lot of effort. /strong>
The initial statements of the leader of Turkey’s ruling party about the level of failure and failure were very important. When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party suddenly dropped to second place after 22 years of leadership, he spoke bluntly and did not use vague terms and words.

Erdoğan “It seems that not only is there a loss of votes, but we have lost a considerable amount of blood and lives,” he said. Then he stated one of the most important reasons for the loss of blood and soul in this way: “The biggest enemy of a political party born from the heart of the nation is that it builds a wall between itself and the citizens.”

Undoubtedly, this very radical and unconventional assessment of Erdoğan was more serious and powerful than many foreign criticisms of the Justice and Development Party. But in fact, this is an important sign for the revision of the Justice and Development Party and it shows that Erdogan is aware of everything that is going on in the party and society.

Of course, no evaluation yet Or we haven’t seen a clear step from the Justice and Development Party to show whether it really wants to do something to compensate for the loss of soul and blood, which Erdogan himself is aware of.

Did Akparty compromise with the Kemalists?

The lack of spirit and vitality in the ranks of the Justice and Development Party that Erdoğan He saw it immediately after the election and mentioned it, how will it be compensated? This is not an issue that can be postponed by saying that there are 4 years left until the next election and leave it to the future.

The world is changing rapidly and Turkey is It is subject to great global tests. In this process, the power of Justice and Development Party will be needed for the spiritual roots of Turkey, more than ever, and this party is aware of its responsibilities.

We must once again To think that 22 years ago, why did the Justice and Development Party come into existence and where did its path end? With whom did he start the movement on the path of struggle and politics, with whom will he continue?

Is the Justice and Development Party, which emerged as a popular movement against the tutelage circles ruling Turkey? Instead of settling accounts with those circles of guardianship and the ideology of Kemalism, did he choose compromise as his final path? Now that the Justice and Development Party has established its foothold, after all these years, should it compromise with the secularists and Kemalists? In this case, can it maintain its ideal identity and vision?

In the next part of this note, we will discuss why in the Justice and Development Party, farewell and farewell to The post and executive responsibility, at the same time, is a separation from the spirit and ideals of the party, and how much this wrong procedure has damaged this party.

Continues. ..

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