This is official: Tayyip Erdoğan has defeated Fethullah Gülen. This open victory has empowered both Erdoğan and the warriors around him with enormous self-confidence.
Before anything else he/she should be center right, but at the same time, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) should be able to say “Yes, we can vote for that person.”
The CHP is on the right track with its wish to gain votes from the conservatives, with its heading toward candidates of various ideological identities, with its prioritizing social peace, with its positive approaches to the peace process
There is now a formula following the elections: Tayyip Erdoğan is the presidential candidate… An individual chosen by Erdoğan other than Gül is prime minister
First, a very tense election campaign period and then following it, there is a “balcony address” that tempers the strained political atmosphere…
1. Their rhetoric was Islamic but too intellectual...People did not understand what they said. 2. Fethullah Gülen’s residence in Pennsylvania became a problem.
When deaths are sent away by deaths, when hate triggers hate, when the bodies of young people fall to the soil, when polarization increases
I met İlker Başbuğ in his house. He did not look as if he had left jail only three days ago, but rather as if he had just resigned as Chief of General Staff
Why isn’t there an all-out declaration of war from every corner of the AKP against the Cemaat?
