A young man approached me the other day at a bar in the Aegean town of Bodrum and said: “I was a security officer 15 years ago fighting in the mountains,"
One day we will wake up and see that we no longer have Tayyip Erdoğan in our lives…
I’m not being ironic. I’m not joking. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is right when he spoke about a “system change” in Turkey. Indeed, the situation has truly “changed.”
On the topic of Zekeriya Öz, the former prosecutor investigating coup charges but who now himself is being charged with a coup attempt and has fled to Armenia, I think the festivities are over and we need to talk about serious matters (when I say festivities, I mean the ones that are organized by his former partners).
When I learned that the former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz was wanted by Turkish police and that he fled abroad, I remembered the late İlhan Selçuk, a veteran journalist who was one of Öz’s victims.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) wing has announced, “We were not able to reach an agreement with the Republican People’s Party (CHP) on three topics.”
Maybe it is not everybody’s opinion but a portion of the public in Turkey and in the world believe Islamist political parties “may come to power through elections, but they do not leave even if they lose elections.”
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seem to assume that when they attack the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) like this, they will deter their voters.
Exactly two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote, “Your Syrian policy is wrong. As a result of this, our border region will turn into Peshawar.” Unfortunately, what I said came true. That place became such a center of atrocity that it makes al-Qaeda jealous.
