While the winter is returning weather-wise, politics are heating up.
The election started to make its weight be felt.
The most recent news from AK Party until now was the candidacy of MIT Undersecretary Hakan Fidan and President Erdoğan’s “I’m not looking positively to his candidacy” response to that.
It wasn’t a surprise since it was already known that Prime Minister Davutoğlu wanted Fidan to be in the Cabinet when he has forming the government; however, Erdoğan had objected to it.
What was a surprise to me was Fidan’s candidacy rather than the President’s statement, because I was guessing that he would be staying in charge of MIT like the last time.
Now, what’s as important is the person who will be filling that empty intelligence agency head seat. Many names are flying about in Ankara; however, I could easily say that a surprise assignment will be surprising me less than having a guess. I’m also writing this according to my guesses, not any information.
As expected, many bureaucrats had left their position in order to be a ruling party candidate, and in the near future, we will see how many of them will be in the list and how many will be in the Parliament. At the first glance, plenty of undersecretaries, vice-ministers, deputy undersecretaries and high-popularity names are standing out; Aydın Ünal, the Key Advisor of the Presidency, Erol Göka and Ünsal Ban, a psychiatrist and a neighbor writer, Adnan Boynukara, the Principal Consultant of the Ministry of Justice, Hasan Albayrak, the ex-General Manager of the Credit and Dormitories Agency, Alattin Büyükkaya, the Vice-Minister of EU. Also, Nuri Elibol, the President of the İhlas Ankara Media Group, who is known by the journalists in Ankara, and Hüseyin Yayman, an academician, whom we have known with his journalist identity, are both favorite candidates.
As for CHP; the pursuit is still ongoing in-between great arguments. We still cannot hear the flash candidate names since those arguments are not settled yet; however, it’s certain that Kılıçdaroğlu and his personnel will have new surprises.
While it’s expected from HDP, which unbelievably made the decision of taking the threshold risk by entering the elections as a party, to bring forth striking candidates, the struggle between them and CHP of being the party that ensures unity in the left-wing is still continuing.
Saadet Party’s election alliance talks with CHP and MHP is not a mystery. What’s surprising is that the negotiations are ongoing with HDP also.
In short, the elections are sliding swiftly to a platform which is opening history’s most curious alliances even to greater surprising initiatives.
Such that, it’s even difficult to say anything concrete about whether we will be voting for parties or alliances on June 7th.
Yes, we will be concentrating more on the developments inevitably in the domestic politics; however, in our North, South and West, incidents, which will also affect us, are continuing to increase.
It seems that the civil war in Syria is locked by the front gains and losses between the regime, antagonists, ISIL and PYD. It’s also being seen that following the Paris attacks, the US and the West are sending warmer signals to the Shi’ite axis.
In the North, the sides in the Ukraine matter are lining up moves that will expand the war rather than taking a step back.
In my opinion, the most crucial development in the West is the result of the election in Greece. The European Union, who is under Germany’s leadership and is showing the elbow to Siriza, who is the locomotive of the elected coalition, is actually waiting at the scissors head.
I guess that Germany, who refused Siriza’s re-structuring around 100 Billion Euros without even negotiating, knows what the loss will be if Athens insists. Berlin, who, appropriately to the characteristics of a German, thinks that they shouldn’t take a step back in this incident, is face to face with a difficult exam.
While saying, “Europe cannot shame a nation by humiliating them”, in his speech in the parliament, the Prime Minister Çipras had both stated their determination and attributed Germany’s own history. He reminded Germany, who started WWII after the heavy blow they experienced in WWI, of their own history. If I were Merkel, I’d take Çipras, who also stated that they will be starting an investigation within the frame of the parliament related with the memorandum that had been signed by the previous governments, seriously.
Because, maybe she doesn’t know how many of the Greek generals, who had invaded Anatolia but had been defeated in the Independence War and returned home, and Prime Ministers had been executed because of that defeat. Besides, they had executed some of them by sitting them backwards in a chair and fusillading them with bullets in order to humiliate them in accordance with their traditions. In summary, it seems that the conflict between the impositions of a global system and a nation’s objection will be severe, and, maybe all of these would interest us even more before the election.
