At the end of the day, those prospective investors who cannot get appointments are even more confused. Rather than invest in a country with such weird Chief Advisors, let’s hold on to our money a bit longer, they start saying…
We are faced with a group of cheerleaders who, if Erdoğan were to change his views, would themselves instantaneously do so, perhaps ending up by defending the opposite of what they are saying today. The problem is that the acceptability of any opinion by society is not independent of the character or quality of the defenders of that opinion. Hence the emergence of this sort of group is capable of degrading the objective itself.
Etyen Mahçupyan If you want to contextualize the system in a more pluralist, local and irreversible way in a country where bureaucratic tutelage is internalized...
In days to come, the AKP will need to build the broadest alliances possible in addition to its own core reserves of power. As a corollary it will need to narrow the target and follow a “broad” line, refraining from being side-tracked into creating new fronts.