Haberler

Over the past five months, a flexible and mobile section of the electorate appears to have lived and learned, through its own direct experience, that the AKP’s failure to form a government by itself may have drastic consequences for peace and stability, especially given that the opposition promises nothing but negativism and destruction.

Turkey now has the benefit of a very significant social push to cut across the adverse current that it entered after 7th June. In the days ahead life will be presenting us with a new equilibrium. We have to bet on the new social dynamics making for change.

At the point reached today, the AK Party has again pulled ahead at the end of a marathon of four elections in two years

On the threshold of a new election, the party needs to take a fresh look at itself, and to make a move intended to close the scissors gap of quality. Otherwise it may not be able to escape resembling all the other parties.

So it all comes to this: At present, it is very clear that there actually is an internal and external front trying to overthrow the AKP. It could well be that at certain critical moments, a directive intervention which we might call a “meta-intellect” is also coming into the picture. But what is truly capable of bringing the AKP down is not any such “meta-intellect” but a “quality-gap.”