Haberler

The AK Party rose to prominence through its promise to break the tutelage of the state over politics, as represented by the CHP. Therefore, it is natural that the two parties failed to find enough common ground to form a coalition

On 31st July the prestigious French newspaper published a commentary by the freelancing journalist Allan Kaval that is really nothing but PKK propaganda.

Allan Kaval claims that the government is trying to provoke the PKK into war so that it can benefit from an early election decline in HDP votes to recapture its absolute majority and make it back into governing on its own.

Now he, too, is perhaps a talented but not a very ethical and sportsmanlike type. Yet another immature, unripe watermelon, I would say. You cannot pin him down; he first says one thing and then switches to another, changing and evading and distorting all the time while also pleading that he has been misquoted. And unfortunately, he happens to be not in tennis but politics. Whatever is it that he stirs up is paid for in human lives.

Events did not disprove the political “realists.” The CHP pursued a strategy of rejecting all possibilities of cooperation.