Yazarlar

Professional, cold-blooded liar. An operational liar, devoid of all honesty and integrity, who has deliberately folded and shelved his conscience. A liar beaming all his articles abroad for the sole purpose of smearing Turkey before the whole world, all the time staring us in the eye as he goes about his mission of twisting the truth to blacken the whites and whiten the blacks… (Just who, did you say? Oh, come on. I am not talking about anybody in particular. There may actually be quite a few of them, but how would I know? In any case, this spot has nothing to do with the rest of my article. I am just talking to myself, addressing thin air.)

When Turkey’s political system was opened to all political ideologies in the 1960s, there were elements from the Republic’s early years that leftists could latch onto in order to provide appropriate Kemalist coloring for their own political rhetoric. Furthermore, the brand of Marxism-Leninism which became more popular in a still largely agricultural Turkey during the 1960s and 70s was not the relatively staid Soviet Stalinist interpretation, but rather varieties of Maoist revolutionism, peasantism and Third Worldism. In sum, nationalism with an anti-imperialist twist (or perhaps disguised as anti-imperialism) has always been a key element of Turkish leftist discourse.

Davutoğlu, her şeyden önce iyi bir insan. Siyasi rakiplerinde bile saygı duygusu uyandıran bir başbakan. Nitekim kendisinden bekleneceği gibi asil ve zarif bir veda mesajı verdi ve önümüzdeki kongrede aday olmayacağını açıkladı.

Siyasi aktörlerin ve hükümeti destekleyen kimi basının söylemlerine baktığınızda, bugün belirgin bir daralma, dışlama ve düşmanlaştırmanın hâkim olduğunu görüyoruz. Hükümet yanlısı basında kraldan çok kralcı tutumların belirmesi ciddiyetsizliğe ve savrulmaya işaret ediyor.

Ben, bu kırılmanın demokratik inşaya hizmet etmeyeceği, AKP ve ülke için tehlike yarattığı düşüncesindeyim.