The AKP ran the previous election against the peace process. Tayyip denied its existence, repeatedly and never backtracked. Akdogan today was more honest about what happened.
From a moral position the answer must be yes. given, hoever, that Yalcin Akdogan was brutally honest today about why the process ended -- lack of Kurdish support for the unitary executive alla Turca, no.
The AKP is showing itself to be evrything that the Academic Left used to object to in the Kemalists, but with Islam thrown in. (Will that be enough to keep the left rooting for Erdogan, I wonder?)
The quickest way to an AKP majority is to eliminate the HDP as terrorists. The AKP and the MHP (Nationalists) have started that process.
And let's remember,
1. Ankara has ven incensed by PYD success as long as it's existed.
2. Ankara has never believed ISIL to be terrorists, only an expression of Muslim (hey don't believe that it's possible to be other than Sunni and still Muslim) oppression under the Regime Sykes-Picot. Thus they are necessary to Otomania 2.0, which has always been Davutoglu's objective.
So much of this has been warned about for years by Turks who've been dismissed by western acadmics on the left as tools of the generals. I suppose there won't be a mea culpa?
The AKP ran the previous election against the peace process. Tayyip denied its existence, repeatedly and never backtracked. Akdogan today was more honest about what happened.
From a moral position the answer must be yes. given, hoever, that Yalcin Akdogan was brutally honest today about why the process ended -- lack of Kurdish support for the unitary executive alla Turca, no.
The AKP is showing itself to be evrything that the Academic Left used to object to in the Kemalists, but with Islam thrown in. (Will that be enough to keep the left rooting for Erdogan, I wonder?)
The quickest way to an AKP majority is to eliminate the HDP as terrorists. The AKP and the MHP (Nationalists) have started that process.
And let's remember,
1. Ankara has ven incensed by PYD success as long as it's existed.
2. Ankara has never believed ISIL to be terrorists, only an expression of Muslim (hey don't believe that it's possible to be other than Sunni and still Muslim) oppression under the Regime Sykes-Picot. Thus they are necessary to Otomania 2.0, which has always been Davutoglu's objective.
So much of this has been warned about for years by Turks who've been dismissed by western acadmics on the left as tools of the generals. I suppose there won't be a mea culpa?