20 July 2009 / STAR MAHİR KAYNAK,
The absence of an opposition for which the public can vote when its complaints about the government increase is shown as one of the biggest advantages of the governing party.
In addition, it can be seen that the opposition makes a big deal about a small detail and attacks the ruling party over this issue. If an opposition party fails to produce different solutions to the country's problems and it displays its opposition in a polemical style, then this means there is nothing wrong with the ruling party determining the direction of the country the way it wants. For instance, is there any answer to this question: If an opposition party in Turkey comes to power, what kind of changes will it make in the economic policies of the country? If you look at their statements, they say they will prevent corruption and the government's supporters becoming rich, but this does not mean that they will make changes in economic policy. The ambiguity over the opposition's understanding of secularism still continues. While defending both secularism and freedom of religion, they do not think about eliminating the conflicting sides of these two. We also do not know what the opposition's solution to the ethnicity problem in Turkey would be.
