10 October 2009 / SABAH ERGİN ARDIÇ,
And so they bark at us, “You can't write about that; you can't write about that!” There is no internal democracy in the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), so you can't write about that! Now, why is it that I can't supposedly write?
Is the AK Party my father's own party? Ok, here we go, let me write this: There is no internal democracy within the ranks of the AK Party. But let me ask on the tail of that: So in which party is there internal democracy? On the same day, there was a Democratic Society Party (DTP) congress, and Ahmet Türk was once again elected president of that party. Did that not surprise you? I didn't read anything criticizing this. And what about the Republican People's Party (CHP)? Is it not and has it not always been a “single man's dictatorship”? Or was the CHP a garden of democracy during the eras of Atatürk and Inönü? Ah, I guess that means we should be questioning the “system,” not just protecting our own party while striking at the other. But no, don't do this, just spend your time opposing every kind of initiative that gets proposed, then yell a bit about how the ruling party has no internal democracy.
