4 February 2010 / FEHMİ KORU YENİ ŞAFAK,
“Compromise” is not generally a concept we use to describe the benefits that come to those unable to reach compromise... One thing is definite, and that is that we need to find a formula to break this pattern of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) rejecting every suggestion that comes from the ruling administration in the name of “searching for compromise.”
Until the assassination of Uğur Mumcu (in January of 1993), Deniz Baykal and his political counterparts made an effort to position their party as a social democratic, or leftist, one. They viewed the continuing efforts to democratize Turkey as efforts well worth the struggle. To this end, they prepared a bill aimed at amending the Constitution in 1993. It was a text that had no “preamble. ”It was a text which stressed the importance of rights and freedoms, and which, with a few changes, could have been easily embraced by many. And in fact, that important text, which came from the CHP in the wake of Mumcu’s assassination but was then forgotten by the CHP once it switched paths, could actually bring about some widespread compromise. After all, why not?
