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Turkish Press Review |
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The CHP’s calculations
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The Republican People’s Party (CHP), looking at the near future, is no doubt making the following calculation: If it succeeds at interrupting or stopping the democratic initiative process in Turkey, the political vacuum that might emerge in the ensuing chaos would actually produce more CHP supporters.
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In other words, if the CHP is able to depict demands for democratization as something to be feared it will be able to find itself new factions of voters by mobilizing tendencies towards authoritarianism. But this is a calculation as dangerous as it is incorrect. To wit, CHP leader Deniz Baykal, who left Parliament during its session on the democratic initiative, doesn’t appear to have anything substantial to say regarding either the Kurdish problem, or the questions surrounding the Turkish Alevi community. Taking the larger picture into consideration, this means that the CHP no longer possess the means to create any realistic arena or politics for itself on these questions.
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17 November 2009, Tuesday
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STAR NASUHİ GÜNGÖR
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