Let’s have a look at the important developments collided with the violent atmosphere which is surrounded by chauvinistic and dictatorial behaviours and speeches of Tayyip Erdoğan starting from the 1st of May the prohibition of Taksim.

What is the reason that Tayyip Erdogan is acting so unstable? Because the USA didn’t give him what he wanted? Because he couldn’t make things right with Fethullah Gulen? Or he has realized that he wouldn’t get away so easily from the mess in Syria he has encountered. Maybe it’s the economy which is on the knife’s edge. Or the fact that he has to do something really matters about the Kurdish problem. Is it that the people on the streets are not silent, the strikes, struggles for rights or riots and resistences which stands up for environment and life are increasing. Under these circumstances he couldnt manage the tensions in his own government and being forced to diplomacy of purifying the “right” and using the violence. Maybe all of them…
He came back from his visit from the USA with disappointment
While Tayyip Erdogan was going to the USA in 14th of May, he performed pretentious statements that would involve an international intervention against Bashar Assad in Syria hoping that it would bring him down. Just before his visit he mentioned his requests involving military intervention and prohibition to the flights in Syria, couldn’t get what he wanted from the press conference, eventually seemed to changed his mind about his previous statements.
Erdogan before Obama:

” It had been unable to see any conclusions from the 1st Geneva Conference, and the 2nd looks like finding excuses not to do what is necessary. We will look for further solutions.The structure of the United Unions Security Council lets us to take further improvements like this. Russia and China are preventing the improvements with their behaviours. Despite they say they are not the lawyers of Bashar, they do not take any positive steps. We will continue our process with the countries who look more possitive in this matter.”
Erdogan after Obama:
Following the Geneva Conferences it is extremely important that China and Russia are involved in this case. We do care about this as the members of United Unions Security Council. Their colloborations would accelerate the process.

In US they gave homeworks to Erdogan like dealing with the jihadists who are members Al-Nusra which are also linked to Al Kaida gained base in the region thanks to the efforts of AKP.
Even their colloborators in media couldn’t make things right for AKP. Even Erdogan’s previous press consultant Akif Beki reluctantly wrote an article that was complaining about Ahmet Davutoglu.

And Al Nusra Operation
While the media of AKP was pressing and broadcasting news like “it’s the end of Assad, he is ruined”, Assad was having a conflict with Israel trusting the military support he found from Russia.

In Syria PDY was resisting against Jihadists and the games of AKP-KDP successfully and expressing the strong “North Syria” fact which would be under control of KCK.
In the middle of the quarrels about “who is using the chemical warfare, who is the real threat in Turkey” there had been an operation in a place which was used by Al Nusra, in 30th of May by the police and 2 kilos of Sarin Gas was found.
The facts that the Jihadists who were frequently defended by AKP were now targetted and it was performed by the police who had been controlled by Fethullah Gulen Movement, the operations was succeeded in Adana where it had been known that many operations about Syria was held by international intelligence associations including CIA. These were never mentioned by the media and these news were passed off.

The things with Fethullah Gulen haven’t been right.
While he was going to the USA he was asked if he would see Fethullah Gulen and he answered that it was impossible to refuse that opportunity. However he was never invited, so he had to send Bulent Arinc to Gulen’s side.

When Arinc came back to Turkey he spoke against the Presidential system which had been praised by Erdogan and he sounded like one of the people from Gulen Movement. Also President Abdullah Gul also said that it was too late for that kind of modification in constitution.
In Gulen Movement newspapers and also in Taraf the news criticizing Erdogan started to increase. The things came to a place even the Vakit Newspaper published articles criticizing Erdogan about Taksim Gezi Park protests instead of resistence.
Ertugrul Gunay started to post tweets on Twitter against Erdogan.

The Knife’s Edge on the Economy
The currency of Dollar has extended 1.88. The Stock Market has decreased to the point of 85.000. If the USA doesn’t go for an expand on money, the financial failures of AKP would be impossible to repair.

It’s the Time That AKP Takes a Step for the Kurdish Problem
The Kurdish People who have been trying to complete the withdrawal process in a timely manner according to the negotiations with AKP with PKK, has prevented the efforts of AKP which focused on stalling them till the elections. There have been various initiatives about public democratic solutions. AKP has to take a step. One way or another.
Under these circumstances it’s very natural that Tayyip Erdogan is very unstable.
However while the spirit of public resistence has been risen up would the unbalanced violence and reactionism cement the place of the government or puts it in danger? The determination of the people who have been surrounded by the symbol of Park Gezi, resisting against the politics of AKP which consists of fascism and the politics against environment and labor, would tell us the answer of this question.

31 May 2013

Translator: Bahadır Yenici