TURKPULSE No:84TURKISH
ELECTIONS – WHO WILL BE THE FINAL WINNER?
TURKPULSE No:84TURKISH
ELECTIONS – WHO WILL BE THE FINAL WINNER?
The November 3rd general elections were a sweeping victory for the AK Party, which scooped a two-thirds majority in parliament with a one-third backing of over 31 million valid votes. There was a handsome turnout of voters at the elections (nearly 80%), while 45% of the votes remained unrepresented in Parliament. Nevertheless, it was a fair, democratic election with a landslide victory for Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s moderate Islamic AK Party. These elections brought to fruition Washington’s 3-4 decades of subversive activities in Turkey in order to use religion as a kind of secret organisation patterned after freemasonry. The majority of Turkish people were clearly victims of the lack of public knowledge about the whole thing, but it does not follow that the victor, the United States, will be the final winner.
TURKPULSE No:85
CYPRUS
AGREEMENT, IS IT ROUND THE CORNER?
The Kofi Annan plan for a solution for the Cyprus problem is clearly the work of American judicial experts, but contrary to the enormous disappointments Turkey has suffered from American diplomacy in recent years, especially in the aftermath of the Gulf war, it seems it is not too prejudicial against Turkey. President Denktas and former PM Ecevit, along with his colleagues do not think so, but at the moment they are in the minority. Most people in Turkey believe that the time has come for a breakthrough on Cyprus and the latest plan may constitute a good basis for a fair solution provided that certain improvements are made on land concessions and the “traps” that the sceptics claim exist therein. Even though this was initially the predominant feeling among the people including Pulse, with the explanations of neutral experts the pendulum has begun to swing the other way. It is especially critical for Tayyip Erdogan whose Foreign Minister, Yasar Yakis, is now in New York having consultations with Denktas. Will Erdogan, in his struggle to become Prime Minister with the West’s help, understand the justified Turkish anxieties about the Annan plan and stop repeating certain public statements prejudicial to Turkey’s security or will he persist in the wrong and, in pleasing the West, totally justify the anxieties of Turkish authorities about his past?