Will The Upcoming Turkish Government Be Secular?
With 6 weeks left until Turkey’s election, the evidence is currently in favor of Erdogan’s rival.
Usually, the scene of political and party competitions in Turkey contains surprising and unpredictable events. But now the Justice and Development Party has taken a step down the path of decline right when the Republic of Turkey has entered its 100th anniversary and the ruling party has been in power for 21 years.
The economic crisis, the ineffectiveness of Erdogan’s policies, inflation and unemployment, the heavy financial consequences of the recent earthquake in Marash, the abandonment of meritocracy, and the tendency of some of the leaders and influential families of the ruling party to rent luxury and wealth have discouraged a significant part of Islamists. and caused Erdogan’s votes to drop. But on the other hand, the situation is much better for Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the People’s Republic Party and Erdogan’s main rival.
Field polls indicate that the situation is currently in favor of Erdoğan’s rival. Perhaps this is the reason why Erdogan attacks Kılıçdaroğlu with all his media and propaganda power and introduces him as an enemy of prayer, prayer, and religion.
The leader of the People’s Republic Party is trying to bring Yadgar Atatürk’s party back to power after a long break, but he is forced to seek help from the conservatives to achieve such a great goal. He is the leader of a coalition whose two parties, the Democrats and Saadat, are clearly Islamist, and the parties of Babajan, Davutoglu and Aksner, not only have no angle with religion and conservatism, but are aligned with it.
Two religious blunders of Kilicdaroglu in two days
The leader of the People’s Republic Party is standing next to some of his female supporters in a photo that was published in the media supporting the Justice and Development Party. They are in the same house and Klichdaroglu is wearing shoes in the photo, as is the custom of some Turkish families who allow guests to enter the house with shoes on. Everyone is standing on the carpet, but Klichdaroglu doesn’t pay attention to his feet and doesn’t know that he is standing on a small rug. The publication of this photo brought many negative reactions and Erdogan’s supporters considered the work of the rival candidate as an insult to the sacred and a direct attack on religious and Islamic values.
To put an end to this news, the leader of the People’s Republic Party decided to officially apologize and express regret in a public speech. He deliberately chose the Saadat Islamist Party building to announce his apology. The same party that was founded by the students of the late Erbakan and its leader Temel Karameloglu is also one of the 6 leaders of Erdoğan’s opposition coalition.
In his speech, Kılıçdaroğlu declared that he did not understand what was under his feet and apologized and expressed regret for this unwanted action. But only a few minutes later, he committed another religious blunder and said: “Be sure that the Akparti government and Erdogan are leaving.” I want to use the famous words of the late Arbakan. He always said: Truth comes and falsehood disappears. We have always remembered this famous saying of his.”
