Is Ak Party cornered by accusations of mismanagement, corruption and fraud?

All along the political turbulence Turkey has been going through for the last few weeks, Turks have been witnessing dirty affairs and incidents beyond grasp of logic, as far as a country with “advanced democracy” and an administration which has adopted fight against corruption as it cause of existence, is concerned.

Prime Minister Erdoğan and his friends are known to take advantage of every opportunity they have, to confirm over and over again that they would never allow corruption and this is their most important motto.

However, right after huge corruption claims in which sons of some ministers were involved have ere made public, the approach the head of government and his friends have displayed is considered to be nowhere near satisfactory, to be on the contrary to their commitment so far.

In fact, there are now many who believe that “AK Party shifts the blame, when thing get tough”. To be more clear, people have started thinking that AK Party is showing a tendency to look for a scapegoat whenever it feels cornered by accusations of mismanagement, corruption or fraud rather than calling people involved in said accusations to account for their misbehavior.

A solid example was experienced when the governing party went into a rage and chose others to blame for the scandal, rather than trying to clear the way for a swift and proper investigation of the claims.

The situation has been increasingly worsening as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan insists not to refrain from calling the corruption investigation a “dirty operation against the government and Turkey” and claiming that the probe has been orchestrated by a “parallel state” and a “gang within the state,” implying the Hizmet movement said to be inspired by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Furthermore and to be even more critical the head of the government also claims “foreign powers” were involved in the operation.

The fact is the harder the administration pushes to try to cover the truth and thus get out of this unfavorable situation, the worse it is going to be for them – as well as Turkey’s economy and all – as things have come to a point where “demon has come out of the bottle” – a Turkish saying meaning it will not be possible to put it in again.

30.12.2013
Editor