A lot of
academicians, politicians, writers and ordinary citizens think that the process
of making a new constitutiton for Turkey has ended up with failure. Even though
there are still some people who are optimistic for this situation. I can’t
foresee whether this process will end up successfully or not, but it is
not very surprising that Turkish
political parties can’t come to terms for Turkey’s this essential problem. It
is very obvious that for solving Turkey’s chronic problems in a
cooperative way, parties are generally unsuccesfull.
The five effective
party which has an important impact on Turkey’s political system have some
common wrong policies. Basically, parties in a democratic country should serve
for an essential purpose; ‘’they should represent the different groups in a country and meet these groups’ logical
demands, should devolope the solidarity between these groups and should find a
middle ground for disputes between these groups.’’Unfortunately as the other
states in the World , Turkey’s political parties generally can’t achieve this
aim. Maybe my expectations about political parties in Turkey are very
idealistic but I believe that at least they can make an effort to make real
these targets.
If Turkish
parties have the principles and policies to make real these targets, they can
contribute to development of democracy, equality and solidarity in Turkey. Also
by doing this, they can build a common foreign policy attitude, so they can
have more strong voice in the international system. Also by reaching common grounds
for disputes among them, they can transfer their energy, time and money to
economic and technical devolopments . Actually, the worst part is that the
polarization and high tension between political parties reflect the party bases
and this problem can lead to even a civil war. What I intend to say is that the
high tensions, unsolvable problems and polarization among Turkish political
parties is really harmful for Turkey’s profits and future.
Unfortunately,
the dose of tension among Turkish political parties is almost constantly very
high. Turkish Parties generally make
propagandas to the detriment of other parties(especially against ruling party). They generally try to
show other parties as big threats for Turkey’s profits. Even they often declare
other parties or politicians as traitors. I determine some reasons for Turkish parties’
these devastating attitudes:
Firstly;
sometimes some parties put their parties’ profits in front of Turkey’s profits.
Actually, parties should be seen as means to serve for our country. However,parties
can be seen as the main purpose by some
party members. Sometimes parties take decisions which are suitable for their
party’s profit but not for Turkey’s. They generally do this for not to
capitulate from their principles and policies(even though this decision damage
the Turkey’s goodness).
Also, I think
that there are some taboos of Turkish political parties. Breaking down their
prejudices is very difficult for them.They are generally eager to make politics
over their diversities. They don’t want to see their common sides. Basically,they
do this to stay alive. Because,If they leave their lines, their party
ıdentifications can decline. I mean,every party starts its political life with
an ideology and if it move away from its ideology and party ID, it can lose its
party base and a party which don’t have a strong party base can’t survive. Even
though they don’t want to lose their party bases, for some parties the size of
their party base can not be enough for being the party in power .For today’s
Turkey median voter theorem is valid.The reason why AKP still is the party in power can be explained by this
theorem besides some other explanations.
I can mention about some other reasons why the
Turkish parties don’t implement constructive policies. I think Turkey’s
political culture which comes from old times is also effective for this
situation. Lastly,I believe that politicians and party bases don’t try to do
self criticism for their parties.The culture of construcrive criticism among
parties and within parties is really weak in Turkey. At this point,I believe
that parties should encourage their members, party bases and opposition groups to
criticise constructivelly.
If parties want to
develop our country in every area, they should firstly learn how to reach
political consensus.They should try to increase collaboration among them.If
they don’t, we will have to wait for a long time to have a new civil
constitution, to reach an end for resolution process and for other
democratization processes…
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