Ankara is at an impasse as a result of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and opposition parties’ firm, unbridgeable politics of social division. The government presents itself as being certain that it is totally right on all things considered, and that the opposition is totally wrong.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even accuses the opposition of engaging with “terrorist organizations.” The Nationalist Action Party “MHP acted together with the terrorist organizations in the 2010 [local election] and got hugely defeated,” the prime minister said on June 3 at his party’s regular parliamentary group meeting.
