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Every alliance has an objective. In Turkey’s presidential elections last week, the odd alliance between the Republican People’s Party (CHP), which describes itself as center-right, and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), which represents Turkish nationalism, was aimed at stopping Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ascent to the country’s top post. The two opposition parties were defeated — again.
On Aug. 10, Erdogan became Turkey’s first popularly elected president. Acquiescing to their Sisyphean fate, the CHP and the MHP began again to roll the boulder up the hill, having watched it roll down in every election since 2002. By doing so, they are sealing their own bitter eternity, with the boulder doomed to roll back down again.
