Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.10
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Turkey will be able to get out of the political crisis that emerged following the parliamentary election in the country, Cemile Bayraktar, Turkish domestic policy expert, leading analyst of YeniSafak newspaper told Trend.
Turkey held parliamentary election June 7, which involved 20 political parties. As a result of the election, the Justice and Development Party garnered 40.9 percent of the vote, while the Republican People's Party (CHP) gained 25 percent; aside from that the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) got 16.3 percent, and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) garnered 13.1 percent of the vote.
The final meeting on creating a coalition government was held in Turkey on Aug. 13 between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. However, the parties failed to reach an agreement. Following this, Turkish prime minister said the country will hold repeated parliamentary election.
Cemile Bayraktar said the ongoing developments in Turkey have political and economic reasons.
One of these reasons is that in recent years, Ankara has pursued active energy policy to become the region's energy hub, according to the expert. He added that another problem of the region is generally related to the energy sphere, in particular, the oil reserve in Northern Iraq.
"No one had doubts that after resolving the Kurdish problem, Iraqi oil was supposed to be delivered to world markets through Turkey which supports close relations with Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq," said the expert.
"Following this, the West would have become fully dependent on Ankara which doesn't meet the interests of some political circles," she added.
For the present, it is unknown which developments will take place in Turkey before the repeated parliamentary election, said Bayraktar, adding that nevertheless, the main problems of Ankara are the foreign forces which play an important role in destabilizing the situation in the country.
"Today, Turkey's main problem is the opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) and the movement of Fethullah Gulen [Islamic public figure currently residing in the US]," the expert added.
Bayraktar said that namely the People's Republican Party has close ties to various leftist illegal structures which are supported by some Turkish media outlets as well.
Talking about the activity of some leftist terrorist organizations, including Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Bayraktar didn't rule out Iran's certain role in this regard, since Turkish authorities temporarily closed borders with this country Sept.9.
Edited by SI
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