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The Cypress problem has set different forces of the regime against each others. The proposal, which the government conveyed to the EU Commission concerning Cypress, let to new conflicts between the different forces of the fascist dictatorship and these forces explained how they see the future of Turkey.
Both the Chief of the General Staff, Y. Buyukanit and the president of the Republic, A. N. Sezer seemed to be quiet angry that the government told the EU Commission without asking them that they will open one airport and one seaport for the use of the Greek part of Cypress, because they both made statements immediately after the proposal had been announced. Meanwhile the Chief of the General Staff said "I got to new it from television", the president said "they did not inform me neither directly nor indirectly." The rest is known. The theater of accusation in the media begun: "Do we have to inform you, we did inform you, you did not inform us".
That the Prime Minister did not inform the president and the Chief of the General Staff when they came together on the occasion of the assembly of the "National Committee" in the palace of Cankaya on that day (December 14, 2006) when the spokesman of the Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the proposal of Turkey, means nothing else but the message: "Even if it is about topics, which are of vital importance for Turkey, we, as the government are determining the policy of Turkey, we do not have to ask for your opinion." The most important thing was the reaction taken in the moment of receiving this message. Both the president and the Chief of the General Staff were not late in showing the expected reaction. The not-informing and the reaction showed that until now they are playing with their cards on the table. The relations between these 3 institutions on the top of the time were almost nil. The Front-building of the president and the General Staff on one side and the Minister and president of parliament on the other side will go on and deepen even more up to the presidential elections.
The war for Cankaya (seat of the President) has been declared open with the problem of Cypress. The AKP and TUSIAD are of the opinion that through the concession to the EU concerning Cypress, on which it insists, apparently a "big" advantage would be achieved, which means the biggest obstacle before the EU-membership would be put aside. The army, taking front on the opposite side (on which also the president and the CHP ) parts from the point of view of Cypress being a "national" matter and of strategic importance for Turkey and therefore it acts aggressively against the policy of the government and TUSIAD. This struggle going on within the regime is a certain stage of the phase which will continue up to the presidential elections. Both sides are preparing for these elections, which will take place in April 2007, since now. The Army, the president and the other forces claim to be "the guards of the republic" consider a president coming from the ranks of the AKP as a danger for the future of the republic. Actually, the president is not a decisive institution for determining the policy of the bourgeoisie, but his symbolic value is very high for the Kemalists. Fort his reason, they consider the loss of this institution as a destabilization of the fundaments of the regime. Therefore, they are saying for a long time that the office-holding Prime Minister cannot be candidate for the presidency of the republic and in order to impede this, the president of the republic, Sezer, even proposes early elections. All these developments, the battles of words and treats show that the forces of the regime are focusing on the presidential elections and that these elections will redefine the balance of power between the forces of the regime. The army, which considers itself responsible for the future of Turkey, announces at any opportunity that it will take new "fine measures" against all developments which could weaken its own position, which distance it from the apparatus of political decisions and are "directed against the fundaments of the republic. The army, which forced the Erbakan-Ciller government on February 28, 1996 to resign and threatened by saying that they will set the tanks in motion when they will no go by their own, and which achieved the wanted results by doing so, shows today openly that it will do the same again. In this "struggle of enemies", the "laical Republic" and declaring nearly every political topic as "national matter" are the only weapons of the army.
The front positions of the inner forces of the regime are very obvious.
 

 

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The Cypress problem has set different forces of the regime against each others. The proposal, which the government conveyed to the EU Commission concerning Cypress, let to new conflicts between the different forces of the fascist dictatorship and these forces explained how they see the future of Turkey.
Both the Chief of the General Staff, Y. Buyukanit and the president of the Republic, A. N. Sezer seemed to be quiet angry that the government told the EU Commission without asking them that they will open one airport and one seaport for the use of the Greek part of Cypress, because they both made statements immediately after the proposal had been announced. Meanwhile the Chief of the General Staff said "I got to new it from television", the president said "they did not inform me neither directly nor indirectly." The rest is known. The theater of accusation in the media begun: "Do we have to inform you, we did inform you, you did not inform us".
That the Prime Minister did not inform the president and the Chief of the General Staff when they came together on the occasion of the assembly of the "National Committee" in the palace of Cankaya on that day (December 14, 2006) when the spokesman of the Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the proposal of Turkey, means nothing else but the message: "Even if it is about topics, which are of vital importance for Turkey, we, as the government are determining the policy of Turkey, we do not have to ask for your opinion." The most important thing was the reaction taken in the moment of receiving this message. Both the president and the Chief of the General Staff were not late in showing the expected reaction. The not-informing and the reaction showed that until now they are playing with their cards on the table. The relations between these 3 institutions on the top of the time were almost nil. The Front-building of the president and the General Staff on one side and the Minister and president of parliament on the other side will go on and deepen even more up to the presidential elections.
The war for Cankaya (seat of the President) has been declared open with the problem of Cypress. The AKP and TUSIAD are of the opinion that through the concession to the EU concerning Cypress, on which it insists, apparently a "big" advantage would be achieved, which means the biggest obstacle before the EU-membership would be put aside. The army, taking front on the opposite side (on which also the president and the CHP ) parts from the point of view of Cypress being a "national" matter and of strategic importance for Turkey and therefore it acts aggressively against the policy of the government and TUSIAD. This struggle going on within the regime is a certain stage of the phase which will continue up to the presidential elections. Both sides are preparing for these elections, which will take place in April 2007, since now. The Army, the president and the other forces claim to be "the guards of the republic" consider a president coming from the ranks of the AKP as a danger for the future of the republic. Actually, the president is not a decisive institution for determining the policy of the bourgeoisie, but his symbolic value is very high for the Kemalists. Fort his reason, they consider the loss of this institution as a destabilization of the fundaments of the regime. Therefore, they are saying for a long time that the office-holding Prime Minister cannot be candidate for the presidency of the republic and in order to impede this, the president of the republic, Sezer, even proposes early elections. All these developments, the battles of words and treats show that the forces of the regime are focusing on the presidential elections and that these elections will redefine the balance of power between the forces of the regime. The army, which considers itself responsible for the future of Turkey, announces at any opportunity that it will take new "fine measures" against all developments which could weaken its own position, which distance it from the apparatus of political decisions and are "directed against the fundaments of the republic. The army, which forced the Erbakan-Ciller government on February 28, 1996 to resign and threatened by saying that they will set the tanks in motion when they will no go by their own, and which achieved the wanted results by doing so, shows today openly that it will do the same again. In this "struggle of enemies", the "laical Republic" and declaring nearly every political topic as "national matter" are the only weapons of the army.
The front positions of the inner forces of the regime are very obvious.