By The Daily Journalist.
The president of Turkey has expressed Thursday his first speech after a period of unsettling silence after the legislative elections last Sunday.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a hearing dominated by a call to the domestic dialogue and renewed attacks on the West. After the mandatory references to the official ceremony, the closing of substantial national scholarship program, Erdogan focused his words in the last election.
In them, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he led until 2014, lost its absolute majority flaunted since 2002. “They should be egos set aside and form a government as soon as possible,” he declared, in an unambiguous message that does not have in mind the scenario of early elections but that of a coalition executive.
Erdogan said that despite the parliamentary arithmetic “Turkey can not remain without government.” In the last hours it has been known that Erdogan met with Deniz Baykal, next prime minister and veteran nationalist leader of the social democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP), the second most voted list.
At the end of the meeting, Baykal said that all options are on the table to form the next executive. For his part, Prime Minister Davutoglu launched a poison dart Wednesday in a television interview, saying that talks with Baykal would lead to “not to form coalition, because that is up to the parties.”
Davutoglu also stressed that “people do not want the presidential system” that the president wants to get the executive.
International criticism
The post-election hangover has been accompanied by a sharp fall in the Turkish lira against the dollar and the euro, the Turkish central bank on Monday corrected urgently a skirmish with at least four people in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
That has raised fears of a major crisis. “With God’s help, those who dream of chaos in Turkey will be shocked,” said the President, who took the opportunity to return to viciously attack the international media for their criticism of the head of state.
Erdogan has dismissed as “ugly” these criticisms. “If there are, thank God, is something we do well.”
In a strange trance speech, Erdogan has continued lashing out against the “global system” -the doctrine embraces liberal AKP for causing the income gap in the countrie which came the scholarship students, most from former Soviet republics of Turkic culture.
Finally, Erdogan has accused the West of “favoring” the Syrian Kurdish party PYD and the armed group PKK Terrorism Working as Turkey, EU and US-to “bombard Arabs and Turkmen in Tel Abyad”, in northern Syria.
Several thousand refugees have arrived in recent days in southern Turkey fleeing the situation in the area of Tel Abyad. Kurdish and Arab forces, supported from the air by the international coalition anti IS, have launched an offensive to wrest Tel Abyad the armed group Islamic Jihad State, considered one of the greatest threats to the world today.
One detail that Erdogan has chosen to ignore this Thursday.
