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Criticism of his party from AKP MKYK member Orhan Miroğlu! A striking ‘Erdoğan’ admission…

AKP MKYK member Orhan Miroğlu has leveled criticisms at his party's recent policies. Pointing out that AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is no longer seen as the primary leader by Kurds, Miroğlu stated, “The Kurds have become alienated from the party.”

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AKP MKYK member Orhan Miroğlu, who once served as Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and was elected as an AKP MP for Mardin in 2015, evaluated a column written by Sabah columnist Mahmut Övür today (May 26), in which Övür stated, “Change in the AK Party is possible with a new political spirit.”

Referring to Övür’s words, “What would accelerate the spread of this spirit to the masses in waves and change the atmosphere is not for those responsible for bringing the party to this point to simply not see their names on lists, but for them to voluntarily withdraw by saying 'I failed,' which would be a good start,” Miroğlu commented as follows:

"This is a nice wish, but finding the mentioned new spirit is not possible through certain actors showing virtuous behavior by taking responsibility for failure and withdrawing—such virtuous behavior is rare in our political tradition, or at least isolated—but rather by struggling for the AK Party to return to its founding political codes.”

MIROĞLU: THE KURDS HAVE BECOME ALIENATED FROM THE PARTY

Pointing out that, according to recent public opinion polls, loyalty to AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dropped significantly in the Eastern and Southeastern provinces, Miroğlu made the statement, “The Kurds have become alienated from the party.”

"PROBLEMS HAVE BECOME THE CHP'S PROGRAM"

Orhan Miroğlu continued his remarks as follows:

"Great reforms were signed, but a significant portion of the problems pointed to by the founding codes could not be solved; on the contrary, these problems left or were removed from the AK Party's political initiative and motivation sphere, and almost became a political program for the CHP."

"WE UNDERSTAND SELAHATTİN, BUT..."

Later, referring to research conducted in the region, Miroğlu said, “For example, let's look at the developments and results regarding the Kurdish issue. The reforms Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made on this issue have been rendered indefensible—or at least the party does not want to defend them,” and made the following assessment:

"The party's vote share in Diyarbakır is around 17%, which is the same as the 2015 election results. In the elections, in Istanbul, where five million Kurds live, and in many other cities, candidates unknown even to Google were put forward as MP and mayoral candidates against the Kurds! Selahattin Demirtaş is the number one leader for Kurds in public opinion polls, and İmamoğlu is second! Erdoğan comes after Mansur Yavaş and Kılıçdaroğlu! Could there be a greater loss of rights or usurpation than this? How will the AK Party meet with the Kurds again without addressing this loss of rights?

We understand Selahattin, but what has İmamoğlu done that a significant portion of Kurds see him as the second-ranked leader? The reason is clear. The AK Party contradicted its own political story and became unable to defend its rights and laws even in cases where it was most justified."

"THE KURDS ARE ALIENATED, THE MIDDLE CLASS HAS MOVED TO DEM"

Stating, “The Kurds have become alienated from the party. The middle classes we empowered have become the basic sociology of DEM in the region; the distance between us has widened. The AK Party's story was a Turkish story that held together and united different political stories, and it was a story that said 'either democracy or nothing',” Miroğlu concluded his words as follows:

"A quarter of a century has passed, and today we are still talking about a new constitution, democracy, and the Kurdish issue; we want to increase prosperity and eradicate poverty. Because of these realities, the codes at the foundation are the essence of the story that brought the party to power, and they have not lost their value today; the problem is that the AK Party has moved away from this value. Those in the party who side with the status quo and act as if nothing has happened, ignoring the situation, are also fiercely opposed to returning to these political codes despite election defeats. They say, 'The call to return to political codes is wrong because Turkey and the world have changed a lot compared to twenty years ago.' True, Turkey and the world have changed a lot. But what else can we use to explain the spirit of this change if not the political codes at the foundation of the AK Party? Did we have a new constitution and not hear about it? Don't we have problems with the judiciary, this and that, and democracy? Despite the thousand-year history of being comrades in arms and pen between Kurds and Turks; in this century where the Kurdish issue has become a global issue, why is the hope of the Kurds in the Middle East not Turkey, but the USA! Should we not be saddened, worried, and questioning at all?”