'Sometimes NATO ally' Turkey creating Islamist hardliner Party voting list. (TZ).
#Turkey's ruling party AKP candidates' list for upcoming elections are full of political Islamists, hard-liners, & pro-Iranian figures
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 7, 2015
“Ongoing preparatory work on the candidate list at AK Party headquarters is nothing more than [an exercise in] going through the motions to stay in line with the law,” Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a former leading AK Party figure, told Today's Zaman, maintaining that the real list is being drawn up at the presidential palace by Erdoğan.
Political parties running in the parliamentary elections are required to submit their individual lists of candidates stating who will run for deputy positions on their party's tickets to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) by the end of work time on April 7.
Ömer Şahin, a columnist for the Meydan daily, also believes Erdoğan will have the final say on the ruling party's list. If Erdoğan is against a candidate favored by Davutoğlu, then that candidate would have no chance to run for a deputy position on the ruling party ticket, Şahin said in his column on Monday. But he believes it would not be at all possible for Davutoğlu to oppose the candidacy of a person favored by Erdoğan.
It is expected that the main criteria in the selection of candidates who will run on the ruling party's ticket will be loyalty to the party, but particularly to Erdoğan. People from the ruling party say the candidates will be selected among those who are loyal to Erdoğan, Şahin said.
Erdoğan, nicknamed as “chief” in the AK Party, headed AK party governments and the party for more than 11 years before being elected president in August last year.
“A team of candidates, mostly composed of young people, who would bow [to Erdoğan], who would not question, but just accept what is said is being formed. … It is the candidate list of the presidential palace which is being prepared rather than a list of names who would represent people,” said Fırat, who resigned from his posts in the party at the end of 2008.
To ensure complete submission to the “chief” on the part of the chosen deputy candidates, a high number of current ruling party deputies will be eliminated, analysts agree. Hmmmm.......The 'Dictator' is cementing his base. Read the full story here.
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#Turkey Intel agency vetted ruling political party candidates. Unusual practice. Islamists turned Turkey into partisan state
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 8, 2015
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