Turkey may suffer a serious crisis in its domestic affairs

PanARMENIAN.Net - The higher educational institutions and the army, which is the stronghold of the Kemals in the country, share the same fear with the DNP. The so called Kemalists are the 8 members (out of 11 members) of the Constitutional Court, which cause serious problems for the leading Justice and Development Party and for the President and the Prime-Minister of the country. Soon the Constitutional Court will start the consideration of the suit of the General Public Prosecutor on the ban over AKR, which will indeed lead the country to a serious political crisis. According to Erdoghan, the decision made by the Constitutional Court is "lame". "The Court must find out the reasons of making such a decision, as well as the motives which led to the revision of amendments of the Constitution of the country," said Erdoghan in the parliament. The most interesting thing in Erdoghan's speech is that the very Constitution does not allow the Islamists to be in power. On the other hand it must be mentioned that the overwhelming majority of the population of the country practices Islam and it is the majority that voted for the going back to the values of the Ottoman Empire.

The army and the authorities of the Turkish institutes of higher education have rather grounded fears regarding the expansion of Islam and the "destiny of Iran" fated for Turkey in the result of this expansion. More than 70 years, Turkey has tried to integrate into the secular form of the government, but the dominance of the Islamists has never been as strong and threatening as it is now. Let's not forget that the current president of the country Abdullah Gul was elected with the third attempt and without the Constitutional majority of the AKR in the parliament, nobody knows when what lead the history would take.

Basically, AKR may begin a special parliamentary election and most probably will be able to win the election. Then one may say with more certainty that Erdoghan has totally changed Turkey to Islam and has started the construction of the new Ottoman Empire. Most likely this is the only aim of the Islamists. Yet, there is one very important aspect, which must not be ignored. The Turkish army, according to Ataturk, is the guarantor of the Constitution and it will carry on up to the end. Regardless all the reforms and strivings to integrate into the EU, Ankara's domestic policy is still defined by the Turkish Joint Staff. The Joint Staff is the one to decide what to do and what relations to have with Armenia and other countries of the South Caucasus. After all, the Joint Staff is going to decide whether Turkey is integrated into the European Union or not. With the Islamists, the viewpoints of the military staggered, and now with the help of the Constitutional Court they want to turn the situation to their favor. It has worked out so far… After all, there is the tested mechanism of the military overturn and Erdoghan knows the scenario of the development of the events better than anyone else; he has already been in prison for his viewpoints.

As for Armenia, it makes no different Armenia, since no government of Turkey, be it secular or Islamic, will ever have enough courage to recognize the history and start a dialogue. Nobody knows when the Turkish society will be ready for it. It should be repeated that the thing is not in the "brotherly" Azerbaijan or in the Nagorno-Karabakh. The thing is in the recognition of the borders and the Armenian Genocide. But neither of these issues is acceptable by Ankara. All that Armenian has to do now is to wait and see what happens. Meanwhile one should not forget the argument that Armenia limits the complete influence of Turkey on the countries of South Caucasus.