The political competition in the 2023 Turkish elections is coming to an end and the day of decision is approaching, and it is a remarkable election in all its details, as it has repercussions that are not hidden and there is a lot of talk about this aspect, and we will not focus on it in this article, but we will focus on its implications and repercussions - especially the positive ones - on more than one level.
There is no doubt that the coup attempt in July 2016 had a profound impact on the Turkish political conscience, and in reshaping the political scene in it, in addition to the transition to the presidential system and the trend towards political alliances between several parties, and this triad stands behind what we see of frantic competitions in the political scene, which are not free in some aspects and motives of conflict over identity and concern for it, which seem to be unresolved concerns, and impose to a large extent their rhythm on political aspirants and her covetous.
In recent years, very different axes have prevailed in the internal political discourse, and tendencies have emerged that stand on the contrary and raise the voices of each of them, and each of them has its current and carriers and those who promote it and walk it in all parts of Turkish society, and a loud right-wing voice has emerged in all currents to the point of withdrawing from the ancient parties to establish new parties that take a radical and rigid face in reaction to the convergent performance of the leaders of those ancient parties.
On the side of the People's Alliance, the poles of the conservative and nationalist currents stand hand in hand in a political path that exchanges support, and from the mantle of the nationalist movement, the Good Party came out to present a stronger nationalist discourse, and take harder positions that make it entrenched in a nationalist vision that is almost single-sighted, as well as in the conservative current, as the Future and Democracy and Progress Parties emerged, as well as the Al-Balad Party emerged from the womb of the Republican People's Party with a rigid secular background, and other parties were formed, and in the face of it, a cross-ideological alliance, so to speak, crystallized, and seeks Both appear to be so, and to show themselves as a visionary programmatic alliance with a tangible national horizon.
Fund accounts regulate positions
With the approach of the elections, the Fund's calculations began to regulate everyone's positions, hence the majority of the political scene with its two main parties and alliances (the People's and the Public Alliances), where we see that their positions are gradually moving to the arena of national convergence, so to speak, or to rehabilitate the various currents of the people and their ethnic, ideological and political spectrums.
Both alliances have increased the number of their allies, placing next to their poles parties that do not resemble them in the ideological standpoint, but he chose to share with them the orientation of various segments and currents, and race to give them reassurances, and renew appreciation, consideration and respect for them as they are and where they are, and promise them what strengthens them as they are, and does not promise to transfer them to what they do not want, and endorses them for their cultural, ethnic, intellectual and ideological distinction, but within a comprehensive framework, which is the national denominator, and here democracy and the race to win votes are given to the political struggle over it. It has a national dimension, and imposes it on Turkish political life in an almost unprecedented way.
Everyone flirts with everyone with an unprecedented political spin, except for some political voices that go to their rigid incubator and center around it, and address it alone, which are voices that do not bet on winning as much as they bet on showing (sincerity) to the idea and premises and showing solidity in adhering to it.
In the context of the serious race towards the Republican Palace and the dome of the Parliament, everyone is courted for all and taking into account the sensitivities of all, and the winner from this is at least temporarily the national space that does not differentiate or exclude.
Here is the secular current apologizing to the conservative current for the years of persecution and the practices of restriction, and is keen to show the understanding relationship of the veil and embracing the veiled, and here are the poles of the conservative current divided in their alliances between nationalists and secularists, and exchange antagonism against the background of the vision of the future, and the assessment of what is the most useful for the political system that will shape the future of modern Turkey, which has become a prominent regional face and a rising international player, and they speak a discourse that presents conservative visions in a national mold based on cultural and historical backgrounds, and is proud of their distinction and adherence to them.
Whatever the results of the electoral scene, it will make the next session a cycle with new tools, different awareness and differentiated performance, and perhaps it is a session that frames sharp differences, renews the architecture of Turkish nationalism and consolidates the constants of identity that the forces of society, politics and state institutions converge to confirm and preserve.
Behind all these trends, everyone is trying to bridge the gap with the Kurdish component, build on an understanding with it, or ensure its understanding - at least - to be part of the formulation of the next governance scene, and the drawing of the Turkish political scene has become based on the convictions of the conservative and Kurdish currents and their electoral orientations, and the winner of the elections is the one who can win them over and satisfy them, as it became clear from the political performance that the two currents of the political past are convinced that they cannot fight the present and win the future without ensuring the conservative voice and neutralizing the Kurdish voice if it is not possible Gain.
Political equations are very complex and intense in the frantic struggle to win over the various segments of the electorate, but at their depth they are a breathless democratic practice behind the winning majority, a majority that has been proven not to be independent of one movement without another.
Most politicians are aware of this, and they move politically, socially and in the media according to that understanding and taking into account these sensitivities, and here we find that the Turkish political scene in its next session is the product of devoting consideration to all spectrums of the people and its components and respecting the various recitations of the people and their intellectual and ideological orientations, unlike what has become the electoral scene in many countries that are witnessing the rise of the right and the intensification of its help and its increasing influence on politics, culture and society.
It is true that the economy and inflation pressures with its internal and external influences, the decline of the Turkish lira against the dollar, the rise in prices, and the youth segment are influential factors in the manufacture of voting conviction and in the formulation of the results of the electoral process, but all this does not affect the depth of electoral competition, and the understanding of the electoral scene for the general voters of the Turkish people, and it is not forgotten that the Turkish people are still one of the most popular people to participate in voting and election, and therefore it is in everyone's awareness that there is no way to bet on The solid masses of voters of one direction or the other, and the economic promises of the contenders translate this deep awareness of the current scene.
Whatever the results of the electoral scene in its current version, whether at the level of presidential or parliamentary elections, it will not resolve the tendencies of influence on the dominant national face of Turkey, society and the state, and the socio-political debate will not resolve the components of Turkey's national identity, present and future, but it will make the next session a cycle with new tools, different awareness and differentiated performance from what Turkish society witnessed in its last years, and perhaps it was a session that frames sharp differences, renews the architecture of Turkish nationalism and consolidates the constants of identity that converge the forces of society. Politics and state institutions are confirmed, preserved and built upon, and it seems that many small parties enter alliances with enthusiasm and vitality to be part of the industry of that framing and engineering the future of identity and patriotism.
The current democratic performance with the successes and failures of its poles will be a factor that enhances the democratic process and consolidates it as a decisive factor in the political, cultural and social action, and will enhance its recourse to it in sorting ideological, political and intellectual differences, and in deciding the option of relying on them and on the inclusive national consciousness in the conflicts of destination and orientation in the midst of political transformations. Very complex regional and international will force Turkey to maintain its face, which has characterized it in recent decades, and to devote its soft role, which is famous for avoiding sharp polarizations and cooling them to remain below the limit of hot confrontations while adhering to the declaration of desire for a new international future in which Turkey is one of the most prominent players and makers.
In the Turkish scene, there are many indications that the next session will enhance the stability of democratic political interaction tools, domesticate sharp conflicts and expand the circle of commonalities that will overcome everyone and lead them to compete within the circle of national interest in the developmental and renaissance sense more than based on the victory of an ideological color over another, and will make everyone's aspirations and sensitivities at the heart of the equation, and for this the current Turkish electoral scene has its repercussions and connotations that distinguish it, attract attention to it, and hold the breath waiting for after the electoral scene is clear and what will result from it.