Cuneyt Ulsever: Is it me, or has the government changed?

I continue to study the performance of the government. Despite the fact that I supported the liberal-democratic policies that AKP and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, displayed prior to December 17, and that I was with them throughout their difficult days, I am now openly opposed to them. Why? As I wrote yesterday, I am deeply affected by the Prime Minister's misleading of society on some basic subjects. Contrary to what I had expected, the Prime Minister is neither just, nor does he have the ability to fight corruption!Here is what I will call the post-December 17 syndrome which I have seen in the government and especially the Prime Minister: 1) There is very clearly a lack of vision. 2) The government, thinking it has a mandate, has followed a route of populist policies following December 17. These policies are not, however, serious. The government is simply firing off inconsequential salvos on the subjects of the imam hatip (religious) high schools, the turban matter, and unauthorized Koran courses. The AKP is stuck between the conservative "Milli Gorus" or National View, and the state. 3) Despite the fact that it was voted in by a large majority, the AKP has not managed to create an atmosphere of stability, and as such is not able to convince international investors. This inability to attract international investment results in a continuining unemployment problem. 4) Bureaucratic appointments are being run by a "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" policy; the quality of the bureaucracy falls every day. 5) It is not even possible to understand what is happening re foreign policy. The government, being advised by inexperienced sources, doesn't understand which direction the country is going. While winking at Muslim countries under a policy named "deep strategy," Turkey is simultaneously acting as though nothing had happened, nothing had changed, with the US. Â