Ertugrul Ozkok:Why did they put that sentence?

He is right. There is nothing like that in the statement but there is another sentence:

"The Republic of Turkey is a democratic, secular and social state of law based on the first articles of the constitution. These indispensable principles are keeping us together."

Why did they put such a sentence in it?

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If you ignore this one and focus on the sentence above it, then the attempt that we call as "reconciliation" loses its meaning. Then one would ask this question:

Why the top prosecutor did filed a lawsuit against AKP demanding its closure?  Isn't it because of the secularism principle?

A brainstorming that ignores the source of the problem wouldn't help Turkey out of this crisis. This crisis is so deep that the ruling party isn't able to "govern" the country with a support of 47 percent.

If the thing we are arguing here was something that could be solved with simple legislative amendments, we wouldn't have come to this point. Because the government gets more angry as more it loses its power to rule the country and this makes it to use state organs with a cruel nature against the people and institutions that are considered as opposition.

So that if we sincerely want to overcome this depression, first of all we should agree on the diagnosis.

This crisis is not caused by "a few elites' demands to get privileges", as the Prime Minister said. The reason of the crisis is the efforts to undermine the secularism principle.

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Another important journalist's, who is also a friend of mine, words on a TV channel made me surprised. He says, "If the Constitutinal Court decides to close AKP, that will be the same thing with a military coup".

Such assessments are made with the assumption that the Constitutional Court will close AKP, which is very wrong. Because the court could decide the otherwise.

What we are going to say if it does so?

If the court closes then the decision will be "a military coup". And if it doesn't then it will be the "victory of democracy".

You may be against the closure of AKP. But accusing the court of doing a military coup is very wrong.

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Erdogan has leadership skills. I have to admit that in his first term he made many things that impressed me. But in his second term he should add the notion "democratic" at the top of his leadership characteristics.

This can happen only if he tolerates the ones who don't share his ideas, sees them as equal citizens with others and shares his power with the stabilizer institutions.

If we say such things, does it mean hostility against a party?

Or being a member of a gang, or supporting a coup?

Or demanding privileges?