Tufan Türenc: Truly a suggestion not worthy of consideration

Reporters have been asking Prime Minister Erdogan about ANAP leader Erkan Mumcu's suggestion. Erdogan just laughed, and said "Good night to you all." And let me just say, I would have done the same. I really wonder what Erkan Mumcu, who has proposed freedom for turbans, getting rid of YOK (the board of higher education), even changing the Presidential system, is really up to?  Was he not the one who said "We are incompatible," and "Our world views are very different" and even "It is for these reasons that I cannot stay in the AKP? But as far as I can see from his suggestions, he is completely compatible, in fact his world views are precisly the same as those of the Prime Minister. Poking holds in the cloth of the secular republic, freeing up turbans so that they can be worn even in government offices, turning universities into the Muslim arenas idealized by the AKP, changing the Constitution so that someone whose world view is well known can occupy the Cankaya Presidential Palace: aren't these things all in line with what AKP wants?  *** So, I think it's necessary to ask Erkan Mumcu this question:  "Since you have decided to be of such support to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, why did you leave the AKP in the first place?" I guess Erkan Mumcu didn't leave the AKP and join the ANAP because of any new realizations about his character and philosophy. I guess he joined the ANAP with the goal of having it support the AKP.  Or maybe he had a different plan. Maybe he was planning to try and steal some of the AKP votes for ANAP, a party which has already died politically. Whatever eccentric thoughts are spinning around in the head of this young politician, it is not good politics. When the real thing exists, no one is going to give their vote to an imitator. This is one of the foundation rules of politics. No little party imitating a big party can steal votes. There is certainly no example of this in our political history.  *** I think Erkan Mumcu needs to think good and hard about this path. He probably knew that his suggestion would become the center of focus, that it would shake things up. So in a way, you could say he reached his goal. But in the end, the damage will be greater than whatever gain there was. For him to resign from the AKP claiming "different world view" and "incompatibility," and then return to his old party making such suggestions: no politician has the luxury of being able to tout such inconsistencies.  Erkan Mumcu is a young politician. He lives a modern life style with his family. His wife is an artist. A modern Turkish woman. If, by employing the motifs of the AKP Party, he tries to collect votes for ANAP, he will be making a big mistake. It is difficult to believe that as the world lives out these days of the information era, while women all over Muslim countries fight conservative administrations in an attempt to modernize, that Turkish women are fighting to cover their heads. Which is why these attempts by this young politician whose wife is even an artist do not befit him. Which is also why I say Recep Tayyip Erdogan was right to laugh and pass over Mumcu's suggestion.  I would have done the same thing. Â