Democracy was the loser in Turkey’s election

Journalism , Turkey Nov 03, 2015 No Comments

To the surprise of the country’s pollsters and pundits, Turkey’s status quo has been restored. The victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Sunday’s parliamentary election sets the country back on track, we have been told, both economically and in terms of national security. The biggest winner was not the party or the president, but rather the stability of the country. On the streets around Istanbul’s Taksim Square, supporters honked their horns into the early hours.

They might have thought twice. In fact, the election’s biggest winner was a cynical, fear-based, anti-democratic style of politics and campaigning in which media organisations and opposition figures are labeled enemies of the state, nationalists are worked into a lather and minorities equated with terrorists, and the electorate’s votes held hostage against the ever-present threat of an instability that, sometimes genuine, sometimes manufactured, is always there to be stoked by the country’s leadership to its own ends. It is easy to claim that you are the single bulwark against instability when you stand over the on/off switch and flick it at will like a petulant child.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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