Questions and answers
I want to respond to a few questions that might be on people’s minds these days: Does [Prime Minister] Recep Tayyip Erdo?an really believe his party will be forced to close?
He does not have any firm beliefs in connection with this question. I think he sees the chance that the party will not be forced to close down as an alternative that should not be underestimated. Is there really a possibility that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will not be forced to close down? At the start of this process, I was 100 percent sure the party would be forced to close. But now I believe that the AK Party’s punishment may be limited to cutting off Treasury funds to the party. In addition, the judges may lean toward issuing a more moderate decision based on a) pressure from the European Union, b) the AK Party’s representation of large sections of society in the southeast and east of Turkey, which means that it is important from the perspective of the nation’s unity, and c) the economic fluctuations that could occur as a result of its forced closure.
16 May 2008, Friday
NAZLI ILICAK, SABAH
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