Former Turkish MP: Erdogan's policies have doubled the gap with young people
Mohamed Okaktan, a former Justice and
Development member of parliament (ruling), observed the disparity between
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party and the new wave of youth
over time, citing weak ties and links with younger generations.
"The AKP has not been able to cope with
this change," Okaktan said in an article. "The gap between the ruling
party 17 years ago and the new youth wave is widening over time, because the
culture of obedience is no longer able to retain the younger generations within
their suffocating molds.”
He pointed out that young generations demand a
more free world to explore, not a world that is imposed on them. They are
generations of surveying, believing in the rule of law and desiring a high
quality democracy, but the Justice and Development Party has closed its windows
to this new world.
The former vice-president of Justice and
Development said that international democratic values reflecting people's
attitudes, the rule of law and the high quality and efficiency of freedom are
what have earned justice and development on the international scene until 2011,
but the party is no longer pursuing these values.
