Former Minister Günay: Greater compromises needed

2019-07-11 10:35:18


	İSTANBUL - Former Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay said: "Ofcourse every piece that breaks away from AKP will have a negative effect. However, I believe we have greater need of compromisesi greater than those who break away from AKP."

	 

	The politician Ertuğrul Günay, who served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism in the AKP's 60th and 61st governments, evaluated the Istanbul election, what the CHP should do from now on, the discussions within the AKP, the new party initiatives and the policies put forward by the HDP.

	 

	 

	Günay who stated that 23 june elections have created the hope that the government can be defeated at the polls and positive results could be recieved, said: "A prejudice occured especially after the November 1, 2015 elections that the government could not be changed with elections. The government fed this dark prejudice and tried to make people adobt it like their faith. That pessimism has collapsed. In a sense, confidence in democratic methods has ben renewed."

	 

	 

	Reminding that there is an unhappiness in the AKP that has not been expressed for a long time, Günay said:  "Many people who follow the founding principles and promises of the party and who have conscience are uncomfortable with the way things are going. The situation of the country is obvious. For this reason, it is natural that these complaints overflow and cause new searches and formations. However, it is one of the natural conditions of politics that people who intend for new formations and who attempt to be the pioneers of these works should not be responsible for the problems of the country. Ofcourse every piece that breaks away from AKP will have a negative effect. However, I believe we have greater need of compromisesi greater than those who break away from AKP."

	 

	 

	 

	Evaluating the attitude of the Kurdish voters in the last elections, Günay said: "Kurdish community is the most political section of the public today. Their levels of political consciousness are developing rapidly compairing with the other segments of society. This awareness contributed greatly to the hope of democracy on March 31 and June 23. Both the government and the opposition must remember that our Kurdish citizens is a force to be recognized in the faith of our democracy. The political parties should abandon their policy of vote hunting and create sincere politics on the basis of democracy, pluralism and equality to come out flat."