The CHP, the community and the AK Party

Hüseyin Gülerce

During the press conference he held to declare his resignation from the leadership of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Deniz Baykal surprisingly disclosed that he believed in the sincerity of the message Mr. Fethullah Gülen had sent him.

But, during the same conference he also hurled severe, though unfounded, accusations at the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the prime minister. This double act of fairness and unfairness was enough to foment a cauldron of provocation and mischief. Some have claimed that “the CHP is coming to terms with the Gülen community while sowing the seeds of dissension between the AK Party and the community, as the two have not been on good terms with each other for some time.”