Davutoğlu's call for accountability to CHP and AK Party

Ahmet Davutoğlu, in his speech at the TBMM, covered broad topics from CHP's congress debates to state wisdom, from judiciary-politics tension to foreign policy...

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Future Party Chairman Ahmet Davutoğlu made evaluations at the weekly group meeting of the New Path Party in the TBMM. Regarding the "absolute nullity" decision given to CHP’s 38th Ordinary Congress, Davutoğlu said, "There is a need for a mental cleansing." He noted that for days the questions "What is state wisdom? What is the deep state? Who is planning what? What are the prerequisites for participation in Trump's Abraham Accords, as the valuable Chairman Mr. Erkan just said? Are we part of an international conspiracy?" have been on the agenda, emphasizing that mental clarity should be brought through the four concepts he listed as state wisdom, deep state, political wisdom, and deep nation. "Some groups with no depth call themselves the deep state" Davutoğlu stressed that the link established between state wisdom and the deep state must be sharply broken, stating, "State wisdom is the wisdom brought by institutional experience and is absolutely correct and necessary. But sometimes certain circles, when they feel politics is weak, come out saying 'We represent state wisdom' and narrow the field of politics. They call themselves the deep state, some groups with no depth. Turkey has seen this a lot. I put two more things against this: political wisdom and deep nation. The deep nation is the conscience of the nation that has digested the values brought by centuries and lives with them. What is political wisdom? Political wisdom is the visionary mind based on freedom of thought that politicians who claim to govern the state must produce." Call for accountability to CHP Looking at the history of the Republic, Davutoğlu conveyed that when the National Forces were established, a significant part of the state officials inherited from the Ottoman Empire were Unionists, and these cadres met with the deep nation that rose up in Kahramanmaraş, Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep without taking orders from anywhere, first waged the War of Independence, and then founded the republic. However, he argued that this alliance was broken during the single-party period and an understanding that saw itself as the owner of the state disconnected from the deep values of the nation. Davutoğlu said, "No one should see this as a reckoning with the Republic. This rupture disconnected the Republican People's Party, which sees itself as the founding party of the state, from the nation. I call on my dear friends who look at the conflicts within the Republican People's Party today: Without reconnecting with the deep nation, the Republican People's Party's chance of coming to power is very difficult. To our friends in the Republican People's Party, to those who are currently having mutual discussions within the party... The Republican People's Party is an important institution, an important political structure, and to protect this structure or to prevent it from perishing in an internal struggle, they must first do this accounting." "Is a new tutelage system being established by settling in Beştepe?" Davutoğlu stated that the ruling party must also do a self-accounting just like CHP, saying, "Now AK Party members must also do a self-accounting just like the Republican People's Party. Are they reconciled with the conscience of the deep nation that made them the ruling party? Can political wisdom manage state wisdom? Or is someone settling in Beştepe to establish a new tutelage system?" Davutoğlu recalled that during the Cyprus negotiations, while he was conducting the process with Abdullah Gül, a letter from the General Staff came demanding the immediate cessation of the negotiations with the phrase "against national interests," and at that time a newspaper headline read "Young officers are uncomfortable." He said, "Our opinion was this: If we continue the Cyprus negotiations, the Greeks will say 'check' and 'no.' We wrote a letter in response: 'Only the elected government of the Republic of Turkey determines the foreign policy and supreme interests of the Republic of Turkey.' Both letters were withdrawn from state archives." Davutoğlu said that they fought not with authoritarianism but with democracy and political wisdom with the mentality lingering from February 28, and that they were subjected to many accusations during this process. When they made the Africa opening, they were called "dreamers," when they met with Hamas, "Islamists," and when they wanted to establish the Turkish Council, "Enver Pasha supporters," but "they could not defeat our political wisdom," he said. Read more This section contains reference points related to the topic. "No one can determine your fate" Addressing the youth, Davutoğlu said, "There is such a perception spreading that there is a deep state controlling everything. The moment we say this, our lifeline is cut. We are the subject. We determine the future, we think, we produce vision, we produce politics, the day we say this, political wisdom is found. When I came from abroad, in 1995 I could not find a job at the university. Two university rectors wanted to hire me, but they did not during February 28. My wife wore a headscarf, they thought I was religious. But the same Davutoğlu contributed to writing the 2005 National Security Policy Document. He personally wrote the 2010 one as Minister of Foreign Affairs and read and approved the 2015 one as Prime Minister. No one should despair. Hey youth, do not think 'Someone is planning deeply, there is no space for us.' You are the state and you will determine the future of the state. No one can exclude you, no one can determine your fate. No one can say 'I represent state wisdom.' Today we represent state wisdom, tomorrow you will." "If there is corruption, why did you wait?" Davutoğlu expressed that concepts like "trustee" and "nullity" developed recently through the judiciary have made the system unpredictable, and continued: We are against every judicial decision interfering in politics but we support going to the end of all corruption. Now, if tomorrow with this nullity, someone says 'There were some irregularities in the referendum of the presidential government system' like the previous congress was canceled and files a case years later, what happens if all state transactions in this process lose validity? If there was corruption or wrongdoing, why did you wait two and a half years? The Supreme Election Council is a constitutional institution. If the final decision of the Supreme Election Council is opened to debate, which election will feel safe? How will the voter feel safe? Mr. Bahçeli is also uncomfortable because as state wisdom he correctly said 'Turkey without terrorism' but suddenly state wisdom evaporated. "Call for 'clean politics' and 'political ethics law'" Davutoğlu, stating that the systemic corruption system has spread everywhere, responded to President Erdoğan’s words "I will fight with those who see the trust as loot" as follows: Mr. President, very true words, I applaud. But, but if you really want to fight those who see the trust as loot, here is the guide. What you will do is clear: Pass the political ethics law I referred to the Parliament on the day I was instructed to collect signatures in the MKYK. Review incentives. Make the tender law an unconditional tender law. Implement the zoning law. Very easy. You have been in power for 23 years, Mr. President. Share with the public who you have held accountable among those who turned the trust into loot so far. See the account of those who received 750 thousand euros from businessmen. In foreign policy, Davutoğlu argued that Turkey has become open to external influences and the understanding of "You cannot stay in power without pleasing America" has settled, noting that Trump's humiliating words were met with silence. He recalled that before the March 1 motion, an American official explained engineering plans for the AK Party to collapse, and said, "While the blood of our brothers in Gaza is being shed in Gaza, I want to hear a strong voice saying we will not even speak a single word with Israel, let alone make peace." "Seven fundamental revolutions are necessary" Davutoğlu claimed that Turkey is being put in a dual vise between a conservative-looking autocracy and a revanchist secularist authoritarianism in the upcoming elections, and listed the seven fundamental revolutions he proposed as follows: One, a revolution of morality is necessary, obligatory, and essential. Two, a revolution of justice is necessary. The religion of the state is justice and everything happening today destroys justice. Three, a revolution of production and employment is necessary. We have turned into a country that does not produce. In the latest growth figures, industry did not grow, it shrank. Four, a revolution of income justice and social state is necessary. June inflation will be low. Why? There will be a raise in July. What kind of cruelty is this? I say to TÜİK: Do your job, do your job, do not play with the people's bread. Five, an institutional revolution based on merit is necessary. We will rebuild state institutions. Six, a revolution of education and culture is necessary. Education has become a disaster. And seven, finally, a system revolution is necessary. Within the paradigm of this presidential government system, it is impossible for this country to go anywhere under authoritarianism.

Davutoğlu's call for accountability to CHP and AK Party

Ahmet Davutoğlu, in his speech at the TBMM, covered broad topics from CHP's congress debates to state wisdom, from judiciary-politics tension to foreign policy...