FIRST PRESIDENT ELECT

Turkey is at the verge of deciding who will be her first president elect. The country is really having to go through a phase where many controversial ideas are bound to come up. This will be the first time that the public will go to ballot boxes to cast their vote for the next president of the country. Formerly, it was the Turkish Grand National Assembly that was charged with the responsibility of choosing the President from among the MP’s elected by public vote. There had been instances when the nominee was a high ranking public figure but again the MP’s were to vote.

Currently there are three nominees who will be running for the President’s Office. Mr. Erdogan, the current Prime Minister, nominated by the ruling party, and Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of and nominated by HDP have political identities. However, the third candidate , Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was initially a faculty member, having traveled extensively, and is known for his Chairing the Organization of the Islamic Conference.   Professor Ihsanoglu was nominated jointly by CHP (Republican People’s Party) and MHP (National Movement Party).

The entire world knows about the current Prime Minister of Turkey who has not only beguiled the citizens of his own country but the entire world as well. He started with a very low profile but now has turned into a very authoritarian figure denying all the allegations made against him, changing the rules of law according to his own interests, and most importantly his main goal is to demolish the Turkish Republic and establish a fundamentalist country with him being the sultan and the caliph. This implies Turkey would be governed by Sharia Law, and rather than moving forward she would go backwards to the corrupt times in history.

Unfortunately, since the education system of the country mainly in the eastern provinces is very low as well as the income of the families, they are very gullible and believe in readily to what they are told. And Mr. Erdogan knowing this weakness of these people goes to them quite often giving them food and other sustenance the would be needing, and in return gets their votes. Actually this is not procuring their votes based on their free-will but using bribery as a tool to achieve his goals.

During these past 12 years, unfortunately the country has not developed, on the contrary, gotten poorer. The deficiency in the budget is the worst ever since the establishment of the Republic. People have lost their power of purchasing goods. The minimum wage is ridiculous. There is no way a family of four could survive on that. But when it comes to the salaries of the MP’s, they have more than quadrupled.Erdogan and his family have gotten rich, actually he being the ninth richest prime minister in the world, and the entire country has gotten poorer.

He has been ruling the country so badly that he started off sating there will be zero tolerance for skirmishes with our neighbors, but right now, we are at a conflict with every single one of them. He had said the government would no way bargain with the murderer of 30,000 people including children and women, who is imprisoned on the island of Imrali. He has done just the opposite and will definitely grant him complete amnesty, give him all his rights so that he could run for an office. These are things beyond any reasonable person’s understanding.

These and many more all add up and that’s why we are saying do not cast your vote to this man. You should, on the other hand, consider Professor Ihsanoglu as the only candidate who will be the true and loyal president of the republic and work within the powers bestowed upon him by the Constitution and Laws with abiding faith.

To put it in a nutshell, then who should the Turkish people vote for the joint candidate of CHP and MHP supported by the other minor political parties?

Say YES to Ekmeleddin. Why?

1. It is going to be a strict NO to Tayyip. The only way to say YES to Ekmeleddin is by saying NO to Tayyip.
2. If Ekmeleddin is elected he will be the President of the Republic of Turkey, however, if Tayyip gets the office, he will be an American style president.
3. If Ekmeleddin is elected, Turkey will be remain as a unified nation, whereas if Tayyip gets to power, he will let establish a Kurdish state.
4. If Ekmeleddin is elected, this will be the first tome Tayyip would have lost an election and this will be a great blemish on his charisma.
5. If Ekmeleddin is elected, he will be able to control the dictatorial powers of AKP.
6. If Ekmeleddin gets majority of the votes, Tayyip will no longer be able to say, “who the heck are you?” because Ekmeleddin would stand before him as a president with the support of more than 50 % of the people.
7. If Ekmeleddin wins, he will have gotten more than 50% of the votes, and this would put AKP to a minority status.
8. If Ekmeleddin wins, then the two parties CHP and MHP can again collaborate in the upcoming elections.
9. If Ekmeleddin wins, everybody is going to see that the wife of a Muslim President need not cover herself up, and this will put an end to the headgear crisis,
10. Ekmeleddin is for cultural Islam whereas Tayyip favors political Islam.
11. While Ekmeleddin supports Islamic culture and science, Tayyip backs the Muslim terrorists.
12. Ekmeleddin is heavily busy with writing articles, books, in short immersed in science, whereas Tayyip is busy in trade, buying and selling gold, construction business hence depriving the country of all its wealth.
13. If Ekmeleddin wins, Turkey will have a peace-loving President contrary to Tayyip who is for all kinds of fights.
14. Had Ekmeleddin and same path, then the pro-Tayyips would not have attacked him.
15. Had those who attack Ekmeleddin claim themselves to be pro-Ataturk been for Ataturk in the true sense of the word, then today we would not have needed Ekmeleddin.

There is no way the Turkish nation will let an Islamist dictator run the country. Therefore disregarding all the differences of opinion, putting into oblivion all those remarks made against the candidate, should work for him and make him get the position in the first leg of the elections on August 10. Turkey should pass this first test very successfully.