Well, did you stomach all of this?

Where should I start? For instance, no matter if it’s head or tails, we will have a religious president; whereas, those who are holding on to Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu had difficulty adapting to Turgut Özal, one of our former presidents. I guess it is an issue of being able to stomach the lesser of two evils.

Have you been able to digest the fact that those who could not even accept Turgut Özal, even after he died, are now regarding Ekmeleddin Bey as an easy to digest bite?

Likewise, how do you view that some writers from the conservative community approach the Ekmeleddin Bey incident with quite a naïve stance?

That these same writers are extremely joyful the opposition has nominated a person from their own world, instead of from one of the politically and mentally separate worlds?

They present the case as if it were “a victory of conservative Turkey and normalization.”

Also, are you not curious, meanwhile, what has happened to political rivalry? In what kind of desperateness have the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) given up their political ideals in their minds and the candidate profile in their hearts? How can the central left policy collapse with the joint candidate project by imitating the central right and contradicting its own line? Also, the fact that they do not even care a bit that this collapse means an obituary in terms of democratic diversity and pluralism… 

On the contrary, that they are feel an ultimate pleasure and satisfaction that the opposition has adopted the line of the government, that they could not find any other way but to resemble the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to cope with it…  

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