Why the 'New Turkey Contract' is an unworthy read

Turkey is not the only country in the world where Islamist Machiavellism features excessive doses of deception and perception management in the name of ?dawa?: The holy cause, or advancement of Islam as a political - and therefore social - ideology. Whether or not, in Turkey?s case, the cheaters can be blamed for cheating has many different answers, depending on which perspective they are judged from: Moral, political, pragmatic, humane or just based on reality. They market an indecent product and it sells.

Ahmet Davuto?lu the human being may be annoyed by having to resort to not-so-decent techniques to market that indecent product, but Ahmet Davuto?lu the prime minister feels inevitably compelled to play his part and market the same product in the name of ?dawa.? His election manifesto 2015, or the ?New Turkey Contract,? is not worthy of any deep analytical thinking.

No election manifesto would promise a nation torture, authoritarianism, systematic corruption, undemocratic practice, poverty or cheating. Prime Minister Davuto?lu?s (not to be confused with Mr. Davuto?lu) election manifesto is no more than a compulsory text of fairy tales that he knows will never come close to reality.

Has Mr. Davuto?lu ever read the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) election manifesto 2002? Sit back and think about what Turkey is and what it is not in 2015, and enjoy excerpts from the AKP?s 93-page election manifesto from 2002:

 - Our party is against Turkey turning its back on the modern world in order to protect its indigenous values. (Do not mistake us for the secular neo-Ottoman Turks!)

- The party views full membership of the EU as a natural outcome of our process of modernization. (Well, that?s a typo; we meant to say the...