The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) is one of the most striking examples of the amorphous and ideology-free, unprincipled and politically unethical political tradition of politics in this country.
The vein of pan-Turkism that emerged in this country during the disintegration period of the Ottoman Empire, developed by Tatar intellectuals, and strangely enough tried to be indigenized by a Kurdish intellectual, Ziya Gökalp, has been one of the most useful ideologies in Turkish politics ever since...
Take a look at the political parties that are active today and you can see how widespread it still is.
Let's count; MHP, IYI Party, Zafer Party, Key Party, Milli Yol Party and dozens of others, big and small, that many of us have never even heard of...
Likewise, the ringleaders of a military memorandum and a military coup in the recent past used this ideology to the fullest. Needless to say, the generals who carried out both coups were American henchmen. The focal point where the fascist elements tasked with preparing the ground for that coup were trained was the MHP's side organizations.
If you scrutinize any of their activities, you will find an imperialist conspiracy underneath... There is only one answer to the question “Which party makes full use of ethnic and sectarian divisions and conflicts in order to gain votes and positions in politics?” and that is the MHP.
Even though the ‘nationalist’ parties I have just mentioned are also trying to capitalize on the same issues, none of them can be as ingenious as the MHP. Because no one can hold a candle to them in terms of experience and agility.
A proposal to dynamite the values of the Republic!...
Without this description, I could not enter the current issue, so I had to go on and on.
Let's get to the point...
The MHP chairman's latest outburst, namely his suggestion that one of the vice presidents should be Kurdish and one Alevi!
I put aside the fact that he is presenting it as if it were his own invention, but one would have to be blind not to see how absurd it is and how it is a suggestion that would dynamize the fundamental values of the republic.
This proposal is against national unity, secularism and the social state of law. The fact that such a proposal is being made by the leader of a party that claims to be ultra-nationalist is both interesting and dangerous!
It is contrary to national unity because it confines state organization from top to bottom to ethnic and sectarian criteria.
It is against secularism because it eliminates the ‘secular citizen' by emphasizing sectarian criteria.
It is against the social rule of law, because it paves the way for a multi-jurisdictional system and paves the way for ethnic and sectarian favoritism.
These three dangers alone are enough to destroy a country!
One would expect a foreign intelligence agent like today's Lawrence or Gertrud Bell to make this suggestion...
That is why it is so dangerous, because we are dealing with a divisive Trojan horse!
A system that does nothing but poison the country
So, did the chairman of a party whose political culture is not very developed sleep one night and wake up in the morning and come up with this proposal?
What we are proposing is the system currently in place in Lebanon, which is facing disintegration and occupation! This political system, which has been in place since 1943, has gnawed this country, once the commercial and cultural center of the Middle East, from within, turning it into a plaything in the hands of regional and global powers.
Within the framework of the National Pact, the founding document of the country, agreed upon in 1943, the political structure in Lebanon was established on the basis of the distribution of political posts among the sects in proportion to their population.
The National Pact stipulated that the president would be a Maronite, the speaker of parliament a Shiite, the prime minister a Sunni, and that the members of parliament would be divided six/five between Christians and Muslims.
In the early 1970s, the growing Muslim population demanded more rights in the governance of the country and equal representation in parliament. This political structure, which was seen as one of the major causes of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), was partially changed with the Taif Agreement signed in 1989. This agreement restricted the powers of the president, who was elected from the Christian community, and equalized the number of Christian and Muslim deputies in the parliament and divided them on a sectarian basis.
It's such a sticky mess!
The regime in Lebanon is described as a ‘parliamentary democratic republic’, but in fact it is based on the criteria of an almost tribal society.
The principle of separation of powers is not enough to prevent ethnic and sectarian rivalries and conflicts. Since the system is based on religion and ethnic groups rather than political parties and ideology, in practice important decisions can only be taken by consensus. This creates serious difficulties in making decisions for the economic and social development of the country.
It should be recalled that this system was one of the causes of the conflict that claimed the lives of thousands of Lebanese.
The goal of a non-religious and non-sectarian structure was already included in the constitution after the Taif Agreement, but this system is such a quagmire that the price of this transformation is likely to be a new civil war!
If Lebanon today is a country struggling with poverty and even hunger, a country where politicians betray the homeland day and night for their tribal and personal interests, a country that is on its way to extinction step by step, this system is the main culprit! And it is also the reason why neighbor tries to strangle neighbor in every crisis...
An invitation to hell
This is the system that the MHP Chairman wants to put the Turkish Republic into... A prescription imposed by the French when Lebanon was under the French mandate!
It is impossible to say that he came up with this proposal out of ignorance. Considering the raison d'être and function of his party, it is necessary to see that the target is a new attack on the republic during the constitutional debates!
This is a proposal that every citizen of any ethnicity - Turkish, Kurdish, Circassian, Bosnian, Arab, Armenian, Greek, whatever ethnicity you can think of, Hanafi, Shafi'i, Jaafari, Alevi, Assyrian, Yazidi, Catholic, Orthodox, whatever faith - should throw away.
Especially Kurdish politicians and the leaders of the Alevi community should be very vigilant against this trap, they should not take this proposal seriously and even discuss it!
They should be the first to refuse. If this game is played, the gates of hell will open forever and we will all burn together.