"The ups and downs of democracy in Turkey
Yuksel Soylemez
04 June 2007
Question: Turkey could not elect a President. Was this not a minus, or a poor show, for Turkish democracy?
Soylemez: Well, some people may think that it was, but I beg to differ. It was the unprecedented revolt of the parliamentary minority against the heavy handed imposition of the parliamentary majority in power. Seen from that angle, it was an expression of democratic freedom of choice, and as such it was an historic event that can be described not as the impotency of the TBMM but as a example of Turkish democracy on the rise."
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