Will DP act as DTP of Feb. 28 process?
Now that Hüsamettin Cindoruk has been elected the new leader of the Democrat Party (DP), one question is on everyone’s mind: Will the party move under the control of supporters of coups and other forms of anti-democratic activity? The true democrats of the DP were hopeful that the plans of Cindoruk and his fervent supporter, former President Süleyman Demirel, would be thwarted if its former leader, Süleyman Soylu, was elected for a second term. Their hopes, however, proved futile, as Cindoruk was elected as the new DP leader with a crushing victory over Soylu. Many wonder whether Cindoruk will continue to back anti-democratic initiatives as he did in the past. Cindoruk, who became the target of harsh criticism for his support for such anti-democratic initiatives as the 367 quorum for the presidential election in 2007, the controversial General Staff e-memorandum released on April 27, 2007 and the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the use of headscarves at universities, drew the ire of m
