Turkey’s former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Thursday that during his term, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had asked him to serve as a prime minister without using the official powers of the post.
“Act like a prime minister, but do not use your powers, do not even appoint the provincial heads of your own party,” Davutoğlu said about his term in the office. “This is what the president and the members of the party’s central board asked me. What was asked from me was to act as some sort of a low-profile prime minister,” he said.
Ahmet published a long manifesto criticizing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Facebook in April, after the AKP faced major losses in local polls on March 31. He said the AKP’s reformist, liberal ethos had been replaced in recent years by a more statist, security-based (fascist) approach that was driven by concerns about preserving the status quo.
BREAKAWAY PARTY
Speculation has mounted for months that Babacan and Davutoğlu are planning the launch of new political parties that could draw defectors from the ruling party. Babacan’s resignation from the AKP is widely regarded as a significant step towards the creation of a new party.
According to Davutoğlu, the last resort would be to establish a new political party. He said that he had not been acting together with Babacan and the former President Abdullah Gül, because the duo had not announced clearly their plans to form a breakaway party.
MEDIA OUTLETS DID NOT INVITE ME
“We passed from a flawed parliamentarian system to a flawed presidential system,” said Davutoğlu, in relation to Turkey’s new executive presidential system that was approved in a referendum in 2017.
The former prime minister said that he had wanted to share his opinions on the new system before the referendum, but that the media outlets he had reached had declined to invite him.
After this broadcast exposing the corrupted, fascist Turkish government, all members of the team who aided the broadcasting of Ahmet’s confessions were fired from their jobs.
