by Ihsan Yilmaz - I am extremely bored of the fact that we have to keep writing about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Nevertheless, since he has unfortunately created a party state without effective checks and balances, in this one-man regime, he is the single-most influential decision maker. Thus, whatever he does negatively influences and harms the whole nation. We are not in a position to ignore this fact or talk about some other issues just because we are bored and fed up with Erdoğan.
In the past, we, including myself, were not responsive enough to prevent Turkey from gradually descending into a one-man regime and even unintentionally helped him create such a system since we did not criticize him timely, properly, harshly and frequently enough. Maybe this is a spiritual punishment that we have to suffer. I made an apology at the beginning of the year for all these mistakes of mine, including my failure to object to the arrests of journalists.
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