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Türkiye: "Padishah, do not be arrogant"
Last weekend they showed: Türkiye will not calm down so simply. Despite the attempts by the authorities to sit at the negotiating table with the leaders of the protest movement, the riots in Istanbul and other Turkish cities do not subside. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Jewish financiers who, they say, are interested in shaking the Turkish economy, but these statements only spurred the street requiring the resignation of the prime minister.
Fire on one of the barricades near the square Taxim
On June 13, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared an ultimatum to a protester, demanding at 24 hours to free Istanbul Square Taxim. However, on the night of the 14th, he met with representatives of the creative intelligentsia, who formed the so-called “Taxim Solidarity Platform”-the brain center of the protest movement, which lost four people in contractions with security forces (one policeman also died).
And although Erdogan previously stated that the area would be reconstructed in any case, during the night meeting it was decided to wait for the final verdict of the Istanbul administrative court, which temporarily suspended the work in Taxima. If the court decides that the construction will not be, the authorities will refuse to reconstruct. If it issues a building permit, then the government will first hold a referendum on this issue in Istanbul, despite the fact that, according to the law, referendums are not held in such cases. Finally, Erdogan promised to conduct an investigation for each case of unjustified use by the police. 
While negotiations in Ankara (The New Times report from the Turkish capital - in No. 20 of June 10, 2013 ), in Istanbul the demonstrators made a live chain in support of their children, and a little later on Taxim, a piano concert took place. 
And in the evening of the 14th, there was a rally on the square, at which the protest leaders spoke about the agreements reached, which, however, did not cool the crowd. On Saturday, the volume of the afternoon began by stripping. The police acted tough: vodoma, tear gas, demonstrators literally washed off from the square, blocking all the approaches to it, but people continued to gather in other areas, as well as in other cities throughout the country. 
It doesn’t matter whether it will be a decline or not, according to experts, Erdogan lost much more in this story. The Kemalist opposition does not pose a serious threat to him - the conservative electorate is afraid to return to the times of infringement of the rights of believers and will stand for the prime minister with a mountain. Which is much worse for the prime minister is the emerging split inside the most ruling party of justice and development (PSR). “In Turkey, it is not customary to criticize the leader in any party, and even more so no one dared to oppose Erdogan,” Rauf Mirkadyrov, political scientist from Ankara, explained to The New Times. “However, in recent days, a number of prominent deputies of the PSR condemned the tone of the prime minister.” Among the Taxim’s defenders who performed on the side were the former Minister of Culture Ertugrul Gunay, as well as the parliament deputy from the Izmir Erdal Kalkan, who wrote on his Twitter: “Padishah, if not arrogant, is Allah, he is higher than you.” 
Next year, the first universal presidential election will be held in Turkey (before that, the head of state was elected parliament, but the real power was in the hands of the prime minister). Record Tayyip Erdogan will take part in them - he hopes either through the decision of the parliament or with the help of a referendum to change the constitution, making Turkey the presidential republic. However, if a couple of weeks ago, few doubted Erdogan victory in the elections, today the results no longer look so unambiguous.
“The current President Abdullah Gul can be real competition to Erdogan,” Rauf Mirkadyrov is sure, “although he belongs to the Islamic current, he behaved more reconciliation during protests.” 
The upcoming elections for Erdogan, who is serving at the premier post, is already a third term, not a simple formality. Legislatively, the number of premieres is not limited. However, in the PSR there is an internal rule: for the position of prime minister, any member of the party is nominated no more than three times. This rule would be not difficult to cancel, but Erdogan himself repeatedly stated that he would not go to the head of the party for parliamentary elections for the fourth time. And if the revolution in Taxim will prevent Erdogan from taking the presidential chair, then he will have to completely leave big politics.
Photos: Reuters, AFP/ East News, Oren Ziv