Turkish Politics Is Lost At Meeting People's Needs

This month, the Turkish parliament reconvened from its summer recess. With that, the regularly scheduled speeches by party leaders on Tuesdays are back again, as harsh as they used to be, offering no hope that the political atmosphere in the country would move toward following a more constructive tune.

In fact, the rhetoric in the parliament will likely turn more poisonous in the coming months as the country has literally entered its election season — first with local elections in March 2014, followed by the election of the country’s next president in August 2014 by public vote for the first time and general elections in 2015.