Baykal, speaking to his party's deputies on Tuesday, responded to a call Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made yesterday to look for a solution to a court case to shut down his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
The Constitutional Court agreed last week to hear a case brought by a chief prosecutor to have the AK Party shut down, arguing that it is trying to create an Islamic state. The prosecutor also called for 71 AK Party officials, including Erdoğan, along with President Abdullah Gül, to be banned from politics for five years. The case is expected to take months, and the threat of protracted political instability has unsettled financial markets.
Erdoğan on Saturday stated that he would like to see opposition parties support the AK Party in the case, expressing his opinion that “politics should look for a solution.”
Baykal on Tuesday said: “If there is a violation, the solution is to be found not by the politician but by the judiciary. Nobody should try to distort this fact. The law does not create chaos; trying to break the law does,” he said.
He also criticized the comments of foreign diplomats on the closure case. “If this is a state of law, what is it to you?” he said, addressing international reactions to the case. “Leave us alone; let us solve our own problem by ourselves.” He also raised the question of why the international community had remained silent previously when the Welfare Party (RP) was being shut down. He claimed that although the RP was an Islamist party, it still protected national interests. “Now they say do not touch Tayyip. They are saying that the AK Party’s closure is against their interests,” Baykal stated.
He noted that the principle of secularism in the Constitution was added in order to ensure that the republic of Atatürk would live on without being distorted. “We are all mortal. What’s important is Atatürk’s republic surviving without being ruined.”
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