New opposition tactics against Erdo?an-Davuto?lu

All three Turkish opposition parties in parliament have ignored President Tayyip Erdo?an?s surprising public objection to the resignation of National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Chief Hakan Fidan, who answered to a call by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to become a candidate for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in the June 7 parliamentary elections.

There are a few reasons for this.
 
The first one, as Hasip Kaplan of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) said, is that ahead of every long trip (like the six-day Latin America trip started on Feb. 8), Erdo?an likes to make a sensational remark that alters the political agenda from the issues sensitive to the AK Parti governments until his return.
 
The second, as Oktay Vural of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said, is that opposition parties believe that under Erdo?an, Davuto?lu and Fidan, the M?T has been used as a ?party instrument? for intelligence-gathering against opponents, rather than national security priorities.
 
The third, as Akif Hamzaçebi of the social democratic main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) said, is that the opposition parties suspect Erdo?an?s move could have been made to defy claims that he is an autocrat whose decisions cannot be resisted, and to credit Davuto?lu as a leader who can make his own decisions independent of Erdo?an.
 
The fourth is that the opposition parties may have decided to take a ?let them eat themselves? kind of attitude, sensing what could be the highest-level clash of power within the AK Parti throughout its 12-year-plus rule. They are therefore not getting involved and sticking with their own agendas.
 
So, in the parliamentary group meetings on Jan. 10, no...