[Hurriyet Daily News] Nonetheless the basic problem is neither the clash of personalities or absence of it, nor the autocratic personality of the president, but rather a bigger issue of the political understanding of the president and his governing party. The opinion leaders of the governing party, or perhaps we should call it “governing ideology,” express what they mean of “politics” more clearly nowadays. Their politics is defined by “Islamic democracy,” and a “powerful Turkey as the leader of umma” and ruling out anything which may be an obstacle in their way as a legitimate “struggle of the great cause, whose leader is ErdoÄŸan.” So much so that even the governing party members and supporters who have been in favor of a coalition government are despised as “Trojan horses.” Under the circumstances, they do not engage in any genuine political game but just fake it. Finally, there are no politics in Turkey anymore but pursuing a grand project by faking politics.