responses<\/a> to the Justice March of hundreds of thousands of people and the latest Justice Congress were signs of their pulpable uneasiness.<\/p>\nKemal Kilicdaroglu\u2019s biggest challenge now, is to find common ground in a divided opposition to join forces for fighting back against oppression.<\/p>\n
Developing trust and cementing bonds of unity among government\u2019s opponents will be no mean feat.<\/p>\n
Criticism directed at the main opposition for its lack of empathy for Kurds is fully justified. So are the party\u2019s nationalist tendencies in tandem with the government\u2019s increasing belligerence.<\/p>\n
Yet, desperate times call for desperate measures. Turkey\u2019s opposition forces have no choice but come to a broad acceptance of their differences and find ways to stand in solidarity.<\/p>\n
Reversing the French philosopher Blaise Pascal\u2019s famous saying, power without justice may be tyranny, but demanding justice without power is, toothless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turkey\u2019s main opposition the Republican People\u2019s Party\u2019s four-day Justice Congress in the western Canakkale region has come to an end with a five-article declaration. Building on the success of the 450-kilometre \u2018Justice March\u2019 from Ankara to \u0130stanbul in March this year, the party was hoping to maintain the momentum of demand for an end to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29086,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions\/29086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}