Did Ankara tragedy bring the parties closer?

TURKEY - In Brief 14 Oct 2015 by Atilla Yesilada

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Once again, I’m using the opportunity provided by a reader in the form of a question to write an update. May I take this opportunity to kindly ask all of our readers to use our website to post their questions to me, Cosmo and Dr Murat Ucer? This is the question: Hi. Clearly the attack was a huge tragedy. But my sense was before this weekend the chances for a compromise govt post elections were a bit better than after last vote. U agree? And if so, do u think the tragedy over weekend makes it more or less likely parties compromise post vote (I’m assuming the outcome isnt materially different in terms of seats than last time)? Sadly, the terror attack left the nation more divided than ever. The non-parliamentary opposition is united in its view that the attack took place because of AKP’s negligence, if not outright conspiracy. AKP fans believe that the target of the attack was the votes for the party and the personage of Mr. Erdogan, who is currently on a crusade to elevate Turkey to the position of the world leader. HDP and MHP, too, are acting very obstinately. HDP leader Mr. Demirtas is leading the front who claims AKP orchestrated the attack by using ISIS bombers as minions. MHP pointedly refused requests for appointments from PM Davutoglu and opposition leader Mr. Kilicdaroglu. Yet I also have good news. Kilicdaroglu asked for a meeting with Davutoglu, who received him very amicably. While the two leaders could not agree on the necessity of the Ministers of Interior and Justice to resign, such meetings have been extremely rare under the tenure of Erdogan. Call me a romantic, but I believe the open channels between Davutoglu and Kilicdaroglu would make it much easier...