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Election and democracy

We're off to the ballot boxes. We will use our democratic willpower. What kind of result will the political atmosphere created by the accompaniment of parties, leaders and propagandas bring?



All the technologies, an army of media and survey companies are accompanying the democracy. We had an election with pluralist, colorful, competitive and tough discussions. For Turkish democracy it is an important experience. Everyone could find a place for himself, everyone expressed himself, and everyone presented his statement to the society. We had various provocations as well.



By adding violence to democracy, there were ones who wanted to stir up the air. With chaos, terror and violence, democracy and peace were assassinated.



But Turkey's political stability could manage to cope with these. Whoever says whatever Turkey's democracy is it has a certain level of maturity? It can cope with various crises. It doesn't need external support on these issues. It can stand on its own feet.



Elitism and certain deep domination circles are among the elements that pose problems in front of the Turkish democracy. Since they are pursuing their own domination, they do not believe in democracy. That's why they do not believe in the elections either. Thus they come up with a monstrosity concept like election guardianship . As if there is election guardianship in Turkey. Actually what they want to say with this is definite: They do not respect the result of the election. They do not believe in the national willpower that will be definite with the election result. Election means people, but they think that only elites can think right.



Of course with the election guardianship concept, they also deny the democratic power of the AK Party.



They despise AK Party's being supported by the people and its reflection on the election. Since they are against the views of a party, they are even announcing the election as illegitimate.



That's why they are using the concept of the 'guardianship election'. However, an election is essential for all democracies. Man comes with the election, comes to power with election and goes with the election. But this elitist group of Turkey could never get the chance to come with the elections. That's why they always used the coupist, Jacobin, pro-junta and the Gülen-led group methods. And still they want to continue this habit.



Staging coups and forming juntas with religion, army, media or bureaucracy, they want to continue their own domination. We remember that, while he was participating in the elections, İsmet İnönü refused to go to people. Because the people were ignorant, could not decide who to select! Their willpower was not important! Elites should decide on behalf of them! This elitist approach is still going on. Still the election is despised because of this. It is said that people cannot make a right choice.



In democracies, the state of law and human rights are the important factors complementing the elections.



But all the political approaches refusing and despising the election come from the leftist Kemalist junta members. Members of Kadro and Yön movements, National Democratic Revolutionists etc. All have this approach. When these fractions cannot dominate the people's willpower, they lose their mind. Because of this reason they start to play different word games. Like civil fascism, guardianship election. All these give us the indication of the political language of their world. This language is the language of the elitist tradition that is consisted of the old Turkey's members of junta and coupists. These elitists, as the period for the juntas to come to power is over in the New Turkey, lost the chance to come to power.



All their clamor is because of that. Any more they can neither be spoilt by the army nor by another national factor. That's why they have a tendency towards another alliance.



Together with the elections, the Turkish democracy is actualizing big transformations. All the big moves actualized during the Democrat Party (1950-1960), Özal's ANAP (1983-1992) and AK Party rulership (2002-2015) are the harvests of these democratic elections. Today's election carries great importance for the continuation and stability of the democratic and economic transformation.







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