Turkey-Russia relations are in no way a dependency relation. Our country has no need for a dependency relation similar to that in the “NATO axis.” Common threats, similar defense methods, getting direct threats from the West, especially Turkey’s sensitivities about Syria being exploited by the U.S. and its allies, and what’s more, Turkey being directly threatened brought Ankara and Moscow together. Both countries needed this and they still do.

The addition of geopolitics, and topics that prioritized security to economic partnerships gave rise to this rapport. The ties that remained intact despite sabotages – such as the jet crisis – planned by circles threatening both countries are stronger compared to the past, and the current condition of the region and the rough storms in the world render the continuation of this rapport mandatory.

Russia is openly under the West’s threat of attack. Sooner or later, such a clash, such a standoff will take place. The latest spy crisis is the first signal of this. These signs will further increase in time; reciprocal showdowns may rapidly turn into clashes; and a general East-West frontline will shape from the Baltics to Eastern Europe, to the Pacific coasts.

Turkey is openly under the Western threat. The July 15 attack is the clearest attack in this regard and was directly aimed at dividing Turkey. A Turkey plan that will open fronts through the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and strike the country from the inside to “shrink” it was applied.

The “siege” operation in northern Syria is a U.S.-NATO plan and is continuing as is. The build-up in this zone has nothing to do with Syria or Iran; it is a plan to directly close off Turkey’s southern gates, sever its ties with the region, trap it within Anatolia, isolate it and then make it kneel.

These threats are continuing in the same manner despite the Afrin intervention. Turkey saw the threats, took a spectacular defense alarm immediately after July 15; and after the interventions that it started from Afrin, which are obliged to continue, it has ventured to ruin a game that will leave its mark on the century. This showdown will continue in this direction for a longer period of time.

Because the issue is not limited to the “map of Turkey” alone; it concerns the formation of a new region. What’s more, when the global power map is being formed, it is related to the activity in the world’s center of gravity. In other words, interventions such as July 15 and closing in from the south and Turkey’s counter-defense are all global and regional-scale.

Similar to those who supported July 15, the plan to siege from the south also has serious supporters on the “inside.” Those who are disturbed by the Afrin operation, those who try to cooperate – or are in cooperation – with the U.S. after FETÖ, those who try to confuse the masses shouldering Turkey’s historic march with plans for a political divide, those working with all their might for operations to end after Afrin, those who are confusing minds with new projects and offers, those who want to collapse Turkey’s great historic leap from the inside are part of both July 15 and the plans to siege from the south through the PKK’s Syria affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD).

We are going to see the kind of role those circles are going to assume within the context of new multinational plans. These “mapper” circles have two main goals: to sabotage the rapport between Turkey and Russia on the outside and break the alliance between the Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on the inside. They are both plans that are aimed at Turkey of those who “on the outside.” Those on the inside work like that because they want it that way. We are going to see serious sabotages, attempts and interventions which are both internal and external in this respect until the 2019 elections. We can gradually already see moves in this direction.

Both topics are aimed at “isolating” Turkey,” leaving it defenseless” and “submitting” it to the U.S. plans to re-implement July 15 and the plans to siege from the south, and they are once again being controlled by those obvious centers. The agenda on the inside is aimed at preventing Turkey from localizing, nationalizing and gaining strength in the region; it is aimed at reversing the wind, sabotaging that national political mind, confusing the strong public mind that supports it, and to push those who protect this march outside of political history.

The agenda on the outside is to end Turkey’s great historic leap before if begins, to push it outside of history, to domesticate it, and to take it under control and shrink it. This is where the great fight is. This is where the century-old showdown and century-old resistance are.

Turkey has no such agenda as Eurasianism. There is no such thing as the Russia axis in question, and we don’t need it either.

Turkey’s axis has not shifted, it has found its own axis. Looking at it from here, the entire world’s axis has shifted, because history-making nations and states are turning back to their own histories and claims. Turkey is the same.

Our issue is to create a “Turkey axis” in our own historic climate, in our own region. We no longer have dependency relations in this aspect. From now on, like every strong state, Turkey is going to draw its own road map, determine its own independent relations, make its preferences, but never fall into the trap of “multinational intervention.”

If we didn’t stand close to Russia, we wouldn’t have been able to gain such a field of maneuver in Syria. Our famous ally, the U.S., was meanwhile amassing enough weapons in Afrin to equip thousands of soldiers, building massive armories and preparing for war against Turkey.

From now on, nobody should dare promote the U.S. and alliance to Turkey. Nobody should present to us the “bosses” of July 15 as “saviors,” as allies. They should not dare cooperate secretly with the U.S. and attempt to conduct operations in the state, public and community. Nobody should dare feed on certain countries of the region to which the U.S. has given tenders and try and sell the “conservative opposition” game as innocent opposition.

For Turkey, 2019 will be beyond an election; it will perhaps be a choice that will shape the 21st century. Look not only at Turkey but the whole world to see well which country is preparing for what and the kind of global storm they are preparing for. While everyone from Russia to the U.S., from EU countries to Pacific forces are strengthening their defense shields, while every country is trying to settle their social solidarity on the inside on strong grounds, certain groups will not be allowed to shake the internal social ground.

Hence, this is not limited to the elections alone, it is directly related to the country’s future, its existence and where it will be in the world of the future. Regardless of our political background, ethnic identity, disposition, we all have the responsibility of being “from Turkey” on our shoulders and it is an obligation no different to the War of Independence.

Now, all states in the world are alone. There are no friendships or enmities. Alliances are over. With this being the case, let us be on alert against “multinational” operations aimed at weakening Turkey on the inside, isolating it in the region and turning it into booty in the hands of pro-Atlantic circles.

Let us especially be alert against ‘secret’ mappers.

Of course, also against new “jet crisis” sabotages with Russia.

Plans aimed at getting Turkey to battle Iran and release it on the Russia front are going to be promoted with new scenarios; let us be careful.

Let us never forget, we are only going to fight for the Turkey axis.