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Whom will this alliance save?

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We need to see that the general elections to be held tomorrow have also brought us to a crossroads. All elections are, without doubt, crossroads at which options abound for people's choices.

They offer the people the options of turning back or veering to the sides in the course the country is taking. The popularity these options enjoy among the people is a matter of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the current direction. That people do not have to go in the same direction forever, and that if they are to go on they can decide this by their own will, is of course the superiority of democracy over other regimes. Now the people

will decide whether Turkey, which has been moving in the same direction for 13 years, should continue in the same direction. The propaganda and efforts at persuasion of all the other parties in the opposite direction have also been expressed freely. There is nothing wrong with that.

Democracy also requires a climate of debate in which the limits of criticism can at times be exceeded sharply. Everyone should, and should be able to, pour out all the stones in their skirt. But no criticism should ever reach the dimensions of violence, threats and blackmail so as to disable people's decisions and wills. For a decision made by people whose will has been taken from them through intimidation and threats can never be called democracy.

Those who are confident in themselves never try to persuade others by frightening them. This is not persuasion, it is taking captive. Every election has a unifying story. Unfortunately, the unifying story of this election will be the tremendous tutelage that the parallel structure has established over all the parties other than the AK Parti through different mechanisms, together with the empire of fear that the HDP has established in the East, especially over Kurdish voters.

They had noisily denied the Freemasonry documents recently published in Yeni Şafak concerning the parallel structure. But in my view, if you want conclusive proof, you can find that conclusive proof by looking at the way they have worked on all the parties at the same time in these elections.

The parallel structure put on a performance in which it wrote scenarios at the same time for everyone from the HDP to the MHP, from the CHP to the parties of the Alliance, and did not hesitate to openly act as the prompter of this scenario as well. This is a style of working peculiar to masonic structures, which do not put their eggs in one basket, but the need to gather the entire opposition into a single basket across this election landscape smashes the eggs to pieces. It lays bare all the tales of taqiyya in full view.

For years, through Şefkat Tepeleri, Tek Türkiye'ler and Karanlık Odalar, and through anti-PKK and anti-BDP broadcasts that produced hate speech even against the Kurds, all the channels of the parallel are now busy from morning till night applying democratic, peaceful, humanist makeup to the HDP and the PKK. They are preparing them as the nice coalition partners of the coming period.

Curiously, the base of the HDP is getting ready to buy into the possibility of a coalition with the MHP. The same thing is being prepared in the MHP base for the possibility of a coalition with the HDP. It is something like a sign of the Day of Judgment.

"SAVING THE PARALLEL STRUCTURE"

It certainly does not bother us when sworn enemies resolve the problems between them and come together. We say may it be auspicious, we even congratulate it as a step on the road to peace and brotherhood. But this alliance, this rapprochement, is not a very good omen. It is a rapprochement whose sole aim is to save the parallel structure, one that is "in service" to the parallel structure. There is little chance that it is very voluntary. It is an alliance that cannot come about without trickery, intrigue, scheming and blackmail. It is as if one hand has tasked all the parties together with the purpose of saving the parallel structure. The mission has been defined: to save the parallel structure. For this job, it is essential that the AK Parti and Tayyip Erdoğan be pushed back in these elections. An alliance that has no project and no good for the country as a whole.

The self-sacrificing support that the structure gives to this team formed to save the parallel structure also draws more than enough of the necessary "himmet" from international powers. Thus the real boss of the team shows itself as well. Whether the parallel structure is sacrificing itself and all its supporting detachments for those powers, or whether that structure has assigned all of its elements in the country to save its loyal parallel, is not clear for now, but what emerges plainly on this occasion is the organic relationship between them.

In the end, for all these forces, tomorrow's elections are the last chance to begin getting rid of the AK Parti and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who act on their own and are in no way willing to share their power with them.

Meanwhile, the exploits of the HDP in the East, which they are trying to polish in the eyes of the people in the West whom they take for fools, continue at full speed without stopping and without changing at all.

Only two of the cases most recently recorded:

"YOU ARE MY DISCIPLE,

YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR ME"

The HDP's Siirt parliamentary candidate İsmail Aydın, who tries to collect votes by tracing himself to a sheikh lineage, took with him Celadet Gaydalı, the Bitlis parliamentary candidate, who also tries to collect votes by relying on the Sheikhs of Hizan, and they went out hunting for disciples in Şirvan. In the villages they stopped at, they launched a tremendous persuasion drive by telling people, "we are sheikhs, you are our disciples, you must vote for us." We cannot yet know how many votes a Marxist-Stalinist organization collects this way, but since they know that this path alone can never be convincing, we know that to those who cannot be convinced they show what is truly convincing, their armed teams. In one village they stopped at in Şirvan, the villagers whom they tried to persuade using exactly this language showed them the way out of the village, saying "you have gone astray for the sake of a Marxist-Stalinist organization, how can you be our sheikhs, with what face can you ask us for votes on this ground?" Of course, there was also an argument over the mosque and the flag, and a scuffle that continued at the police station.

THE PKK IS PREVENTING AK PARTI-SUPPORTING VILLAGERS FROM GOING TO THE HIGHLAND PASTURES

The second incident is taking place in Eruh. Some of Eruh's villages are sending their animals to the highland pastures these days. The animals of villages likely to vote for the AK Parti are now being forcibly prevented by the PKK from going up to the pastures. The cost of this blockade for the villagers is of course very heavy, and the message it gives for these days is more than clear.

If the HDP were content with a rhetorical campaign to pass the threshold, there would be no problem at all; even if it passed, that would be one of the possible and acceptable outcomes of democracy, but what could be the results of an election it enters under these conditions?