When did the İYİ Party and the CHP make this alliance?

The AK Party had, in recent months, passed through the TBMM, with the support of the MHP, the regulation that allows political parties to form election alliances without giving up their own identities and without needing any contrivances. With this regulation, an important stage had been reached on the way to conducting politics more honestly and more transparently.

The CHP, as always, did not spare its harshest opposition. It gave up neither the claim that this regulation is anti-democratic nor shouting and screaming with concerns that the voice of the opposition would be completely silenced this way. As of yesterday, with 15 MPs being made to resign and assigned to the ranks of the İYİ Party, it was seen how ready the CHP already is to reap political profit from this new system, stretching even political horizons and dreams.

The CHP, which says that it regards opposing the AK Party in any case, whatever it does, even if it is believed to be doing the best things for the country, as the condition of existence of being an opposition, has, we must appreciate, thus done something consistent with its own contrariness.

Of course nothing is left for anyone to say at this point. When the bar is lowered to such a place, whatever you say comes to nothing.

The CHP thus grants the İYİ Party, too, the possibility of forming a group in Parliament. This is a contribution similar to what it did earlier when it channeled part of its own votes to the HDP, enabling it to pass the threshold as well. Thus the CHP follows an interesting politics, as if its own votes were in surplus, distributing them left and right, but in fact to the extreme right and the extreme left.

The present leaders of the CHP that Atatürk founded give the picture of squandering all the acquis of a political party and scattering it to the winds just to get through the day, with great wastefulness, as if they had come into an inheritance. İlhan Cihaner of the CHP, rightly, also reacted by saying "we would like 20 MPs each for the ÖDP, TKP and DSP too."

Truly this is the inevitable result of this logic. When you start giving to someone unrelated, other unrelated people also begin to claim a right. Then nothing remains of the institution's legacy.

The picture the CHP, which deals out the cards of a spectrum extending from a divisive leftist party to an extreme rightist party, laid out as of yesterday has also lifted the cover from important facts about what kind of cooperation in action all three parties have managed to arrange up to now.

Today no one has any doubt that the İYİ Party, which set out with the slogan "Yurtta Sulh" (Peace at Home), which has become a symbol of July 15, is a FETÖ operation. It is also well known that the real aim of an operation to be launched first within the MHP was to obtain an assault-and-fortification position against the AK Party. What was not very well known until yesterday was that İYİ Party and CHP MPs were in a mutual understanding of cooperation to this degree.

The CHP leader's not daring to run for the Presidency as the chairman of a main opposition party shows, from the very beginning, a confession of his incapacity to reach the finish line. In fact this confession itself costs a great deal. The harshness of rhetoric, which is not commensurate with this lack of self-confidence, strains the political atmosphere more than necessary. Yet in the end, there is the image of a leader hiding behind Meral Akşener, who will be nominated with the 15 MPs he made resign because he did not dare to run himself. How far can harshness go?

Of course, the regulation that made it possible, with the votes of the AK Party and the MHP, to form alliances between parties was a measure taken precisely to increase political transparency, openness and honesty. Yet what occurred between the CHP and the İYİ Party was less a new alliance than, as it were, the exposure of a cooperation that already existed from before.

It turns out that a cooperation that started long before, without a legal regulation between them, existed. The HDP was part of this cooperation as well. Let us recall the cheerful images of the HDP MP, after the election, after passing the threshold, with the CHP MPs. A CHP MP, referring to the AK Party, even gave the HDP MP a "high five," saying "how we all shook them together!"

What the opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which brings together such dissimilar-looking, distant elements across the political spectrum, will mean in the coming elections has thus become evident of its own accord.

THE US SHOULD WORRY A BIT ABOUT THE COUNTRIES UNDER ITS OWN CONTROL

The statement from the US that it is concerned about the possibility of a democratic election in Turkey, which is going to the polls under state-of-emergency conditions, is a complete comedy. Setting aside that it has not experienced an unblemished election in its own country, the US, which cannot even call the military coup in Egypt, which took place under its own control, a coup, and which watched with no concern, as if thoroughly entertained, the election theater of the putschist Sisi, who received 98 percent of the votes in an environment where all the candidates were arrested and the election was held with a single candidate, may be concerned about the elections in Turkey not because the elections are undemocratic but because they may be much more democratic than it wants. We will keep worrying the US, which is clearly going to be concerned about any election whose winner will be Erdoğan. It is our nature, after all, let it not dry up..