Whom would you like to upset, whom to make happy?

Tomorrow, God willing, we will hold yet another of the fateful elections in Turkey's history. For every election, phrases such as "this time is different" are used. The truth is that every election in Turkey is important in its own right. After all, no election in which the leaders who will head one of the world's most important countries are chosen can be unimportant. Turkey is not like any European country, or any country of Latin America, the Middle East or Central Asia.

Today Turkey is the only country that has a thesis against the existing world order, voices that thesis loudly, and is able to propose an alternative. Perhaps because each of those other countries plays within the limits of a role assigned to it by the existing world order, it matters little who comes to power and who leaves. That is why elections there do not change very much. And only rarely does interference from another country come into play to influence an election there.

In Turkey, however, who takes office matters a great deal, so the elections are not only Turkey's elections; they are also an election for outside powers. Not only citizens of Turkey who vote take part in the elections; many external and internal centers of power take part as well.

Turkey is a country at the center of many equations needed for the world order to keep running as it is, and with its own sociological, historical and spiritual identity it always carries potentials that are disturbing to the bigwigs of the existing order.

Today, under Erdoğan's leadership, Turkey is breathing new life into the suppressed, crushed and exploited world by saying "the world is bigger than five," and is giving voice to its troubles and objections.

Moreover, it does not do this with crude ideological bombast. By the development it has actually achieved at home, it is building a model, and in doing so, rather than pleasing the so-called "developmentalist" global powers, it stirs up their spite. They are not pleased with the success in Turkey of such a development model, a democratic model at peace with its own people and its own history; they are disturbed by it. That is why elections in Turkey are so important for them. They do not hold back from using every instrument at their disposal to stop Turkey under Erdoğan's administration.

In the February 7 MIT crisis, in the Gezi events, on December 17-25, in the Kobani events, on July 15, they always wanted the same thing and could not complete it. On June 7 (2015) they had tried a very different operation. They formed an unbelievable alliance with national and international elements to bring Erdoğan down through elections. Settling it through elections was the surest way. That is why they gave unprecedented help to the HDP, which they used as a battering ram. They embellished blood-stained terrorists and presented them as romantic heroes of freedom.

Even then, as now, there were people who had always voted for the AK Parti and Erdoğan up to that point but fell into hesitation for reasons similar to today's. On the morning of June 8, they all saw with their own eyes that what had befallen them was not something that had befallen the AK Parti and Erdoğan, but something that had befallen themselves, and Turkey.

According to the result of that election, there was utter sorrow that day in Gaza, Mecca, Cairo, Aleppo, Sarajevo, Tunis and Jerusalem. By contrast, there was complete festive jubilation on the streets of Tel Aviv, with HDP flags. Newspapers published under Vatican control ran joyful headlines that day: "The Saladin Ayyubi of the New Millennium has been stopped." Nothing could describe what happened better than the joy and grief experienced in these two worlds.

It is not hard to guess who will rejoice and who will not at the probable results of this election. Looking at the analysis from this angle sheds light on all other assessments.

From the terrorist chief of Pennsylvania down to the last of them, they all convey, in short, this message: "In this election, the opposition may rejoice. All you have to do is protect the ballot boxes. Provided that Kemalists, nationalists and other opponents protect the ballot boxes, the AKP is gone, it is going. Do not despair."

The PKK's spokespeople, who serve everyone except the Kurds, have also made clear in this election who their friend and who their enemy is. They have counted the CHP among their friends too, and they talk about sending Erdoğan away by democratic means.

"O TURKS, GIVE ERDOĞAN TO US"

There is also a message from the Lebanese writer of Turkish origin Hamza Tekin. I too wrote an introductory chapter for his book on July 15, "al-Jasus wa al-Kabus." It is the best book that tells the Arab world about July 15. Tekin says:

"Ever since early elections were announced, prayers for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been pouring in from all Arab countries.

I alone have received more than twenty thousand messages from citizens of all Arab countries, containing wishes for a great victory for Erdoğan..

They say: We have no right to vote in the Turkish elections, we know that, but we have the right to pray for Erdoğan to win the June 24, 2018 elections and achieve a great victory.

When I ask them the reason for this interest in Erdoğan, their answer is always: Erdoğan did not only restore the glory and grandeur of Turkey, he restored our glory too. For more than 100 years, that is, since the collapse of the Ottoman state, we have been in a state of humiliation and defeat. Erdoğan has definitely given us back victory and hope.

Erdoğan gave the Turks back a strong and independent state and made it a state with a great development project.. Unlike the other countries destroyed by the West, Erdoğan was able to make his country a great and strong homeland in the Middle East.

They say to us: O Turks, after Erdoğan has done this for you, how can you not elect him!?

They say to us: O Turks, today you have a leader who deserves to be written into history with glory and honor. East and West speak of him. He has millions of admirers in the Islamic world, he is the greatest leader of the Arab and Islamic world. How can you not elect him!?

The truth is that from the words we hear as we travel through Arab countries, we feel even more what a great president, one to be proud of, we have.

They want to take him from us. In recent years, many Arab regimes have exerted intense pressure on their own peoples, destroying their own countries and turning them into dictatorships.

They say to us: We love Erdoğan and are proud of him, because he gave us back our dignity… O Turks, if you do not want Erdoğan, give him to us, we want him… Give him at least for an hour, so that he may give back to us our stolen countries, our dreams, our lives."