Before the election, final reflections, may it be for the best…

The big day has arrived. After an intense election campaign experienced like a festival of democracy, everyone has said what they had to say, and then some. Not a single stone has been left unthrown at anyone's skirt. All the stones were thrown at the other side. A significant portion of the words were said to persuade the citizen, the voter, standing in the middle.

Part of the electorate has long since made up its mind. It sees nothing to hesitate over. To them everything is clear as day. They probably even have difficulty understanding those who are undecided.

But another part of the electorate waited for one more sign until the very last day in order to decide.

Perhaps the sweet side of democracy is that this voter expected everyone to address him, to reach him, to lay out their projects in the most convincing way, to ask him about his concerns, demands and expectations. In this way he would be making a contract. Knowing who represents him and who will represent him, he would be making his contract through face-to-face, eye-to-eye contact.

AN ELECTION IS A CONTRACT, A DEBT: DEBT IS GIVEN TO THOSE WHO CAN REPAY IT

Because elections are a contract between the electors and the elected. This contract is, in Turkey, as strong as it can be and one that always makes its effect felt on those who are elected. In fact, examples of politicians who forget their word the very next day after taking the voter's vote, who even lie while giving their word, are plentiful. Indeed, unfortunately, this has been for years the common model of the politician in Turkey.

Turkey came to know, gradually, a politics that regards the promise given to the voter as a debt and strives to do right by it, first with right-wing politicians, and at a far more advanced level with the Milli Görüş and AK Parti politician, with Erdoğan. Erdoğan is a politician who feels that he has gone into debt with the word he has given and who makes a superhuman effort to fulfill it. Everyone is in fact a witness that on this road he is giving up his body, his time, his health.

He always promised his voters, his people, his nation far more than he could give, and worked far harder for it, and in fact was never embarrassed by those words. Because he always did more than he promised, he carried out the obligation of representing his voters in the best way possible. That is why he repeated the trust he gave his voters again and again. Winning so many elections in a row can never be seen as a coincidence in terms of Turkey's election conventions.

Here again a new election has arrived, and in this election process too we see Erdoğan speaking in the language of that relationship of trust he has established with his voters over the years. He explained what he has done and what he is doing. This is a guarantee that he will really do what he says he will do. By contrast, Kılıçdaroğlu drew the profile of a politician who readily promises, without thinking or calculating, that he will immediately do whatever is asked of him. In the past too, and today too. That is why he lost every election he entered against Erdoğan: he did not inspire trust. He did not inspire trust because he is like a merchant who has never paid any of his debts in the past, now a crafty entrepreneur demanding unlimited credit with no collateral to show. We have a nation, after all, that knows the one who asks for credit by his eyes. Kılıçdaroğlu makes clear with his every manner, even as he asks for the loan, that he will not repay it. He has neither the assets to repay his debt nor the capacity to manage the money he receives.

WHOSE EYES THIS TAPE WILL OPEN, WHOSE IT WILL SHUT EVEN TIGHTER

But he is the candidate the opposition allied around against Erdoğan. Because they could not find and bring forward a better one. Is that exactly so?

In fact, just a few days before the election, the tape conspiracy against Muharrem İnce, another presidential candidate, practically reminded us what kind of option we are facing. Had Erdoğan worked for months on his election campaign, he could not have shown this situation better. That much.

Muharrem İnce, who was seen as an obstacle in the way of Kılıçdaroğlu, whose path had been cleared "by someone" with a tape operation 13 years ago to place him at the head of the CHP, has now been removed from his path again by a tape operation. No one doubts anymore that it was FETÖ who did this. Besides, they say openly, boasting, that they stole it.

What was done to İnce is a perfect example that also exposes how the Nation Alliance, with the HDPKK addition, is being held together. Just three days after Akşener, who sat at the table with none of her views respected, rose in revolt at this situation, we no longer even wonder what was among the factors that seated her again.

Actually, we were not unaware of it before either. That is why it is not possible to describe the elections as a coup, but we pointed out that all the coup-plotters, all the anti-democratic forces, all the foreign and anti-Turkish elements have lined up behind the Nation Alliance in this election. They are not conducting their campaign only within the acceptable limits and methods of democracy. With tapes, blackmail, threats, slander, wheeling and dealing, this time they are trying to make sure of the result.

FOR AZERBAIJAN, FOR TÜRKİYE, FOR HAGIA SOPHIA

From this hour on, the matter has of course ceased to be a choice between two equal candidates. The matter is now whether or not to stand guard over the independence of the country, the homeland, and whether or not to turn a blind eye to human dignity and rights and freedoms being tied to wheeling and dealing.

It is seen that FETÖ, which is trying to be decisive in this process, has not neglected its symbolism either. On May 10, 2010, the anniversary of the date on which it toppled Deniz Baykal with a tape operation, that is, again on a May 10, by toppling Muharrem İnce with the same kind of operation, it makes its signature on the operation even more visible.

Of course, we also do not forget that FETÖ is not made up of FETÖ alone; it is a tool of the international powers that use it against Turkey's independence. This tool is now in pursuit of toppling Erdoğan on the path of its own organizational revenge, but if the country must be burned for this revenge, if the key must be handed to the USA, if all the country's achievements will be wiped out, it does not care at all.

Actually, it does care. This is precisely the job description its masters have given it. They too have a lust for revenge coming from Syria, from Azerbaijan, from the Eastern Mediterranean, from Davos, from Hagia Sophia, and from the whole of history.

If they come with all their grudges, hostilities and ambitions, of course they must be welcomed well. May May 14 be the day on which the campaign launched against this country by all the forces of evil gathered together is halted and repelled, may Türkiye win, may Hagia Sophia remain open and call out to the world from its minarets, and may humanity bear witness: God is great and there is no god but God.