See what befalls one whose guide is the Community

The result is clear, and moreover it is a result that has now been repeated exactly 8 times in 11 years. The AK Parti came first in the eighth of the elections it has entered since it was founded, and again received more votes than the total of the main opposition and its offspring.

There is yet another recurring result: the main opposition's trying to bring water from a thousand streams in order not to accept this clear result. The CHP, demanding recounts ad nauseam in many places, Ankara above all, has fallen in pursuit of a vain hope, trying to look at the bottom of the ballot boxes for what it believes it lost in the will of the people.

However much it probes, it will no longer be possible from this hour on for it to get anything out of there. The place where it should look for what it lost is the memory and the heart of the people. The CHP's loss is there, and unless it goes all the way in there it will not be possible for it to find what it lost.

Yet this time it expects to find it as if it had put it there with its own hand, and goes on prolonging its insistence with self-assurance. Because this time its guide was the Camia, and with what self-assurance had it promised that it would find what it wanted in the results of these elections.

What the result of this election would be had been told to them down to the fractions. The AK Parti would receive between 27 and 30 percent of the vote, and this would begin Erdoğan's end. Everything had been set according to this result. They had badly believed in this result and made others believe. All the bargains had been struck from the start as if this result were in hand. Shortly before the ballot boxes were opened, the resignation of an AK Parti deputy from the parallel was to have a synchronized destructive effect together with that result expected to arrive within a few hours, indeed.

The Cihan News Agency's reflecting the results from the start in line with exactly this expectation, let us not seem to be defending them, came partly from their own belief in it. It was precisely for that reason that the data the Anadolu Agency was relaying directly from the ballot box sites was creating disappointment. Yet the AA's data was reporting the later picture exactly as it was from the start.

In the AA data it was entirely natural that the votes coming from the eastern provinces, where the CHP had no presence at all in the first stage, showed the AK Parti far ahead. What was not natural was that CHA or the other news sources were slow-handed in reflecting this picture. Not only that, but they had the ballot box data from the West, opened an hour later, entered almost earlier, and began reflecting precisely the results they wished for..

Yet what use could there be in continuing to deceive oneself over a picture that everyone would see anyway within just a few hours? Granted, they could keep themselves occupied for a while with polls, but how could one surrender to a wish that would be completely belied a few hours later?

Perhaps this is one cause of the traumatic shock experienced in the CHP. The CHP, whose guide is the Camia, was made to believe in a messianic deliverance until the last minute. So much ground was covered in this hypnotic belief in so short a time that the CHP, six days after the election, still cannot accept this shape of the results. Because most likely it has completely lost its perception of reality.

The CHP, whose guide in politics is the Camia, has much more to endure. As if it had not been cut off from reality enough already by its own ideological illusions, it has now acquired in addition a new guide who is a professional at the distortion and reconstruction of reality. Now search for the CHP on earth and you will find it. By God, the winds of Alamut keep blowing at the head of the CHP under the effect of the gas they got from the Camia.

The Camia did not merely mislead the CHP and the MHP and bury their noses at the bottom of the ballot boxes. It also misled the whole world with the picture of Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that it has been trying to draw for the world for almost a year, especially through its foreign-language media.

Those who followed Turkey from Today's Zaman or other Camia publications felt badly deceived on 31 March. For in these publications there was the image of a dictator in Turkey who had entirely lost popular support and was barely standing. The unprecedented poll results they gave showed the AK Parti's vote shares about to fall almost behind the CHP's.

In fact, in this picture of Turkey being drawn, it did not seem possible for free, democratic elections to exist. After all, in which dictator's country are elections held with such varied vote distributions? Yet contrary to the image produced, the election results revealed the real image of a democratic leader with record-level popular support behind him.

It naturally did not seem possible to try to repair, by the same kind of activity, what the Camia's mission chiefs, who have continued giving this image of Turkey to the world through countless lobbying activities and by pouring out tons of money, had demolished.

Yet this picture, which emerged clearly on 30 March, sufficed, and more than sufficed, to correct the whole perception without any need for lobbying activity. The very people whom they had been complaining to about Turkey and Tayyip Erdoğan have already entered a race, one by one, to get in touch with Turkey and Erdoğan and congratulate them.

Now it is time for them to be awakened from this dangerous hypnosis into which they have been drawn. I hope this awakening does not cause too much destruction either.