Elections have boosted my morale

Not the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) victory… Nor the “smackdown” of those, including me, who are angry with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…

As I put the election results in front of me and went deeper into them, my morale was boosted; I am able to speak with much more self-confidence.

There is no absolute victory for one side and neither is there an absolute fiasco for the other.
There is a true “major victory” in terms of Turkey…

Look, let me explain this one by one, word by word, in a style everybody can understand… We have held such elections that the entire world should bite their tongues with envy.

Participation was near 90 percent. Take a world map and take a close look…

The United States of America… When a bit more than half of the population goes to polls, then it is considered a success…

Take Europe that is the cradle of democracy. When participation reaches 60 percent, then they say it has been marvelous.

Then take a look at Egypt… That country that underwent the “Arab Spring,” the country of “Rabia democracy…”

Tell me, how much of the population went to the polls in that election that took our Muslim brother Mohamed Morsi to the Office of the Presidency? It was 30 percent.

What percentage of the votes did Morsi receive in the first round? It was 24 percent…

Today, in Turkey, how many of the votes did the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) receive? They received 27 percent.

The people of Turkey have declared to the entire world with extraordinary participation such as 90 percent that the only way to a solution is democracy and the polls.   

The true referendum of last Sunday, March 30, has been this…

Now, let us come to the second aspect: Some 130,000 young people formed an absolutely civilian observation army in these elections for the security of the polls. Three days have passed since the elections, but these people are still at the doors of the election boards protecting the honor of the ballot box until the last vote.

Do you know what this is? This is the commitment of the Gezi youth to democracy. None of these children have seen a coup in their lives. And with this attitude of theirs, they are demonstrating to the whole world this: This country can only be ruled by true democracy. Not with military tutelage, and not with, even worse, civilian tutelage…

I am openly saying this: It is no longer possible to rule Turkey as it used to be… The only way is to adopt “pluralist democracy” in its true sense…

There is a sign that truly was smacked down in these elections: The Rabia sign… Prime Minister Erdoğan should now relax in peace. In this country, it was proved that nobody has any thought of toppling him in any other way than the ballot.

But he should also know this: It is not possible now, to rule this country with an iron hand. In other words, the threat ahead of us is not a military coup anymore; it could be a civilian fascism initiative. Now, this is the last major issue Turkey has to solve on the way to democracy: To also nullify the civilian tutelage…

To write a good and modern constitution binding all of us, to re-make the state that has collapsed, to constitute the rule of law that has become wreckage…

There is no victory, there is no smackdown… Let us all chill out. Nobody has lost; we all have won… And we will not lose anymore, because we have got ridden of our fears and started talking.