How did the AK Party come out of the labyrinth?

The June 7 elections were reached by passing through an extraordinary period. Election results create an unarguable justification under any circumstance. This was the case for the June elections too. However, the AK Party did not hold those that did not vote for them responsible for the outcome. They did not make humiliating comments about the voters, as did the CHP, MHP and the HDP. They especially adopted a careful attitude towards the conservative Kurds that rejected them during the elections. The results were evaluated based on self-criticism.

Yet, no one could say that the period leading to June 7 was normal. The AK Party, maybe, prepared for all elections under extraordinary conditions, yet they had difficulty standing against these extraordinary conditions because, the opposition was carrying out its “Grand” attack.

If there are only five months between two general elections, and the AK Party has lost and regained nine points within this time frame, then there must be an extraordinary situation in that country. Thus, this situation cannot only be evaluated according to the political party's performance.

I do not know how far back the planning for this would go, but I can say that since 2013, a different coup mechanism has started in Turkey. The target of this coup mechanism is to carry out political operations just before the three major elections.

Beyond any doubt, the target is the AK Party, President Erdoğan, and the conservative population. Some of the attempts towards achieving this included: attempting to cut the connections between the leader and the party's voters, a silent coup attempt through the 17/25 December corruption case, and street riots attempted through HDP/PKK/DHKP-C/DAEŞ/FETÖ.

The purpose obviously was not to completely abolish the AK Party. Yet, pulling down the party's guard, and starting its exhaustion/breakdown period would have been a great success. Thus, the June 7 election results provided an opportunity to the coup mechanism.

After June 7, Turkey went through a critical period that equaled the span of 50 years in only five months. President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Davutoğlu directed this period perfectly. Because the problem was beyond the AK Party, the problem was for Turkey to weather the storm.

However, this was a very tough period for Turkey, as we lost 185 civilians and 160 members of the security forces. The last plot was through a conspiracy of the HDP/PKK. The coup mechanism was going to push the HDP and the opposition parties to create a short circuit in the parliament. And then, parallel to this, the PKK would start an ultimate “war,” the nation would be threatened with turning into Syria and then persuaded to become Egypt..

The AK Party would be pushed towards a coalition through the PKK mangling the region. Being stuck between the PKK and the military forces, the AK Party would have to surrender. The 'surrender' would then be legitimized by naming it a coalition. The AK Party would then forced to enter the Motherland Party (ANAP) route. In this way, everything could be blamed on Erdoğan and he could easily be toppled.

Everyone was trying to 'understand' what Bahçeli was trying to do, but this was very clear anyway; The MHP's role in the team play was to compel the AK Party to the CHP. While the three brother parties cornered AK Party in parliament, PKK and ISIL would do the same on the streets, and FETÖ would lay the groundwork. The only exit in this labyrinth was the CHP exit.

The moment the AK Party formed a coalition with the CHP, the trap door would fall down like a guillotine. November 1 was a great slap in the coup's face.