To the naive citizen waiting for an early election: Read this!

The most talked-about topic of the day, especially in Ankara's political corridors, is an early election.

It won't happen, my friend!

As long as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in good health, there is no such possibility for at least another three years (he might even sacrifice his fifth year to be re-elected)...

Even if the Turkish economy hits rock bottom...

Even if our pensions can no longer cover a single month's rent... It's all in vain!

Forget about an early election.

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Remember, just a year ago, the one who “took the horse” crossed Üsküdar for five years.

Now he is the security, and he is the armed forces too...

He is the head of education, health, and justice!

Moreover, his party has fallen to “second place” in all election polls.

More than half of the provinces painted yellow on the map have turned red.

Why would he go for an early election?

Besides...

Do you have enough numbers in Parliament to make such a decision?

Okay, you don't have that; at least let there be unions, non-governmental organizations, and so on...

They aren't there either...

So who is going to take the country to an early election?

There is only one power that can do this:

The President.

Is “naive” written on his forehead?

Why would he knowingly play “tag” (a fool's game)?

Why would he risk his crown and throne?

Why would he bury this power he holds in the ground?

They say he “can't manage”...

They say he “can't do it”...

They say he is “dragging the country into a swamp”...

They say he is “becoming a dictator”...

As if it were different until yesterday.

As if he was always managing, doing things, and not becoming a dictator, and only became this way today.

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Get over these things, gentlemen, get over them...

If you truly want salvation, stop saying, “Let someone else cook, and we'll eat it with pleasure.”

Okay; you're used to it...

Okay; you've found everything good handed to you on a silver platter.

Being a citizen instead of a subject...

Voting and being elected...

Women's rights...

Equality before the law...

The right to collective bargaining and strikes, unionization...

They even handed you democracy on a silver platter.

Well; what have you, your fathers, or your grandfathers done?

You haven't valued a single one of these “gifts.”

You've squandered them recklessly.

As a result, you have lost one by one those gifts that you didn't earn through hard work, sweat, or, when necessary, shedding your blood...

Now you are doing the same thing again:

“Since we are always ahead in the polls, power is our right. Give us the power!”

Sure, my dear, my eyes are welling up!

You just sit back and do nothing...

Don't even object to the money stolen from your pocket...

Be afraid of police batons and tear gas...

Play the coward even on social media for fear of “what if they file a lawsuit against me”...

Don't take to the streets, don't make the squares roar, don't rebel against the injustices you experience...

Just lie down and get up, waiting for “a new Atatürk”...

Sure... Any other orders?

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Those days are gone, my dear brother.

Atatürk came once; what a great blessing that he came to us!

But he is no longer here.

From now on, they won't gift you anything you deserve!

That era has passed.

Just as “bread is in the lion's mouth” now; true democracy is also in the lion's mouth...

There's no such thing as a free lunch anymore!

There is no labor without effort, no bread without labor, no meal without bread...

Do you want an early election?

These things don't happen with Özgür Özel's speeches, DEM's shouting, or the request of the İYİ Party's new Chairman!

You will show your greatness.

You will show your strength.

You will show your determination.

You won't be afraid of tanks or cannons...

You will read the Address to the Youth and the Bursa Speech at the top of your lungs, and you will show that you are determined to give your life if necessary for this cause, without hurting anyone or shedding a drop of blood...

That is when it might occur to some that they need to go to Tunisia again without an invitation...

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Don't wait for Atatürk...

If you want to get what you think you deserve, slam your fist on the table.

Take to the streets, take to the streets...

Stop crying, whining, begging, and waiting...

Be three, be five, be ten, be a hundred, be a hundred thousand, be a million...

“Tank tracks on the street,

Whistle sounds on the street,

Tommy guns on the street!

It is forbidden to take to the streets...”

Take to the streets without saying that...

“I am on the street.

The night smells of lilacs

And buds.

My heart has become a wounded falcon.

Oh mother, oh mother...

It is hard to die in June” you will say, like Hasan Hüseyin, if necessary...

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You won't wait for Atatürk; you will be a Kemalist...

You will think, plan, and take action like him!

Otherwise...

You will rot away while waiting!