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The problem is the above mentioned liberal and left-wing intelligentsias have an urge to make up a fake reality stemming from lack of knowledge and their dissidence to the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

So after a veritable marathon of two years and four elections, the AKP has once more been able to arrive at a new beginning, a “zero point.”

Now, however, what the election results tell us is that this is not a very high “threshold.” At least a third of Turkish society is capable of behaving in extremely rational and common sense fashion, and it is this group that decides who is to govern.

I am not one of those who believe that the people never make any mistakes. But when I look at Turkish politics, what I see is that compared with the educated elites, those broad groups or sections of society that are commonly described as “the people” have long been far more reasonable, and individuals within that category have been acting in a far more rational and flexible way.

Over the past five months, a flexible and mobile section of the electorate appears to have lived and learned, through its own direct experience, that the AKP’s failure to form a government by itself may have drastic consequences for peace and stability, especially given that the opposition promises nothing but negativism and destruction.