Presidential system is a global move

Presidential system is a global move

Bercan Tutar

Turkey is on the home stretch in search for a new system.
The global and regional players that sought to curb the progress of our country led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as their local figureheads have lost the war that started three years ago with the Gezi Park protests.
They have failed to bring New Turkey to its knees.
Lastly, the Western-backed "Entente Cordiale" attempt, made between the terrorist organizations like the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Daesh and the pro-parallel Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ) and the pro-colonialist conservatives for the post-Erdoğan era, has come to naught as well.
In that sense, the May 4 Declaration is actually a historic red card Turkey showed to the West and the German school. It is no longer possible to design externally or internally the New Turkey, which has kicked off a political mobilization move.
Just as the conspiracy of putting Turkey under tutelage through coalition governments after June 7 was smashed into the wall of the "national will" on Nov. 1, the conservative elites who were conditioned like Pavlov's dogs for the post-Erdoğan era have fallen into the deep abyss of shallow interests.
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Frankly speaking, the Atlantic Alliance has already run out of steam to rectify our country's route. These were its last moves. This is because the system itself is in deadlock.
In this sense, in the wake of the 2008 crisis, triggered by the fiascoes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US, which "acts alone" in determining the formulation of international policies, has now been virtually deprived of its ability to steer the alliance.
Cold winds are blowing between the US and its allies like Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey. Realpolitik has been forcing Washington to start flirting with rival actors like China, Russia and Iran.
The US, which is the system's central country, has been losing ground to China in the Pacific, to Russia in Central Asia, to Germany in Europe, and to Turkey in the Middle East.
The US is still able to maintain its global power position. It can show up anytime, anywhere around the world. But it cannot be the decisive power and primary player in any region.
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On the other hand, with the global financial crisis, the erosion of Western economic and democratic values that are based on liberal ideology has today reached its peak. Having lent support to the likes of Bashar al-Assad, who massacre their people, instead of backing the democratic change in the Muslim world, the West no longer has any value to offer to humanity.
This maelstrom is affecting not only the Muslim world but also the West itself.

The economic, political, social and cultural crises that recur in the form of xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia in France, Germany and the US are proof that the financial crisis of 2008 is now threatening the internal stability of Western countries. The spell has been broken.
The US is trying to pull away from the world, but it is finding it harder and harder to keep the fascist swell in the country and in Europe in check. In this sense, the rise of racist parties in Europe and of neo-fascist political figures like Donald Trump is no surprise.
Trump is the crystallized form of Western culture. He is the symbol of truth in the subconscious of the West that came to surface. This chaotic symbol is the fruit of the military and antidemocratic storms caused by the Bush and Obama administrations.
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So what will happen next?
With its military, political, cultural and economic paradigms on the verge of bankruptcy, it is hard for the Western world to find an exit. This is because they are in a Parmenidean error. For this reason, none of its internal policies and strategies about the world are or will be of any effect.
In political science, a Parmenidean error results from the failure to take the passing of time into account.
What we see is the Western mind that cannot read and understand the changing world, the demands of this world and the painful legacy it left to this world. The chaos in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Egypt is obvious. The Western world must get this right:
The "duel system" by which political disputes are settled with a single war has been left behind. We are going through a multipolar, multi-tiered and more complex process in which sociocultural realities are more decisive.
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The world has changed and is changing a lot. As the global economic crisis deepens, the nation-state models which are its political formulations have started to fall apart in the Middle East. So to speak, our region is evolving toward the Ottoman Empire's supranational and cosmopolitan political system.
All social and political projects, implemented first in line with the interests of the British and the French and then according to Mossad's, the Pentagon's and the CIA's shallow analyses that lack any historic profundity have backfired.
The Sykes-Picot imperial order and the Western power architecture that feed on tribal, ethnic and sectarian distinctions instead of the 400-year-long Ottoman order is cracking at all points.
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This is because the post-colonial projects that were marketed with the "liberal peace-building" brand after making peoples and states fight each other did not serve any purpose other than to reinforce internal slavery and chaos in our region.

This is why there won't be any peace and reconciliation until the completion of the collapse of the West! This is because the old habits of the "mastermind" that rules over the Atlantic Alliance die hard.
Previously, they Balkanized every country that refused to serve their interests, making it vulnerable to external interventions.
When that country wasn't occupied, it was redesigned according to the imperial needs through ethnic, sectarian or political conflicts and it was placed under tutelage. Leaders who refused to submit were toppled in coups like Mohamed Morsi, Mohammad Mosaddegh and Salvador Allende.
Or they were killed like Adnan Menderes, Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and Congolese President Patrice Lumumba. Or they were eliminated "through natural means" like Hugo Chavez and Turgut Özal. Or they were domesticated through the Western media's attacks like Fidel Castro and Vladimir Putin.
In this context, they have failed to tame only Erdoğan. All dirty scenarios targeting Erdoğan, who has become a beacon of hope for the Muslim world, were smashed into smithereens in the face of the "national will."
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Although they have still been struggling with the crisis of political legitimacy despite their three-century-long presence in the Muslim world, the Western countries can unabashedly rail against the legitimacy of President Erdoğan, who has secured 52 percent of the national vote.
It is for this reason that I don't think reconciliation can be brokered with the West and its Messianic slaves that target Erdoğan. Indeed, this despotic mindset never recognized and never will recognize the right to life of Muslims and the Others.
Even if you comply with its rules to win an overwhelming majority at the polls, its colonialist mind will reject you and overthrow you at the earliest opportunity. In doing so, it violates the very principles it has laid down and it will never pay the price. And it does not see any immorality in this, like the German fool Jan Böhmermann. This is its morality.
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Therefore, everything will be reciprocal from now on as implied in the Latin phrase quid pro quo. We are now in the time of tit for tat. The foreign policy that is dependent on foreign actors is coming to an end. In this sense, what we see is a Turkey at the stage of Weltinnenpolitik. That is, friendship will be reciprocated with friendship, difficulty with difficulty, cooperation with cooperation, and propaganda with propaganda. Everyone can be assured of this!
The "presidential system process" Turkey has entered will amply show this to everyone.