Founded on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, the Turkish Republic was initially decisively shaped by its founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Now it completes its eventful first century. After twenty years under Erdoğan's autocratic regime, another "Kemal" could now mark the start of the second century. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has succeeded in bringing together small conservative and moderate nationalist opposition parties into a six-party alliance. As their joint candidate, he will be the most promising challenger to Erdoğan in the May 14 elections. In recent polls less than two months before the elections, the leader of the leading opposition party is ahead of Erdoğan. When the Kurdish party HDP, which does not officially belong to the opposition bloc, signaled that it did not want to put up its own candidate, but wanted to support Kılıçdaroğlu, the calculation of the presidential palace got confused.

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In 2018, Erdoğan was elected president with 52.5 percent, but due to the economic crisis into which he plunged the country, as well as the mismanagement after the earthquake, he will hardly be able to win the 50+1 percent necessary for an election victory. This cannot be changed by the 9.3 million euros spent in February by the Palace-affiliated Office of Communications, whose sole function is to make propaganda for Erdoğan.

Erdoğan is aware of this, he has begun to buy the option of defeat. Ministers who could go to court in the event of an election victory of the opposition, he has elected to parliament to protect them by the armor of immunity. He is also preparing to make officials who contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the earthquake area through negligence deputies of his AKP for the same reason. The prospect of defeat appears to have diminished the AKP's attractiveness. Before the last elections, almost eight thousand people were nominated as AKP parliamentary candidates, before 14 May there are only around three thousand.

Erdoğan does not want to lose power after more than twenty years; now he entered into a dangerous cooperation. He decided to ally himself with HÜDA-PAR, the political arm of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which was responsible for brutal killings in Turkey in the 1990s. He aims to close the HDP, which is threatened with a ban procedure, before the elections and then to get the votes of the pro-Sharia HÜDA-PAR, which has its – not too many – supporters, just like the HDP, in the Kurdish provinces. In order to illustrate how dangerous Erdoğan's cooperation with the HÜDA-PAR is, which he announced with the sentence "We write the legend of May 14 together with friends who have newly joined us", I must explain the connection of the legal party HÜDA-PAR to the murders of Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is responsible for the murder of numerous members of the Turkish opposition

The 1990s were bloody in Turkey. In the southeast of the country, the fighting between the state and the terrorist organization PKK continued, when the Turkish Hezbollah, which had organized itself since the 1980s in the environment of a conservative bookstore, entered the scene. The terrorist organization that the state supported against the PKK at the time, to whose actions it turned a blind eye, to say the least, began to carry out attacks against members of the opposition in the region. Dissidents were killed or buried alive in the street by a hacking knife in the neck or a targeted shot. In 1994, Hezbollah killed a Kurdish parliamentarian, and in 2001 it murdered a police chief who took action against it. The horror spread by the organization became clear after an operation in which its leaders were killed in 2000. Documents were secured, thanks to which the bodies of opposition members who had disappeared for years could be recovered from cellar vaults in numerous cities throughout Turkey. It turned out that Hezbollah had kidnapped its victims, tied them up and tortured them in a manner known as a "pig package" and then buried them alive.