Hakan Fidan, the current Foreign Minister who has led the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the backbone of Turkish statehood, for more than 13 years, is undoubtedly a truly exceptional figure. His intelligence background adds “mysterious” and “mystical” shades to Hakan Fidan’s identity, which has created great sympathy for him among the people. However, the biggest reason for the public’s sympathy for Hakan Fidan is that Erdogan has always kept him out of the arena of active politics. Active politics is a dirty field. The arena of politics can tarnish a bright person in one day, and a tarnished one in another. In other words, if Hakan Fidan joins active politics, daily political scandals can quickly destroy the “mystical” atmosphere around him. At the same time, it is difficult to say that Hakan Fidan has the speaking skills and populist style that can reach large masses.
More importantly, the rise to power of intelligence officers, that is, “securocracy”, is not typical for the Turkish political system. Securocracy is characteristic mainly for post-Soviet countries, the most important example of which is Putin's rule in Russia. It is known that the modern Turkish state was founded by the military, and the Army has maintained de facto power in power for many years. However, against the background of the development of democratic systems in the world, the gradual establishment of the electoral system in Turkey has strengthened civilian politicians in the eyes of the people, especially the Erdogan era, which was the peak of civilian politics. Intelligence officers have not been on the agenda in active politics in Turkey at all. In short, Hakan Fidan's coming to power will be a revolutionary change for the Turkish political system.
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