The Turkish Republic was established by civil, military and bureaucratic elites in addition to a class of artisans and businessmen allied with these elites. This class was in close cooperation with each other and internalized the idea of itself as the real owner of the state. Until 1950, the people were not included in any process of the regime except for paying taxes and performing military service.

The trials of establishing a democratic state during the Ottoman period that started in the First and Second Constitutional Era emerged in the backdrop of a complete dictatorship in the beginning of the Republican period. The founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, envisioned a republic in which democracy was applied at the most advanced level.

He attempted to have elections with the participation of more than one party but after his death, İsmet İnönü followed the fascist trend of Nazi Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy during his reign and governed the country as the national chief with a single party and as a single leader.

In a speech to the families of officers, İnönü, the second president of Turkey, said, "America is against us. Russia is against us. Europe is against us and between you and me, the Turkish people are also against us."

These words are very significant as they reflect the relationship between the bureaucratic elites of the period and the public.

The young Republic of Turkey, which was established in the place of the Ottoman Empire that dissipated after World War I, was supposed to educate the public and create a community that internalizes democracy.

Democracy, development, and being European seemed to be associated with the elites.

In the first free elections in 1950, the Democrat Party's coming to power deeply disappointed the republican civil, military, and bureaucratic elites. This disappointment in the election process strengthened their belief that freedom and democracy would lead the country out of their control.

Republican elites believed they would not be able control the country as in the single party period and took to overthrowing the government via coups and ruling the country as the only way to maintain their positions.

Elites of the Republican People's Party (CHP) who have idealized the single-party period could only share power after a military coup.

As a result, today, the true defenders of democracy in Turkey are the people of Turkey, because the state believed that it can only protect the rights of the Turkish people against central elites and the capital by democracy and parties of periphery.

Representatives of the military and civil bureaucracy, who are defined as the deep state, have always clung to the idea of overthrowing the government via coups as a possibility.

Suspension of law, the suppression of freedoms and economic disasters in every coup period in Turkey created a memory in society and the people of Turkey adopted democracy and freedom as the only way out.

In Turkey, the gladio-type structures that perform political engineering and plan coups are called deep states. Now we have a strong, deep community that supports democracy, freedom and civil politics against the deep state. They strengthen the fortress of democracy day by day.