When the Western reactions to the recent political developments in Turkey are investigated, they can, in general, be deemed positive. Within the policy reports occasionally announced at the U.N., the following judgment is crucial in this respect: "It is indispensable to evaluate every political incident within its own temporal and spatial sphere."In a decent European country, the principle of separation of powers is to a large extent consolidated and works well. Each and every branch of executive, legislative and judiciary performs within its own realm of authority to such an extent that Western people seem to be satisfied with the general functioning of the system. Besides, the judiciary holds the upper hand for checking and controlling the whole system of separation of powers and citizens are by no means apprehensive about the possibility of a coup to be carried out either by the military or judiciary. In such an advanced democratic system, media emerges as the fourth component of separation of powers as an additional mechanism of checks and balances.Regarding the Turkish case, the first 40 years of the Republic were marked by one-party rule, the army existed as a de facto entity standing above elected governments from the 1960s to the 1990s, and vital decisions on economy, foreign policy and democratization, and thus the country's fate itself, were determined according the "red lines of the nation," as they were authoritatively defined by the military bureaucracy. Regarding Turkey's struggle for democracy that has lasted more than 60 years, the people have fought to govern themselves by liberating the halting democratic system from the chains of military tutelage of the state.The Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) political power has lasted more than a decade and Turkey's democratic development has been appreciated both in the Middle East and the West, including the EU. As a Muslim country, the democratic development and the subsequent economic recovery are held in high esteem in the Arabic peninsula that served as a trigger for the initiation of the Arab Spring by directly influencing the Arab streets themselves. Turkey's price for the democratization process was heavy, as the government worked under the pressure of the army and occasionally faced cases of closure.While the army's influence over politics was restricted, the Gülen Movement aimed at infiltrating the state structure. After standing by the government as a friendly force and supporting the elimination of pro-coup mindsets through its force in the institutions of the police, judiciary and media in the beginning of the process, the Gülen Movement attempted to coerce the government and the people once coup attempts were eliminated by assuming an extreme force in itself. In a survey conducted by GENAR, 40 percent of the participants believed that their phone lines were illegally monitored and half of them believed the Gülen Movement was responsible for illegal wiretaps. The Gülen Movement realized a series of operations against leading figures of the economy, politics, sports and civil society by using a coercive system of "community spiral." The climax of those operations was the attempted coup on Dec. 17, 2013.After the army was put in its natural sphere of authority, the government now struggles to restrict the force of certain political groups assuming an anti-democratic role for themselves, while the Gülen Movement withholds its illegal forces and makes a big fuss in the international arena over an alleged breach of the freedom of press in Turkey. Both in the March 30 local elections and the presidential election in August, the Turkish electorate stood firm with the government against the attempted coups by both the military and the Gülen Movement, since it esteems democracy as the only game in town for protecting the acquisitions of the last decade.It is indispensable for a Westerner to understand that the government neither suppresses the media nor restricts the freedom of expression. It rather struggles to establish a democratic system and a rule of law that stands above the negative influence of the army and quasi-mafia organizations.