At first when I read The New York Times commentary written by the editorial board I felt a so-called prestigious newspaper like this was being misled by the disinformation campaign of the Doğan Media Group, which is notorious for championing the cause of military coups in the recent history of Turkey, and the Zaman Media Group, which itself was allegedly a part of a plot to topple the elected government in the past two years.But then it dawned on me that The New York Times is not the same old New York Times of the past, and that in recent times its record for promoting the cause of democracy has been seriously tarnished with its sad performances on the international scale.The New York Times, just like any other publication, has every right to criticize and even lambast President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's administration and speak up for the cause of democracy. However, does it have the right to invite NATO and the United States to step in and ask them to intervene in Turkey? Are the editors of The New York Times aware that their call amounts to an invitation to a new military coup in Turkey?At first I was puzzled, but then after seeing what has happened in recent history I felt we were sadly mistaken to think that The New York Times is the same old newspaper that champions the cause of democracy and supports supreme values. I first remembered how the paper supported the military coups in Turkey, especially in 1980. Then I remembered how the paper fell silent as Egypt's military junta toppled the elected government of then President Mohammed Morsi and how the junta leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was president. The scandal trials in Egypt and the death sentences handed down to 1,000 people, including Morsi, is a judicial scandal, and yet we see that the New York Times editors were hardly moved.Thus it is no surprise that the Doğan Media Group and its admiral ship newspaper Hürriyet has found an ally in the New York Times editorial board.It should have lived up to the ideals of the founding fathers of the United States, which are democracy, freedom of speech, the rights of the citizen and supreme values. Yet I see them telling NATO and President Barack Obama to intervene against the administration in Turkey. Such a call is meaningless, especially at this point in time, and is an insult to the will of the Turkish people, which will be manifested in the polls on June 7.They do not realize that in this country the supreme will of the people has always manifested itself in elections, and any wrongdoing has always been punished by the Turkish voters.If the people are upset by the military, they have displayed this by voting against the will of the coup leaders. That is why when the junta leader, the late Kenan Evren, told the nation not to vote for the party led by Turgut Özal, the Turkish people the next day voted Özal into power. That is why the military tried to prevent Abdullah Gül from becoming president, and the Turkish people gave a landslide victory to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the parliamentary elections in 2007 and had him elect Gül as head of state.So if the Turkish people are dissatisfied with the current state of affairs in Turkey they will clearly show it at the polls. Neither any foreign power nor the editors of The New York Times should intervene, especially on the eve of elections. Everyone should be prepared to accept it once the verdict is out on June 7.