If you visit Brussels and the other leading cities of Europe and have contacts within political circles, the media and NGOs, you come to realize a significant phenomenon.A considerable difference in perspective and principle has been formed between civil society and politics, not only on the matters regarding Turkey but also on the matters directly related to Europe and the world. For instance, there was a social reaction to the coup staged last year in Egypt that saw elected President Mohammed Morsi overthrown and thousands of people being killed. Civil society mostly believes that it was an explicit and unacceptable coup. The same goes for the U.S. One of the biggest criticisms leveled at Obama is his tolerance towards the coup in Egypt. However, as the heat grows, the ill feeling has a habit of manifesting itself in self-defeating policies. The public reaction is not reflected in the official policies of the U.S. The EU is run with contrary politics and moves in a direction that contradicts the values of democracy. The same contradiction was evident during the Palestine issue and Gaza massacres. Mass demonstrations were staged to protest the Gaza massacres, both in the U.S. and within the EU. And since the Middle East was disjointed, the protests in the West and Turkey were much more organized and influential than those in the East. This outward display of emotion provided great hope for democracy. This reaction from the people of the EU and the U.S. is the greatest guarantee against the tide of racism that is rising from the other side of the West. However, the sensitivity of the Western public on the Gaza issue does not accord with the political choices of their governments. Of course, there are some positive developments in EU countries, such as the recognition of Palestine and delisting Hamas from the terrorist list. However, it cannot be said that the EU has addressed this issue according to the public will, and they cannot even have the influential role Turkey has had. Isn't this a critical indicator for Western democracy? Doesn't it pose a serious problem that in the notion of democracy, in which participation and top-down relations are of vital importance, the demands of civil society cannot influence state policies? Doesn't the fact that the realpolitik is so far removed from the public actually constitute the main veins that feed the racism movements in Europe? The loss of interest in politics among the European public and dramatic decline in election participation rates can be related to this break between civil society and the state. When it comes to Turkey, we can see the opposite picture. In Turkey, the majority of the public, not only the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) supporters who make up 50 percent of society, but 75 percent of people supports Turkey's principled stance on the matters in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. However, some liberals, left-wing intellectuals and NGOs, who feel that they started to lose their privileges in the democratization process over the last 12 years, strictly object to this agreement between public and politics. They are competing to defame Turkey in front of the West with their narrow worldviews and political tendencies. This mission, which has been received by addressees in the U.S. and EU politics, has successfully tarnished Turkey's image around the world. However, this does not correspond to the real truth, and the people of Turkey are aware of this. This monolithic insight, depending on the view of mono-type lifestyle and mono-type democracy, labels everything that does not conform to its own template as "anti-democratic." High-ranking policy makers, on the other hand, use whichever discourse they find functional and profitable in terms of realpolitik. Eventually, Turkey has come to the point where it can say that "[it] would not even care if the EU directly rejects the membership of Turkey after all these tactics of diversion."Everyone in Turkey has already started to question the point of joining a union that does not recognize a coup in which thousands of civilians were killed and which has hosted 160,000 Syrians in its countries while Turkey has welcomed 2 million immigrants.