For the last decade, Turkey has been changing its shell like a hermit crab. Military domination was put to an end; civil-bureaucratic domination attempts by the Gülen Movement, headed by retired imam Fethullah Gülen, was prevented to a great extent; the reconciliation process, which aims at ending the civil war that claimed the lives of 50,000 people for 30 years, has been ongoing for two years and policies favoring economically and politically disadvantaged groups are being implemented.What makes this transformation process even more valuable is the fact that these reform steps are being taken despite Turkey's critical geopolitical position and its disadvantages. Turkey's neighbors are dealing with either wars or inner conflicts and there are also regional and global economic problems.Thanks to this success, a vast majority of the Turkish public has been voting for the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) for the last nine elections. Turkey, which was always ruled by coalitions previously, has been ruled by one party for 12 years, and it now tastes the sweet fruit of stability.Rather than participating in this positive atmosphere, the opposition in Parliament is constantly making negative propaganda. They present a perspective defending the "past" against the AK Party, which promises a "future" with social welfare, freedom, independence and integration in the modern world. Conservative political and economic programs and stepping back from the reforms in a statist and nationalist perspective are some of their backward suggestions. The young Turkish public, on average in their 20s, of course side with the future. While it is more reasonable to assume that the opposition would gain strength as the ruling party would gradually lose its power within 12 years, Turkey is experiencing quite the opposite.They oppose the public, not the governmentThis state of being trapped prevents the opposition from determining its own agenda and forcing the ruling party. Instead of creating alternatives in areas such as regional policies and domestic reform, they are trapped in a one-dimensional level where they only oppose the policies of the ruling party. My remarks would become clearer if I briefly mention an issue the opposition has been fixed on since last week.For hundreds of years until the foundation of the modern Turkish Republic, Ottoman subjects had spoken the Ottoman language, a classical and older version of Turkish. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk prohibited this language in one night within the scope of his nation-state project. This sudden and unexpected language revolution was supported with the change of the old Arabic alphabet, which suddenly detached the modern republic's cultural ties with 1,000 years of history.Recently, the National Education Ministry initiated a discussion over adding Ottoman as an elective course at state secondary schools. Upon that, the opposition made a swift counter-attack with the reflexes I tried to define above. They argue that this step is a move to turn Turkey into its imperialist stage again. And unfortunately, they do not see that they oppose not the government, but actually the self-confidence of the public since they have an inferiority complex and are ashamed of their own history. In Turkey, students can take classical languages as elective subjects at school. For example, Ancient Greek, which I also took, is a favorite.Now consider this again. What can be acquired by opposing adding an elective language, which is the older version of a language that is spoken by a community, to the curricula? While knowing classical languages are regarded as a sign of intellectuality across the world, which voter could respect an opposition that displays contempt to its previous language? Here is a detail of the last week's performance by the opposition. As the picture indicates, do you think it is a coincidence that the AK Party has been elected in the past nine elections it has participated in so far? It is needless to say that all the political channels in the elections were wide open in front of the world.