Local elections held on March 30 signaled that the vast majority of Turkish citizens see Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the figure who introduced reforms in Turkey. Within this scope, the majority is supportive of him continuing his activities related to democratic reforms and Turkey's economic development. Support for him has not decreased over the last 12 years, sending a message to actors whose relationship with the government in Ankara was harmed after the Gezi Park incidents. Those expecting Erdoğan to leave his seat received the message Turkey's public delivered on March 30. The plans are being reorganized both inside and outside the country. According to developments behind the scenes, political and economic actors are now reforming their relations with the government. In other words, it is evident that a remarkable normalization process has started, and the political turbulence that began with the Gezi incidents and was intensified with the Dec. 17 operation against the government is now coming to an end. Let me illustrate this with a few examples. I would like to begin with the resolution process with the Kurds. The Gezi incidents and Dec. 17 operation harmed the political atmosphere and the resolution process to a certain degree. The belief that the government was in decline prompted a mobilization within the PKK. Those believing that the government is in decline suggested the cancellation of the process. The PKK's headquarters in Kandil waited for the local elections to see if the government would lose power after all these incidents. If the election results had not favored the government, our agenda would be different now. But it didn't happen. With the public support of the stability message after the March 30 elections, the second phase of the resolution process was initiated and some concrete steps for the disarmament of the PKK began to be handled. Concrete steps will begin in September, just after the presidential elections in August. These steps include expanding the repentance law, the sentence postponement and control procedures of the PKK members coming from Kandil to Turkey, and determining which countries the foreign PKK members would be sent to. Despite the incidents that took place in Diyarbakır last week, a comprehensive and deep recovery is being made in the resolution process. The normalization is not limited to this. Erdoğan's criticisms of CNN International after the Gezi incidents became a subject of debate. The Ankara government was thinking that this channel has a polarizing and one-sided editorial policy in Turkey and relays world events in a wrong way. As a result of the government's reaction against CNN, the channel's Istanbul reporter Ivan Watson's leaving Turkey was reflected as "oppression of the press." The truth of the matter is, however, CNN was become one of the first actors coming to the table to revise the relations with Ankara and provide normalization. As the editorial policy of CNN raised some questions for Ankara after the Gezi incidents, a meeting was held with the channel at the Prime Ministry's Office. The senior representative of the channel said they were aware of the tension between Turkey and CNN, and they wanted to resolve it. The representative said "We know that some of our field correspondents do sometimes act in a politicized way, we will fix it." Both sides agreed on the importance of impartial broadcasting and freedom of expression. The experienced reporter Watson was reassigned to Hong Kong upon the CNN's managerial decision and of Watson's own accord. A similar process was also observed with Twitter. Ankara got uneasy when Twitter, where illegal recordings were posted during Dec. 17 operations, did not implement the decisions of Turkish courts. And the website was blocked for this reason. During this process, the lack of dialogue with Twitter was realized. And negotiations were initiated to be made with the institution. According to sources from Ankara, some positive steps were taken after the negotiations. The government regards the implementation of court decisions as precedence in fighting against crime seems obvious. According to a senior government official, Twitter now respects the decisions made by Turkish courts. It deactivates accounts including posts related to criminal activity in light of court decisions. The resolution process is a vital issue for Turkey. The normalization of this issue is essential for Turkey's stability, integrity and democratization. So, I mentioned the normalization on this fundamental issue as an example. I also listed the developments regarding CNN and Twitter since these two issues have been symbolized on the matter of press freedom for a year. However, I did not mention the details of collaborations with the U.S. behind the scenes, institutionalization of the partnership on the matter of Syria and the busy traffic between the two capital cities. Even though it is not reflected in public, relations with Washington have been also been influenced by this normalization, as well.