The opposition parties have finally settled on the nomination of a joint presidential candidate to run in the forthcoming election. A large number of analysts suggest that the candidacy of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu was determined long ago; however, parties postponed his announcement while they waited for more favorable conditions. It it the slight current uncertainty of who the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) candidate will be that allowed for this delayed revelation . If any other candidate other than Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was to be offered by the AK Party, it would be more realistic for the opposition parties to give up their quest for a joint candidate and to present their own candidates separately for the first round of voting. Moreover, the opposition leaders may have preferred to legitimize a nationally representative candidate by consulting with various institutions before publicizing their candidate, over whom they had already agreed. All skepticism aside, it should be acknowledged that İhsanoğlu is nothing more than the second best available option. Paradoxically, the best available choice for the opposition was Abdullah Gül. Those who had tried their best to keep Gül from the presidency during the previous election, were precisely the one who are now trying to convince him to run for the presidency, This reveals a very deplorable picture of the opposition. The same kind of exertion is now being practiced to sideline Erdoğan which shows more clearly how miserable their situation is. Turkey is going through such a social transformations which can only be embraced and shouldered by the AK Party. These transformations are being constructed by the rising self-reliance and integration capability of the Islamist section. Furthermore, apart from being the impetus that determines the course on which the country will proceed, these dramatic changes are the main social phenomena that will define the future as well. Thusly, it brings newly and expanding demands and preferences to light. The AK Party, which has the ability to represent and maintain this new dynamism, wins all elections as a natural consequence. The anti-AK Party factions' last chances to narrowly depose the existing government are the three elections scheduled between 2014 and 2015 are. If the AK Party is victorious in all three of these elections, it will no longer be possible to turn back to the old system that relied heavily on the power of bureaucracy. That is why the corruption investigations were began when they did – timed with the coming elections. The target was to undermine the government with various judicial attacks with little to no notice. Then a new era of clandestine coalitions would be ushered in and Turkey would produce a new, pre-democratic status quo that would maintain bureaucratic hegemony. The failure of this plot took a lot out of the opposition parties. They are now only concerned with their own survival after all of the elections are completed in 2015. They are gradually beginning to understand the invincibility of the AK Party. To them, defeat seemed inevitable with the most reasonable thing to being to bring down the collateral damage. Indeed, it was this that pushed them to embark on the quest for a joint candidate. Thus they did not want defeat to remain as a burden on the shoulders of any of the opposition parties. Even more, they did not want this joint candidate to be a political figure so that he would not go into politics and be a rival to the present party leaders. However, İhsanoğlu provides some material that enables to write in favor of the opposition. The opposition candidate is so irrelevant to the politics that he makes it easy to advocate for the parliamentary system which and its passive presidential figure. Thus, the electorate may be invited to choose not only between the two candidates, but the parliamentary and presidential system as well. This paints a very fallacious picture. Society does not make a selection between systems, but alternative futures. Both systems may have their pros and cons. Until now, Turkey has suffered a lot from the current system and does not want to leave the future in the hands of bureaucracy. In fact, the opposition is in a helpless and desperate situation as the majority of society wants to steer their own destiny.