This issue is not merely based on today's "List of 154." The legal problem with MHP has existed from the beginning and continues due to its political stance.

THE ORGANIZATION OF ATLANTIC LAW

The legal problem with MHP can be examined in three phases:

1. From its founding to 1980: During this period, MHP was a tool used by the U.S. in its fight against communism, leading to conflicts with Turkish law. As Turkey transformed into "little America" and Atlantic law morphed into a new hybrid law over Turkish law, MHP found its place within this hybrid law, embedded in the Nationalist Front (MC) governments.

2. From September 12, 1980, to the AKP's rise in 2002: This phase marks the second stage of the legal problem with MHP. This period is quite complex, with MHP's issues with the law and the law's issues with MHP intertwined. While its ideas were in power, its leaders were temporarily imprisoned, but its enforcers remained at the command of Gladio.

   The latter half of this period, influenced by changing global conditions, saw some degree of struggle against Gladio. During this time, MHP partially withdrew from the streets but established a "parallel organization" within the state, especially within the security bureaucracy.

MHP'S OPPOSITION TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAW

3. The current phase: In this phase, MHP initially supported AKP by opposing it, and later by forming a direct alliance to keep AKP in power.

   During the years it supported AKP by opposing it, Bahçeli facilitated Abdullah Gül's path to the presidency in 2007; in 2014, he convinced Kılıçdaroğlu to accept Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu as the presidential candidate, paving the way for Erdoğan's victory; in June 2015, he enabled the AKP, which was unable to form a government, to go for early elections and achieve a majority.

   During its alliance with AKP, Bahçeli became the second most responsible person for the erosion of the rule of law. He opened the door to the one-man regime with the unlawful idea of "If Erdoğan doesn't comply with the constitution, let's tailor the constitution to Erdoğan." He then made several moves contributing to the "legal problem with MHP": He called for the closure of the Constitutional Court when it didn't rule in their favor, demanded the removal of the 10% electoral threshold when his party fell below it, and even suggested that the relegation of his favored football team (Karagümrük) be canceled.

MHP'S Gulenists-LIKE 'LIST OF 154'

In summary, during the AKP years, MHP became the lever that enabled Erdoğan to change the regime, occupied some of the positions vacated by Gulenists in the state, and acted as an apparatus of pressure on society and politics in line with the Turkish-Islamic synthesis ideology.

Bahçeli, who even had state officials and police chiefs bowing down to kiss his hand, added another link to the "legal problem with MHP" by including journalists, intellectuals, politicians, and academics who sought to uncover the "Sinan Ateş case," and those opposing its cover-up, into the "List of 154," similar to what Gulenists did during its alliance with the AKP.

Those who erode the rule of law and try to strangle it with legal manipulations are now blacklisting those seeking justice, putting them on the "List of 154," and openly threatening them with "We will hold you accountable."

It must be remembered that the legal problem with MHP is also a problem of democracy, human rights, and the right to life.