Will the Constitutional Court seize political life?

It used to do it. The Constitutional Court most recently seized the presidential vote in Parliament in 2007, ruling that the quorum was 367, contrary to what had been assumed up to that day.

The reason for this ruling was that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) group in Parliament alone would not have been enough to elect Abdullah Gül.

This intervention was called the “367 strangeness,” and it has taken a unique place in our history of coups and memorandums. We experienced a period when this strangeness, rather than the military, seized the administration. Such chapters were supposed to be closed.

Now, a new strangeness is approaching. Rumor has it that the Constitutional Court is preparing to intervene in an area that is completely under the jurisdiction of politics and Parliament: To eliminate the 10 percent electoral threshold.

For this, it will use a power that it does not have. It will circumvent the individual application rule and opt to annul the law. In other words, it will bypass Parliament, inactivating the political institutions, exceeding its jurisdiction and changing the election regime as defined by law.

In fact, it will be up to Parliament's General Assembly whether or not to change the law - a law that it did not deem necessary to amend up until this day.

The architect of the “367 strangeness” was the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Salih Kanadoğlu. He had found a formula that nobody had thought of up to that day in order to block the election of Abdullah Gül.

In the strangeness of today, it does not look like Constitutional Court President Haşim Kılıç will have to cook up a brand new discovery. The Court will debate lifting the 10...