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With Hakan Fidan making a quick exit from politics back to the post of undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization, is it possible to assume that the Fidan incident was a humiliation for Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and a declaration of victory for President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in the first major battle for power in the ruling party?

National Intelligence Organization (M?T) head Hakan Fidan has the right to withdraw from being a nominee for parliament and can return to his former official post even if he runs in and loses an election, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said, ruling out any discord between himself and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over the matter.

After President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s strong opposition to his decision to quit the strategic position, Turkey?s former intelligence chief Hakan Fidan has withdrawn his application to the ruling party to run for parliament and returns the office he quitted 30 days ago.

We have been here before. It was no more than a decade and a half ago that our country?s politics steered our economy into the ditch. We must not have learned our lesson. Perhaps it?s a problem with our abstraction skills. We are unable to identify a fixed pattern over time, so we are doomed to go through it endlessly.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an reportedly met with Hakan Fidan, the former head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) in Medina, Saudi Arabia, on March 2.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has repeated his disappointment with former head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Hakan Fidan?s resignation from the post to run for parliament during the June 7 elections.

The awareness was there. So was the ambition to make cyber security the country?s ?fifth force.? Events in a span of less than two years have shown that Turkey is still too far away from building reliable defenses against cyber threats.

The former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (M?T), Hakan Fidan, who recently resigned from his post in order to run in the June 7 general elections by becoming a nominee on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ticket, visited the provincial branch of the party in Ankara Feb. 23.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an decided to return to Turkey from his long tour to three Latin American countries a day earlier than planned. There has been much speculation about his decision, but presidential sources claim that there was no special reason for his early return to home. 

The Turkish state?s most enigmatic figure has created such a star effect in politics that even President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is heartbroken. Hakan Fidan?s resignation from the top post in intelligence and move into politics is probably the biggest political event of 2015. And this may even overshadow the upcoming elections. Here is why.