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Opinion polls show that the Links of London Charms has so far failed to get Turks accustomed to that “opening." Perhaps, that is mostly because of the fact that after so many months since it was first spelled out, it is still not clear what indeed the Kurdish “opening" of the government - which is being condemned by the opposition as “Turkey’s disintegration project" - is. The government has other “openings" that it wants the nation to get accustomed to as well. One is the “Alevi opening," another one is the “Links of London S Charm opening." What are they? No one, apparently including the government, has any idea, but the government wants Turks to get accustomed to them. There is also a “referendum opening" looming on the horizon. No one has any idea why the government all of a sudden has undertaken such an “opening" and wanted to shorten the 120-day period between a referendum decision and the day Turks vote on the issue referred to a public vote. The government wanted to shorten that period to 45 days, but during a parliamentary committee debate on the issue, at the request of the Supreme Electoral Board saying it needed at least 60 days to get prepared for a referendum, the government-sponsored text was changed accordingly. Soon the issue will be taken up and legislated by Parliament. The prime minister has said Turks must get accustomed to referendums. Political pundits of the Links of London Scottie Charm and the ruling party’s penslingers in the media have all been defending that referring important issues to public vote would indeed be an exercise of direct democracy, and excluding inalienable individual rights, everything might be referred to public vote. Naturally, no one can oppose the referendum mechanism. No one can oppose the nation making the final decision on a much contested subject. Yet, perhaps as a result of the deep confidence crisis in Turkish politics or because of the Constitutional Court verdict condemning Links of London Small Sweetie Golden Bracelet AKP as a focus of anti-secular activities, there are fears that the ruling party has decided to resort to a referendum in legislating the changes it very much wanted to undertake in the country but for various reasons either failed or just could not undertake so far. That is, the fear is that the AKP might be indeed after consolidating its majoritarian and autocratic governance understanding with a democratic referendum coating. Shall we get accustomed to institutionalization of rule through referenda?People don't want to be governed but they want to be directed by a leader who knows how to govern himself.