The bill for the unraveling, drift and lack of principle in Turkish politics is being blamed on a single name. However, it is not the person who is targeted, but the moral, principled and clean political line he represents.
Imagine a Leader...
Let it become a nightmare for a country's dark habits.
Let him disturb us with his honesty, statesmanship and putting the interests of the country before everything else.
Let him be targeted for speaking without relying on lies, for practicing politics without worshipping power.
This is exactly why Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is under attack in Turkey today.
Principle, Not Personality, is the Target
The recent campaigns around the CHP headquarters and its parallel media channels have a common language:
Personalizing responsibility instead of talking about the structural problems of politics.
MPs switch to AK Party; Kılıçdaroğlu is to blame.
Mayors are switching sides; Kılıçdaroğlu is responsible.
Everything is blamed on a single name so that unprincipled, oppressive, threatening and self-interested schemes are not discussed.
This is not an analysis; it is a conscious evasion.
Pure Changers Change Value
Today's transitions are not the weakness of a leader,
is indicative of the speed with which some politicians are giving up moral resistance.
Nobody's transition to the AK Party,
It is not Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's fault.
There is only one explanation for these transitions:
Abandonment of principles.
A Refuge for Those Who Cannot Produce Politics: Agenda through Kılıçdaroğlu
The real crisis in the CHP is not a “name crisis” but a crisis of inability to produce politics.
There is no economic policy to give hope to the society,
There is no strong framework of law,
there is no consistency in foreign policy,
There is no genuine program for social justice.
But there is only one thing in every debate: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
Özgür Özel and the administration clustered around him have been unable to build their own political existence, so they are trying to destroy the existing one.
Because if there is nothing new to say, it is the easiest form of politics to denigrate the old.
This is not a choice but an admission of helplessness.
Being an Agenda or Creating an Agenda?
Politics is done not by talking about your opponent, but by talking about the nation's problems.
However, the picture seen in the CHP today is as follows:
There is no agenda, that is why there is an agenda.
And this is only possible when Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's name is mentioned.
If a president cannot step out of the shadow of his predecessor;
The problem there is not in the shadow, but in the will that cannot turn on the light.
It is a Line, not a Name, that wants to be liquidated
The target is not the person of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
This is what is being targeted:
Moral politics
Accountability
Principled stance
A connection with the people, not with the seat
Because this line disturbs those who see politics as a field of spoils.
This is why reputation erosion is preferred over policy making.
Scapegoat Politics
Turkish politics is not in a new phase;
persists in an old and bad habit:
Protecting the polluted order by blaming those who remain clean.
The anger directed at Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu today,
is actually a reflex of non-accountability.
It is difficult to defend him;
but it's very convenient to blame him.
A Note to History
Those who remain honest in this country have always been left alone.
But history has never written them wrong.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is not the target today;
It is the legacy of clean politics that will be needed tomorrow.
And Turkey will look back one day and see this clearly:
At a time when unprincipledness is applauded,
There was a leader who was willing to stay honest.
It is not Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu who is targeted today; it is his legacy of clean politics that will be needed tomorrow.
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