In Turkey, traffic flows on the right; the steering wheel is on the left. Therefore, a car that constantly occupies the left collides with the oncoming vehicle and has an accident. Especially if a truck or heavy vehicle is coming the other way, the car will be totaled. God forbid...
Turkish politics is also like this.
Politics without taking the right into account has kept left-wing parties out of power for years. The late Bülent Ecevit's success in this field is an exception; it was short-lived.
Ecevit sonrası dönem, iktidara en çok yaklaşılan zirve olarak tarihe geçti. Sayın Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’nun 2023 Cumhurbaşkanlığı adaylığında aldığı %48 oy, CHP ve sol siyaset açısından tarihî bir başarıdır. İkinci turda yaklaşık 2,5 milyon oy farkıyla kaybedildi.
Chair, Ego and Lost Power
It is clear that there were at least 2.5 million opposition votes among the approximately 10 million votes that were not cast. But the “know-it-all” conformist monarchist leftists prevented this too.
The rhetoric of “change” before the second round started pacified the voters. Morale deteriorated and motivation collapsed. The reluctant and ambivalent behavior of those who received parliamentary seats did not go unnoticed. The first daggers against Kılıçdaroğlu had begun to stab in those days.
The Bankruptcy of Monarch Politics
Believe me, they will laugh at you.
2.5 million CHP votes could not be found in the whole country? Not even as much as the IYI Party and Saadet grassroots. The opposite neighborhood, on the other hand, worked until the end. Some ran to the polls for the love of the cause, some for the hope of good deeds. Because the one who believes wins.
The words of the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk are not in vain:
“Victory belongs to those who can say ‘victory is mine’.”
Election Lost to Elitism
The nearly 15 million votes from right-wing voters is not a coincidence. This is the “Mr. Kemal miracle”.
Halalization and Halil İbrahim Sofrası politics is a success. However, the elections were lost due to the dissatisfaction that is a chronic disease of the Turkish left, everyone thinking that they are an allâme, and the eagerness to be a commander without being a soldier.
Armies with more officers than soldiers cannot win wars.
“The Defeat of the Left Detached from the People”
Don't think that the election was lost because of right-wing voters.
Don't think that it was because of those who were insulted as “pasta makers, sheep”.
The real losers are the leftists who are elitist, arrogant and disconnected from the people.
The Left's Endless Civil War
Everyone is innocent and Kılıçdaroğlu is the only one guilty?
“He said ”early“, he said ”take your time", you didn't listen. You ate the ready man. Today Ekrem İmamoğlu is struggling with political pressures, others are looking for a seat. Is this loyalty? Is this friendship?
The Ballot Box and Reality
You still don't understand the reality of right-wing voters.
Publicly drinking during Ramadan,
Do not respect religious and cultural values (raki at the grave),
This nation will not vote for a mentality that belittles the lifestyle of the people.
Not even if he starves.
“Don't make excuses with the simplicity of ”if he doesn't, he won't".
If the opposition continues with this mentality, they will lose the local elections as they lost the general elections.
I am writing from today.
I'm making a note in history.
In Turkey, both traffic and politics flow on the right.