This is no longer criticism, but outright political dishonesty.
All those who target Kılıçdaroğlu and shout “the alliance was a subcontractor, a trap for the Republic” are knowingly lying. Because the truth is obvious:
Özgür Özel was the one who defended that alliance.
The commissions that made the lists included the entire CHP leadership of today.
So everyone who is shouting today was a signatory yesterday.
Do you know what that means?
This is not a discussion of political failure, but a collective exoneration operation by placing the blame on one person.
This is not self-criticism in politics, it is spinelessness.
Let's write more clearly:
They themselves approved the names they call “subcontractors” today.
Today, they applauded from the rostrum as long as they said “ambush on the Republic”.
The decisions they are shouting “treason” about today have the imprint of their hands, the ink of their fingers.
Imamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş were not on the sidelines of this process.
Both were at the center of the Vice Presidential formula in 2023.
So the tale of “they did not run” is incomplete; they did not run because they were on the table for another executive office.
If ignoring this process is not ignorance, it is conscious denial.
Engin Özkoç and Muharrem Erkek did not become candidates by chance.
They deliberately did not enter the parliamentary lists.
The reason was no secret: If the election was won, they would become ministers.
If they had won, they would have been in the executive, but when they lost, they took the “we were not there” pose.
This is not a principle in politics, but a calculus of interests.
What is being done now?
Memory is being reset, voters are being fooled,
“We didn't exist, he did it.”.
This is not politics, but the crime of distorting history.
Let's be clear about this:
This discourse does not only lynch Kılıçdaroğlu;
It disgraces the CHP institutionally.
For the first time, he makes the party ashamed of its past.
And here's the dirty part:
This language uses Atatürk as a shield to hide personal cowardice.
“Legitimizing the lie by saying ”Atatürk and the Republic",
It is not loyalty to the Republic, it is abuse of the Republic.
Let's deliver the final blow, so there's no escape:
If that alliance is a disaster,
- you are all part of the disaster.
If those lists are treason,
- you all have fingerprints.
But no, if you say “it was right” that day,
what you've done today is a despicable escape.
That is why the issue is no longer about Kılıçdaroğlu.
The point is this:
The current CHP leadership is trying to survive by lying to its own past.
This is not a political debate.
This is a story of character abandonment for a seat.
And history will not forgive this:
Not the one who defends his mistake,
a liar who denies his mistake.
There has been a systematic, conscious and organized distortion in Turkish politics for some time now. A single name is placed at the center of every crisis, every rupture, every political transition, every organizational problem: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
This is no longer criticism. This is political engineering.
This is the operation of those who do not want to distribute responsibility, but to centralize and whitewash it.
Let's say this up front and clearly:
History is not written by lynching.
Politics is not built on distortion.
Morality does not bend and twist according to the individual.
And yes: this article is a direct challenge to this distortion.
I. MERSIN FILE: TIME TO FACE THE FACTS
Ali Mahir Basarir comes out and says:
“We begged Mr. Kemal not to nominate Hasan Ufuk Çakır. There were long discussions in the MYK and PM, but we couldn't prevent it.”
These sentences are all political manipulation.
PM witnesses are clear:
There was no discussion.
The testimony of FMC witness Faik Öztrak is clear:
“Hikmet Çetin had a reference, he became a candidate without objection.”
In other words, there is not an “imposition” but a collective and unchallenged process.
Those who are trying to pin the responsibility on Kılıçdaroğlu today are hiding their own signatures and silence.
II. THE NOMINATION MECHANISM: NUMBERS NOT PEOPLE
In 2018, CHP won 3 deputies from Mersin.
In 2023, this number increased to 5.
The list is open:
Ali Mahir Basarir
Gulcan Kış
Alliance candidate Mehmet Emin Ekmen
Talat Dinçer
Hasan Ufuk Cakir
It is not one person who determines this list.
Vahap Seçer.
Engin Özkoç.
There is a nomination commission.
There is a regional balance calculation.
And the most critical fact is this:
In the Millet Alliance, the CHP made a deal on NUMBERS, not names.
Each party decided within itself who would be a deputy.
The CHP did not identify any of the deputies who switched to the AKP.
Those who knew this and kept silent cannot lecture on morality today.
Trying to drop a candidate with documents served hours before the YSK is not politics, it is intrigue and blackmail.
III. THOSE WHO PASS, THOSE WHO STAY, THOSE WHO ARE SILENT: MORALITY IS NOT SELECTIVE
Question:
- Who was the wedding witness in prison?
- Why was there silence when Adnan Beker voted for Erdoğan?
- Why was Cemal Enginyurt cherished when he insulted Özgür Özel?
- Who was held accountable when Beykoz and Gaziosmanpaşa went to AKP?
The answer is clear:
It is not a matter of principle.
It is a matter of interest and faction.
Those who come to the CHP are declared “heroes” and those who go to the AKP are declared “traitors”.
This is not morality; it is opportunism.
If you are principled, then be clear:
Do not accept those who want to switch to CHP.
Morality does not change according to its direction.
Additional Explanation: In the March 31, 2024 local elections, mayors who were nominated as candidates by Özgür Özel, Ekrem İmamoğlu, Ali Mahir Başarır, Veli Ağbaba, Gökan Zeybek and Bülent Tezcan and who have switched from CHP to AK Party in the last 1 year:
1 August 14, 2025 Özlem Çerçioğlu - Mayor of Aydın Metropolitan Municipality - CHP to AK Party
2 August 14, 2025 Mustafa İberya Arıkan - Mayor of Söke (Aydın) - CHP to AK Party
3 August 14, 2025 Malik Ercan - Mayor of Yenipazar (Aydın) - CHP to AK Party
4 August 14, 2025 Osman Yıldırımkaya - Mayor of Sultanhisar (Aydın) - CHP to AK Party
5 August 14, 2025 Umut Yılmaz - Mayor of Şehitkamil Municipality (Gaziantep) - CHP to AK Party
August 6, 2025 Yasemin Fazlaca - Mayor of Altınova (Yalova) - CHP to AK Party
September 7, 2025 Hasan Ustaoğlu - Mayor of Seydişehir (Konya) - CHP to AK Party
This is the list of those who were nominated by the current administration and who switched to the AKP. Do those who blame Kılıçdaroğlu have an answer to this list? The answer to this question lies here.
IV. TABLE OF 6 AND 39 DEPUTIES: COMPLICITY OF SILENCE
I ask those who today shout “trusted deputy”:
CHP Group Deputy Chairman Özgür Özel,
Where were you when you openly advocated giving 39 deputies to the alliance partners during the Table of 6 process?
Who objected?
Who stood up?
Who said “wrong”?
No one.
Those who speak today were silent that day.
Those who are shouting today, signed it that day.
That is why this discussion is not sincere.
That is why Kılıçdaroğlu is the target.
V. THE REALITY OF ISAMOGLU AND SLOW: YOU CANNOT DISTORT HISTORY
Let everyone know this:
Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş were nominated despite internal party opposition.
“It was objected to as ”right-wing".
“It is against party tradition,” it was said.
“It was called ”risk".
Who made him a candidate?
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
All those in the CHP leadership today owe their political existence to the Kılıçdaroğlu era.
Those who do not say this are dishonest, if not ungrateful.
The transfer of Beykoz and Gaziosmanpaşa to AKP by Imamoğlu's municipal council members is not discussed.
But Kılıçdaroğlu is put in the crosshairs.
What is this if not a double standard?
VI. MEDIA IS ALSO A DEFENDANT
Şaban Sevinç, Nasuh Bektaş, Cem Toker, İsmail Saymaz, Mustafa Balbay...
Same story. Same blind spot.
It is safe to hit Kılıçdaroğlu.
Questioning Imamoğlu is risky.
It is forbidden to force Özgür Özel.
It is not journalism to constantly turn a crisis into an opportunity, to act like a merchant, to take a position according to the conjuncture, to lean wherever the power is.
There is no respect or loyalty left for Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who pulled you out of the Ergenekon jail, who stood by you against political bans, conspiracies and lynchings.
This is not journalism; it is conjunctural loyalty.
VII. AN OPEN CALL TO ISMAİL SAYMAZ
If truth is your concern...
If your concern is public enlightenment...
Go interview Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
Call him to Halk TV.
Ask him to face the accusations you wrote.
This is where courage is measured.
If you don't hand a microphone to the silenced, you are not a journalist; you are a storyteller.
VIII. LAST WORD: THIS IS A CHALLENGE
This article is not a call for reconciliation.
This writing is not soft.
This article is meant to disturb.
History is not made by lynching.
You cannot build politics with distortions.
Morality does not change according to the person.
Journalism does not rely on power.
And this case is not closed.
Because the truth grows the more it is silenced.