Despite all your righteousness, sometimes the best answer you give to everything and everyone after the injustices you have experienced is silence.
Your heart burns, somewhere inside you bleeds.
This silence is not a surrender; it is the silent but loudest rebellion of your suppressed anger, righteousness and honor.
The name of CHP, the father's hearth that you have been devoted to since your youth, that you have defended and paid the price for, that you wrote on the walls yesterday, is in the indictments today.
The fact that those in dirty relationships entangled in the spiral of corruption are sinking as they struggle in the corridors of the courts makes your heart bleed.
Ekrem İmamoğlu and IBB indictment,
Aziz İhsan Aktaş criminal organization indictment,
Indictment of the shady congress...
High Criminal Court, Magistrate's Court...
The list goes on and on.
Today, the CHP is drifting in the political sea like a ship with an uncertain course, with shady congresses, political discourses and maneuvers designed by its mentors.
That's what you find most difficult:
The people's hope, the 103-year-old plane tree, which stands like a concrete barrier against poverty and corruption, is being tried to be discredited in the eyes of the people with the operations carried out today.
Those who say they get paid on the corners of the pavilion,
After a congress held in hotel rooms with delegate lists created by mayors, in violation of the party's statutes and regulations;
A President General and his team who cannot grasp the meaning of the office he came to by jumping, hopping, like a triumphant child...
It is an unmanageable party, a miserable party in the hands of a group that thinks it produces politics with daily ups and downs.
The instructions received from Ekrem İmamoğlu from Silivri every Wednesday morning,
Ordered daily politics and the evening routine of political work on the bus, starting with “Yiğidim Aslanım” and ending with “Yürüyelim Arkadaşlar”...
However, Ekrem İmamoğlu was not the only one on trial.
17 other mayors were under arrest for different crimes.
Neither Zeydan Karalar,
Neither Muhittin Böcek,
Nor did the President and the central administration care much about the others.
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While until yesterday there was a strong will that gave political direction to the government and made the government do what was said “cannot be done”, today politics is not done with honor and integrity.
Whether we won or lost, no one would sell their comrades, there would be no political plots.
We would have criticism but not hatred and anger.
Neighborhood representative, district delegate, provincial congress, congress delegate...
Any one of these would have been enough to honor us.
When the municipalities were won, the language and color of politics changed.
Mayors started to shape politics and create their own circles.
The party's workers were purged.
Those who switched sides carried water for the mill.
New circles, forgotten ideologies and destroyed comradeship...
This process, which was called “Change”, brought betrayal.
Under the leadership of Ekrem İmamoğlu and Özgür Özel, the party has taken a different path.
For 13 years, those who benefited from the blessings of the party got richer, while the real working people always watched from the outside.
Either they were very smart or we were very naive.
We had only one wish: CHP to come to power.
But they were worried about their seats.
Everything was permissible on this path.
As Ahmet Kaya said:
“We passed by the park and the heartache is in us...”
But we didn't go. We won't go.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was a hope.
Honest, honest, honorable.
He was a leader who walked from east to west, from north to south, with Halil İbrahim tables, with halalization, with justice.
He called it political morality.
He said merit.
He said transparency.
He said independent judiciary.
He said accountability.
He was betrayed but he stood firm.
He resisted the troll hordes with a will of steel.
He shouted that the CHP needs to be purified.
His was a leadership that never lost its prestige in society.
He showed that virtue, morality and honor are not empty words.
And we promise as his companions:
CHP;
Virtue,
Honor,
Morality,
Your honor,
Your right,
Law,
We will be the defenders of justice.
Silence sometimes is not defeat;
It is the heaviest, most honorable form of marking history.
Murat Adiguzel