In Turkey, it is no longer a question of fighting the opponent; it has turned into a race to liquidate those within Turkey.
It has come to such a point that people who have given years of their lives to this party, who have grown up in this tradition, who have paid the price, are now labeled as “collaborators”, “AKP members” or even “sell-outs” when they make a sentence of criticism.
Question:
Who is this anger against? The opponent or the mirror?
On the one hand, a political language that calls its own chairman “free boy”...
On the other hand, a profile of a politician who can say, “I didn't vote for the CHP's presidential candidate, I went and voted for Tayyip Erdoğan” and who says this without shame or embarrassment...
They are silent.
There is no anger at them.
They are not labeled “treason”.
But when people who have given years of their lives to this party come out and say “you are doing wrong”, “purify yourselves”, they suddenly become traitors, enemies, “AKP members”.
Who really benefits from this blindness?
What kind of a mental eclipse is this?
Let's go even further:
“You come from a background that says, ”My life has been spent fighting communism"...
But today you declare people from that tradition as “men of the other side” just because they criticize.
So let's ask:
How did what was wrong yesterday become right today?
Or is it not a matter of principle, but of comfort zone?
Hiding behind names like Ekrem İmamoğlu, creating an emotional shield with the discourse of “father's hearth” and trying to silence the real owners of that hearth...
This is not politics, this is consuming legacy.
Because that place you call “the father's hearth” survived because there was criticism, there was discussion, there were ideas.
Today, a single type of thinking is imposed inside that hearth.
And the saddest part is this:
People who have given their lives to this party are now treated as “foreigners” in that party.
Just because they criticized.
Just because they said “better is possible”.
Then let's ask it bluntly:
Who is really a “collaborator”?
Criticizing?
Or the one who sees the mistake and keeps silent?
In Turkey, it is no longer a question of fighting the opponent; it has turned into a race to liquidate those within Turkey.
It has come to such a point that people who have given years of their lives to this party, who have grown up in this tradition, who have paid the price, are now labeled as “collaborators”, “AKP members” or even “sell-outs” when they make a sentence of criticism.
Question:
Who is this anger against? The opponent or the mirror?
On the one hand, a political language that calls its own chairman “free boy”...
On the other hand, a profile of a politician who can say, “I didn't vote for the CHP's presidential candidate, I went and voted for Tayyip Erdoğan” and who says this without shame or embarrassment...
They are silent.
There is no anger at them.
They are not labeled “treason”.
But when people who have given years of their lives to this party come out and say “you are doing wrong”, “purify yourselves”, they suddenly become traitors, enemies, “AKP members”.
What kind of a mental eclipse is this?
Let's go even further:
“You come from a background that says, ”My life has been spent fighting communism"...
But today you declare people from that tradition as “men of the other side” just because they criticize.
So let's ask:
How did what was wrong yesterday become right today?
Or is it not a matter of principle, but of comfort zone?
Hiding behind names like Ekrem İmamoğlu, creating an emotional shield with the discourse of “father's hearth” and trying to silence the real owners of that hearth...
This is not politics, this is consuming legacy.
Because that place you call “the father's hearth” survived because there was criticism, there was discussion, there were ideas.
Today, a single type of thinking is imposed inside that hearth.
And the saddest part is this:
People who have given their lives to this party are now treated as “foreigners” in that party.
Just because they criticized.
Just because they said “better is possible”.
Then let's ask it bluntly:
Who is really a “collaborator”?
Criticizing?
Or the one who sees the mistake and keeps silent?
There is nowhere to run anymore. It is neither a “miscommunication” nor a “misunderstanding”. It is directly a matter of mentality.
And that mentality says:
“If you object to us, you are not one of us.”
That is precisely why it is being lost.
Because politics is not a race of loyalty, but of reason, courage and confrontation. But if you throw every critic out the door, only those who remain silent will remain inside. And silence does not build order - it produces decay.
Today, the picture is clear:
There is a structure that silences those who speak from within, denies its own past and stigmatizes its own people.
And he still asks the same question: “Why can't we win?”
The answer is bitter but simple:
Because you are fighting with yourself.
On the one hand, the lack of reaction to those who openly say “I voted for Tayyip Erdoğan”...
On the other hand, people who have been in this party for years, who have shouldered this struggle, are labeled as “AKP members”, “collaborators”, “sell-outs”...
Isn't that a double standard?
Isn't this the management of reflex and not of reason?
It goes further than that:
This is an order of fear.
Because the structure that is afraid of criticism is afraid of change.
A structure that fears change is doomed to lose.
No one needs to deceive each other anymore.
As long as this language continues, there will be no connection with the people, no trust will be built and no path to power will be opened.
Because people forgive mistakes, but not arrogance.
People tolerate lack, but they don't forget being underestimated.
And the moment you begin to despise your own people, you begin to write your own doom.
So the last word is clear, unequivocal and firm:
Either you will abandon this pattern of stigmatization,
or you will continue to ask the same question after every election.
But this time no one will take you seriously.
Because people have already figured it out:
Those who cannot tolerate themselves cannot tolerate the country.