The first was Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's ability to bring together different segments of society on the same ground with the table of 6.
The second was Erdoğan's fatigue over the years, the economic crisis and the social reaction to his policies. In other words, the areas lost by the government gave the opposition a natural advantage.
However, the new administration failed to read this correctly. They mistook the psychological advantage of being the first party for permanent political success. However, politics, especially in a country like Turkey that stands in the middle of the Middle East reality, is not based on day-to-day reflexes, but on wisdom, strategy and patience.
One day they said “normalization”, the next day the “red card” discourse emerged. Expectations of “very important announcements” were constantly created and the public was excited, but the unfulfilled exits led to a loss of seriousness. A government that has state experience and has been working in a planned manner for years was confronted with disconnected discourses that gave the impression of a neighborhood team.
This is the main reason for today's jam. Because in politics, shouting is one thing, but reassuring is another. An antique dealer shouts; an antique dealer quietly appreciates. Instead of preserving its political memory and accumulation, the CHP has ruthlessly consumed its own past.
Moreover, the fact that Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who served as the chairman for many years, was called a “traitor” in the squares is a separate fracture. This is a society that remembers a cup of coffee for forty years. There is criticism and reckoning in politics, but there is a limit to disloyalty in the public conscience. If even the people who criticized Kılıçdaroğlu the most harshly for years are surprised by what is happening today, then there is a serious problem here that needs to be thought about.
What needed to be done today was not to make society more tense or to act on the applause of three or five “goyboys”, but to produce a realistic political mind on how to defeat Erdoğan. Because the opposition in Turkey wins not only with slogans, but also with organization, staff, economy and the ability to read the psychology of society.
But it seems that lessons have still not been learned.