When the chairman of the Republican People's Party comes out,
“There is a reserve party, but not for nullity, but in case the party is shut down”
he says;
there is no longer an ordinary political gaffe,
there is a direct collapse of historical consciousness.
Because CHP,
is no ordinary election organization.
CHP is the founding code of this state.
From Lausanne to revolutionary laws,
It is the political backbone of the Republican regime, from secularism to the idea of national sovereignty.
Therefore, talking about the possibility of “shutting down” the CHP,
not the closing of a party sign,
It means discussing the targeting of the historical legitimacy of the Republic.
And the first person who should understand that,
is the chairman of that party.
But today we see,
Özgür Özel does not see the CHP as a historical founding subject,
like an ordinary political corporation with legal risks.
As if it is not the legacy of a hundred years of the Republic,
He's talking about a holding company subsidiary that could face a tax investigation tomorrow.
This is where the real problem starts.
Because they are big political movements,
In moments of crisis, the “backup signboard” does not speak.
Legitimacy speaks.
Resistance speaks.
The historical claim speaks.
The leader of a founding party comes out:
“If we are shut down, we have an alternative ready”
can't say.
There is no struggle in this sentence.
There is no political self-confidence in this sentence.
This sentence lacks the mental capacity to carry historical weight.
On the contrary,
there is an extraordinary psychology of downsizing.
What is more serious is this:
This discourse,
It does not increase the CHP's historical weight;
On the contrary, it trivializes it.
Because he is the leader of a party that founded the Republic,
If he talks about the closure of his party as a technical risk management item,
it's not politics there anymore,
There is institutional panic.
And society starts to question:
Do these people really know what the CHP stands for?
Because it means the closure of the CHP,
It is not just the closure of one party in Turkey.
It means targeting the founding memory of the Republic.
But we see,
Özgür Özel is in a position to grasp this historical depth,
It reduces the issue to the level of daily political agitation.
This is the real tragedy.
“PARTY IS BEING SHUT DOWN” RHETORIC: FEAR PROPAGANDA OF POLITICAL IMPOTENCE
The most remarkable reflex of the CHP leadership today is this:
Whenever there is talk of a congress,
whenever there are allegations of fraud,
Whenever municipality-politics-capital relations are questioned,
whenever the delegation structure is criticized,
Suddenly, the issue is pulled to the emotional brink of “they are going to shut down the CHP”.
This is a conscious political method.
Because fear,
politics is not only an apparatus used by those in power.
The opposition also generates fear to suppress its own internal control.
This is exactly what is being done today.
“Don't criticize us because the party is under attack.”
“Don't question the convention because the Republic is in danger.”
“Don't discuss the administration because the enemy will shut down the CHP.”
This discourse,
is the most comfortable way to avoid democratic accountability.
Because when people are afraid, they stop questioning.
And unfortunately the CHP administration,
instead of growing the party's historical weight,
turning it into a psychological mobilization apparatus.
But there is a very fundamental question:
Is there really a “party closure” process?,
Or is there an atmosphere of victimization that is being cultivated to suppress the political damage that the absolute nullity debate will cause?
Because pay attention:
Political discourse is constantly being deliberately dramatized.
There is an atmosphere in Turkey as if tanks will be parked in front of the CHP headquarters tomorrow.
This one,
not political struggle;
It is an operation to consolidate the base through fear.
And here's the irony:
CHP's historical tradition,
On the contrary, it claimed to produce politics against fear.
Once upon a time CHP,
represented a state-building political mind.
Today, it looks like a cadre that manages the crisis with a social media reflex.
Instead of acting with the reflex of the founding party,
A fragile management psychology is on display, trying to survive through agenda engineering.
Because they are self-confident political movements,
do not constantly define themselves through a “victimization scenario”.
A political mind that sees itself as permanently “shut down”,
in fact, in his own mind, he has already shrunk.
This is the fundamental problem with Özgür Özel's administration:
Not the historical claim that made the CHP grow,
putting emotional mobilization at the center that saves the day.
And as a result, the CHP,
Rather than the founding party of the Republic,
has begun to resemble a media organization engaged in crisis communication.
This is the real danger.
A POLITICAL MIND UNABLE TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF THE FOUNDING AND INEVITABLE COLLAPSE
There are some seats in politics;
you can't sit just by winning elections.
Those seats have a historical weight.
It has a memory.
It has a representative capacity.
The Presidency of the Republican People's Party is exactly such an office.
Because it's the chair,
is not an ordinary party leadership.
That authority;
The founding will of the Republic,
secular legal order,
the idea of modernization,
the concept of national sovereignty,
represents a hundred years of political memory.
Therefore, the person who is the President of the CHP,
not only today's political crises,
It must also carry that historical weight.
But today we see,
Özgür Özel's political reflex,
it's not enough to support this weight.
Because the founding party leadership;
It is not done with panic language.
It is not done with agitation of victimization.
“It is never done with phrases like ”we have formed a reserve party".
On the contrary;
composure,
history consciousness,
corporate dignity,
and political self-confidence.
You think about it:
The chairman of a 103-year-old party,
normalizes the possibility of his party being shut down,
and then presents it as strategic preparation.
This one,
not political leadership;
is a mental retreat.
Because constituent parties do not “back up” themselves.”
The constituent parties defend themselves.
It increases their social legitimacy.
They make their historical weight felt.
What we see today in the CHP leadership is the opposite.
It is not a political mind that magnifies historical weight,
There is a fragile management psychology trying to save the day.
And unfortunately this psychology,
is not growing the party;
shrinking.
Because it is a political movement,
first it shrinks mentally.
Then it shrinks socially.
This is the main reason for the growing unrest in the CHP base today.
People see not only political failure;
but also sees a crisis of representation.
Because CHP voters,
a leadership that recognizes its historical weight.
But what he encountered,
constantly managing the agenda,
Crisis breaker,
engaged in emotional mobilization,
a political language that elevates every discussion to the level of “regime attack”.
And this language,
will not strengthen the CHP in the long run.
On the contrary,
erodes the historical seriousness of the party.
It is necessary to speak frankly:
Republican People's Party,
cannot be governed by the politics of fear.
CHP;
“not with the psychology of ”we are being shut down",
It must be governed with the self-confidence of a political will that founded the Republic.
If a chairman,
cannot grasp the historical meaning of the party he leads;
he can't carry the weight of that seat.
And if a chairman,
A founding party like the CHP,
“backed up” to the level of an ordinary organization;
It is no longer just a political mistake there,
There is a lack of representation.
So it is not just a sentence that needs to be discussed today.
What needs to be discussed,
The question is whether Özgür Özel has truly internalized the historical weight of the CHP.
And the picture is this:
Unable to carry the historical weight of the Republican People's Party,
who cannot grasp the meaning of the founding party,
a president who, in times of crisis, produces a language of fear instead of political self-confidence,
cannot represent that office.
Özgür Özel should resign.