“They want to bury me in concrete...”
This sentence in the article written by Ekrem İmamoğlu after his critical meeting with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu summarized in one sentence the tension that had been talked about in the CHP lobbies for a long time. Then today Özgür Özel came out and made the following statement:
“CHP will not pour concrete on Imamoğlu!”
And is it really?
The real question is this:
Who really poured the concrete and on whom?
Will the CHP work with the contractor Ekrem İmamoğlu?
Is the CHP really not pouring concrete over anyone, or is it quietly burying someone?
For months they said, “We are first in the polls.”.
“They took our presidential candidate, who received 15.5 million votes, into prison,” they said in a defensive, hollow opposition.
And then what happened?
Those who ignored the table of six became the architects of an isolated opposition.
And finally, with a 3900-page indictment, they became defendants.
Those who once said “we don't brew with DEM” sat at the same table with HÜDA-PAR, like a smuggled tea.
They brought together four dissimilar people and created a “commission” fairy tale.
Even the rematch of not going to İmralı could not save this political drift.
Those who have no experience to determine the fate of the country are pontificating today.
The truth is:
The CHP's congress process under the name of “change” is an intervention operation unprecedented in Turkish political history.
That hall was not the stage of a political party, but of an outright political operation.
This process, which started months in advance with Zoom meetings, was a planned purge carried out with mayors, a media-backed PR machine and money traffic.
This purge was not done democratically; it was done with money.
The will of the delegates was ignored.
Referred, bought.
The allegations are clear: Millions of liras were distributed to delegates as “persuasion bonuses”.
So the seat was exchanged for money, not ideas.
Those who managed this process intervened not from outside but from within:
With office, with power, with the media...
“They want to bury me in concrete,” Imamoğlu said, and his words were a cry.
Özgür Özel's sentence “CHP would not pour concrete on İmamoğlu”, which was served in response to this, is unethical.
This is not a political promise; it is a pledge of an indemnity bond.
Because it was actually others who were buried in concrete.
What was buried was this:
CHP's reputation,
moral compass,
institutional memory
Those who led the operation only changed the seat under the mask of change.
But the method has always remained the same:
Cheating, money, power and media manipulation.
We have to ask:
Where in Turkey is this considered ethical?
If politics is so polluted, who are the actors of this pollution?
The answer is clear:
Ekrem İmamoğlu and the power bloc around him.
This bloc carried out an organized purge under the name of change.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was not just a name; he was the last obstacle in front of this operation.
That barrier has been removed.
And for months, a new CHP mayor has been detained almost every day.
News of corruption is spreading in waves.
CHP is moving away from the people and the people are moving away from CHP.
Because it is not just a leader who is lost;
is the moral ground of the party, the conscience of politics.
That is why I am asking once again, louder:
Who poured the concrete and for whom?
Those who mobilize millions to overthrow their own leader?
Those who design the will of the delegates with money?
Those who rely on PR agencies rather than the people?
Today it is not only Kılıçdaroğlu who is buried in concrete.
The hope of the people, the conscience of the party and the honor of politics have also been buried.
But remember:
Concrete covers the top
It can never refute the underlying truth.
One day that concrete will crack.
And the truth sprouts again with all its weight.