M\u0130T Undersecretary \u0130brahim Kal\u0131n visited the CHP Headquarters last week.<\/p>\n
The content of the 3-hour visit was kept secret. Not only the content but also the other names that Kal\u0131n met with besides \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel were kept secret.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, who said \u201dI am in favor of transparency\", shared the following information about the content of the meeting with K\u00fcbra Par a day after the meeting:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked for intelligence support from M\u0130T to prevent FET\u00d6 or other terrorist organizations from infiltrating CHP during overseas recruitment\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n We know how much \u00d6zel favors transparency from the X-ray he released when he broke his leg.<\/p>\n However, for the congress for which he was elected \u201cShady\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u2018There must be a reason\u2019 for President Erdo\u011fan to reveal the content of the \u2018secret\u2019 meeting with the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) a day after he had not given a single word of answer for a month.<\/p>\n Just as he expected from the \u2018normalization\u2019 policies that he could not explain to the public and the party base, he surely has an expectation from this revelation!<\/p>\n But is this a simple and innocent demand as \u00d6zel says?<\/p>\n This actually depends on how you look at the institution and phenomenon of \u2018politics\u2019.<\/p>\n If you see politics as an official\/semi-official activity carried out with \u2018state authorization\u2019 and the field of politics as such, you can call this demand \u2018normal\u2019.<\/p>\n If you see politics as a civil activity carried out by the \u2018will of the people\u2019 and the political arena as such, there is no other option but to call this demand \u2018scandalous\u2019.<\/p>\n If a party like the Republican People's Party, which is one of the few 3-5 parties in the world with a lifespan of more than a century, does not consider any other option than requesting a report from M\u0130T to accept members, it means that it has given up on civilian politics.<\/p>\n And let's look at the context in which he did it;<\/p>\n This request is being made in an environment where just 3 weeks ago the CHP mayor of Esenyurt, Ahmet \u00d6zer, was arrested on charges of \u2018membership in a terrorist organization\u2019!<\/p>\n The reason for \u00d6zer's arrest was leaked to the pro-government media as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cHe was arrested on the basis of evidence obtained after 10 years of surveillance.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n And who did this surveillance?<\/p>\n Does M\u0130T, which \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel asked for help in recruiting members, play a role in this surveillance?<\/p>\n Two days after \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel asked for M\u0130T's help, a trustee was appointed to CHP's Ovac\u0131k Municipality.<\/p>\n Ovacik Mayor Mustafa Saricgul \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d<\/em><\/strong> was sentenced to imprisonment and this trustee decision followed.<\/p>\n Following this decision, the CHP formed a delegation and sent it to Ovacik.<\/p>\n CHP Chairman \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel responds to trustee decisions \u201cThe main issue with the trustees appointed to CHP and DEM municipalities is to punish the people. It is to defy the will of the people\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \"I'm not going to be able to do it.<\/p>\n And what will \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel say if tomorrow an MIT report is placed in front of him stating that Mustafa Sar\u0131g\u00fcl, the elected mayor of Ovac\u0131k, is a member of a terrorist organization?<\/p>\n If it goes even further, if all 414 mayors summoned by the CHP to an extraordinary meeting in Ankara are reported to have ties with different terrorist organizations, what will \u00d6zel's reaction be?<\/p>\n \u201cI don't trust MIT's reports\u201d<\/em><\/strong> can he say?<\/p>\n In this case, \u0130brahim Kal\u0131m is the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (M\u0130T) and Erdo\u011fan appointed him Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (M\u0130T), \u201cIf you don't trust them, why did you ask MIT to help you recruit members for your party?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \"What's wrong with you?<\/p>\n Remember Suleyman Soylu, who in the past boasted of being the country's longest serving Interior Minister \u201c505 terrorism-linked employees were recruited to IBB during Imamo\u011flu's term\u201d<\/em><\/strong> that he's the one who's been killed?<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, when he was later invited to prove this claim, he said that he was exercising his right to \u2018political criticism\u2019!<\/p>\n I wonder how the CHP leadership will explain the fact that the state has turned into a party state, that all institutions from T\u00dc\u0130K to the judiciary take orders from the Palace, while asking for M\u0130T's help for membership applications to the party.<\/p>\n \u2018Does \u00d6zel think that \u2019all institutions work like a party state, except MIT'?<\/p>\n **<\/p>\n Moreover, even if all institutions function as institutions of the rule of law and not as institutions of the party state, it is a major scandal in all democratic countries of the world for a political party to ask for \u2018help\u2019 from intelligence for recruitment of members.<\/p>\n The primary task of political parties is known as \u2018coming to power\u2019, but it is not. The primary duty of parties is to expand the space and ground for politics. Especially in a country like Turkey, where the space for politics has been constantly narrowed by coups, handing over the space for politics to the \u2018state\u2019 is a betrayal of the political institution itself.<\/p>\n When I learned about \u00d6zel's statement during a live broadcast I attended, my first reaction was \u201cA trustee has been appointed in charge of your party\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>It happened.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI am aware of what I am saying. I am addressing the CHP members who blocked the path of the Interior Minister for the trustee appointed to Esenyurt today. A trustee has been appointed to your party. You know what you have to do.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/9bjiKfmfXO<\/a><\/p>\n - Atakan Sonmez (@atakansmz) November 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n