Starting again with numbers. Because in politics, the truth is often hidden not in ideologies but in statistics. Numbers remove the make-up of the discourse, leaving the truth naked. And today, the CHP's least favorite thing is the mirror.
\nIn the last six months:
\nAKP made 664,568 new members.
\nFelicity Party 67.244,
\nThe Key Party gained 62,491 new members.
\nThe CHP's tally is only one:
\n19.325.
\nThis difference is not a propaganda difference.
\nThis difference is not a budget difference at all.
\nThis difference cannot be explained by the charisma of the leader, media power or even the pressure of power.
\nThis is the difference in political credibility.
\nThis difference is the loss of moral superiority.
\nThis difference, in Gramsci's words, is the result of the failure to establish social hegemony.
\nCHP no longer offers people a vision of the future.
\nIt does not produce a promise of social transformation.
\nHe is merely repeating past victimizations over and over again to cover today's political impotence.
\nThe CHP is turning into a party that commemorates the past, not one that builds the future.
\nHe is playing politics over Silivri.
\nIt shows injustice, right.
\nBut at the same time, it operates a silent, systematic and cold-blooded regime of political execution.
\nOutside is \u201claw\u201d,
\n\u201cobedience\u201d inside.
\n\u201cFreedom\u201d outside,
\n\u201callegiance\u201d inside.
\nThis is not just a contradiction. This is politics losing its moral ground. Because democracy is not only a value to be defended against the government, it is a regime that must first be kept alive within its own organization.
\nThe price for this hypocrisy is not only paid at the ballot box.
\nThis price is paid in the organization, in the members, on the street, in the youth, in the sense of hope.
\nThat's why people are moving away.
\nThat's why he doesn't sign up.
\nThis is why the CHP is transforming from a mass political movement into a shrinking bureaucratic structure.
\nAnd one of the areas where this decay is most clearly visible is the systematic lynching of Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.<\/p>\n
You either like K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu or you don't.
\nYou may or may not find it successful.
\nBut you can't deny a fact:
\nFor the first time in the history of the CHP, after leaving office, a chairman has been subjected to such an open, dirty and sustained attack by organized troll networks feeding from within his own party.
\nHe was not criticized politically.
\nMorally targeted.
\nCartoonized.
\nHumiliated.
\nSlander.
\nAnd it went as far as insulting language directed at his family and his wife.
\nThis is not politics.
\nThis is not a principled showdown at all.
\nThis is the suspension of morality in the struggle for power.
\nSo what did the CHP administration do?
\nNothing.
\nThere is no explanation.
\nThere is no demarcation.
\nThey don't have the courage to say \u201cthat's it\u201d.
\nBecause those trolls did not come from outside.
\nBecause those attacks were the digital apparatus of the internal party power struggle.
\nSilence was not a shortcoming here, but a conscious choice.
\nAnd in political science this has a clear name: implicit consent.
\nEven more serious is this:
\nThose who supported K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu were purged not because they expressed their opinions but because they stood in the wrong alignment.
\nParty member expelled.
\nThe provincial administrator was dismissed.
\nThe city councilor was excluded.
\nMPs were kept in line with a disciplinary stick.
\nWhat was the crime?
\nTweeting.
\nMaking a statement of support.
\nVoting at the congress.
\nThe limit of freedom of opinion in the CHP today is this:
\nAs much as the center likes it.
\nLooking at this picture, who would become a member?
\nWho says \u201cthis party is mine\u201d?
\nWho dares to tell their child to \u201cgo and do politics in CHP\u201d?
\nBut there is another, more critical side.
\nThis order is sustained not only by active force but also by silent partnerships.
\nAnd yes, it would be willful blindness not to mention Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu here.
\nImamo\u011flu was silent in the face of the lynching against K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.
\nHe was silent in the face of the expulsion of those who defended him.
\nHe was silent in the face of the strangulation of internal party democracy.
\nThis silence was not a courtesy; it was a strategy.
\nBecause with every voice that was purged, the space was expanding.
\nBecause when the objectors left, the story became monophonic.
\nBecause silence was the least risky way to build power.
\nImamoglu loves the politics of victimization;
\nbut is distant from the victimization of others.
\nHe takes photos in Silivri,
\nbut not a word about intra-party executions.
\nThis attitude does not make the CHP grow.
\nThis attitude is de-ideologizing, decentralizing and rotting the CHP from within.
\nMoreover, the practice of IBB is the managerial projection of this political mentality.
\nCorruption allegations are not to be discussed.
\nTender questions are dismissed as \u201cperception operations\u201d.
\nStructural problems in municipalism are covered up with the rhetoric of the \u201cpower block\u201d.
\nBut the opposition has no luxury.
\nThe opposition cannot make excuses.
\nThe opposition has to be more transparent than the government.
\nCHP will hold a meeting today both at the headquarters
\nboth in local governments
\nrisks turning into an unaccountable political organism.
\nAdded to this is the ideological drift.
\nRight-wing recruitment MPs,
\ncenter-right figures,
\nmarket-friendly neoliberal municipalism...
\n\u201cPatience\u201d to the left voters,
\nthe right is being told to \u201ccome\u201d.
\nBut politics is not math.
\nYou don't grow as you move to the right;
\nthe more you lose your identity, the smaller you get.
\nAnd right here we come across another historical fact that has been deliberately ignored.<\/p>\n
The success achieved in the elections held just two months after Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu stepped down as chairman is the direct result of an inclusive political approach that is today underestimated and even forgotten. That result is the belated fruit not of a new strategy, but of a political line that has been woven over the years, that has succeeded in keeping different social segments together, that has established contact instead of polarization.
\nIn other words, that success is not the product of those who have been marketing themselves for the last two years as \u201cwe came and became the first party of Turkey\u201d, but of the political mind that was liquidated today.
\nThis is why the \u201cwe came\u201d narrative is historically false.
\nThat success was not created from scratch.
\nThat success was inherited.
\nAnd then that legacy was consumed ruthlessly.
\nThis is the most tangible indicator of the fact that the \u201cfirst party\u201d perception, which has been polished for two years, is rapidly losing its gilding today. If a new political line had really been established, the CHP would not be 30 times behind the AKP in terms of membership and 3.5 times behind the smaller parties.
\nReal success is not instantaneous.
\nTrue success is continuity.
\nReal success is growing in the organization.
\nReal success is being able to convince, retain and multiply people.
\nToday we see that perception management falls apart when it comes into contact with numbers. Because politics eventually confronts reality.
\nThose who dismantled inclusiveness are today asking the reason for isolation.
\nThose who silenced criticism are today trying to understand why no one came.
\nThe answer is clear.<\/p>\n
The romance of \u201clet's unite\u201d is no longer the solution.
\nIt is a question of a political manifesto.
\nTroll politics against K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu must be openly confronted.
\nThe perpetrators of this lynching should not be protected, they should be exposed.
\nDismissals based on political opinion must be stopped and reversed.
\nCHP is not a bureaucratic structure with a single voice.
\nEveryone, including Imamo\u011flu, should be open to criticism.
\nPolitics is about control, not showcasing.
\nAbsolute transparency in municipalities must be made mandatory.
\nA CHP municipality is no less auditable than an AKP municipality.
\nThe neoliberal line must be abandoned.
\nCHP is either in favor of labor, the public sector and the welfare state or it is not.
\nAnd most importantly:
\nIntra-party democracy must become an institutional obligation, not a wish.
\nThe final word is clear, harsh and inevitable:
\nCrying to Silivri
\nthat executes within itself,
\nand he can't stand up for his leader.
\ntroll politics,
\nand not being held accountable at the municipality
\npurging the organization
\na party cannot be in power.
\nThe CHP's problem is not the person;
\nIt is a question of morality, politics and courage.
\nUntil this problem is solved
\nwhat closes 30 times,
\nwhat is exceeded 3.5 times,
\nnor is real change possible in this country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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