{"id":281151,"date":"2026-01-07T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281151"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:00:03","slug":"with-whom-was-the-reconciliation-and-with-whom-is-the-normalization-and-with-whom-is-the-softening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/with-whom-was-the-reconciliation-and-with-whom-is-the-normalization-and-with-whom-is-the-softening\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018With whom was \u2019Halalization\u2018, with whom was \u2019Normalization\u2018? And then there is \u2019d\u00e9tente'..."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CHP leader \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel said during the inauguration ceremony he attended in his hometown Manisa on the second day of 2026: \u2019This is my call from now on: CHP municipalities should invite ruling party, AK Party and MHP presidents and executives to every opening ceremony they organize. We will go wherever we are invited. From now on, the country must get out of this polarization, this tense climate that demonizes each other,\u201c he said, launching the second period of \u201dnormalization\u2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hoped that 2026 would be the year of a brand new beginning. We will take some steps in our favor. But this is the environment of the world and Turkey in this tense environment.\u2019 Drawing attention to the tension created by the US banditry in Venezuela, \u00d6zel stated that they also ended the boycott list they started after March 19 and said, \u201dAs of now, I am emptying the entire boycott list that we announced during the March 19 process to follow with the most serious sensitivity. New round, new ticket. We are looking ahead. \u201c he said.<\/p>\n

\u00d6zel's first normalization initiative came after the March 31, 2024 local elections. Following \u00d6zel's call for normalization after the elections in which the CHP emerged as the first party, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan visited the CHP headquarters, while the CHP leader attended both the Palace and some invitations of the AK Party.<\/p>\n

\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel responded to criticism during this period by saying \u201cI am the name father of normalization\u201d and said that the process will continue.<\/p>\n

Even the raid on Be\u015fikta\u015f Municipality in the first days of 2025 and the arrest of its mayor R\u0131za Akpolat did not end \u00d6zel's normalization step. Until March 19, 2025, with the operation against IBB and the arrest of Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, \u00d6zel's normalization policy came to an end and he started to target Erdo\u011fan and his government with very harsh words.<\/p>\n

The public reaction to \u00d6zel, who started 2026 with a second call for normalization, especially by the names close to \u0130mamo\u011flu, led to the comments that \u2019\u0130mamo\u011flu is against normalization\u2018.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, it was occasionally expressed by names close to Sara\u00e7hane that Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu was not very warm to the first normalization step.<\/p>\n

Following \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel's first step towards normalization, CHP's 7th President Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's statement that \u2018the Palace cannot be negotiated with, it must be fought\u2019 was much talked about in those days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talk to everyone, I negotiate with everyone, but I will never give up the struggle. Because the nation does not want a fight.\u201d.<\/p>\n

In fact, \u00d6zel's first step towards normalization did not find much favor with the CHP base.<\/p>\n

\u2018The question \u2019Are we the abnormal ones or Erdo\u011fan and AK Party cadres who insult our party and our chairman at every opportunity, even to the point of insulting our founding leader' summarized the reaction of the CHP base.<\/p>\n

For this reason, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's call for \u2018struggle\u2019 instead of \u2018negotiation\u2019 also found a wide response among the opposition segments of society.<\/p>\n

\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, on the other hand, made a statement after the trial of Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet \u00d6zer in May 2025, saying, \u2019They are not to be negotiated with, they are to be fought against.\u201c He came to the same point as his former leader.<\/p>\n

The CHP leadership also reminded critics of \u00d6zel's \u2018normalization\u2019 policy of K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's \u2018halalization\u2019 policy and responded by saying \u2018this policy did not start with \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, there was a fundamental difference between \u2018halalization\u2019 and \u2018normalization\u2019 policies.
\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu said, \u201cTo make amends means to face each other, to make peace and to move on.<\/p>\n

We will do this to the communities that are wounded. The law is the law for whoever has committed what crime. We should not confuse the law with making amends.\u201d.
\nIn response to some criticism that this step would mean giving up on holding the government to account, he listed with whom the halalization would take place as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will make peace with the wounds inflicted by February 28th. We will make peace with our veiled girls who were put in persuasion rooms\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with Roboski. Law is one thing, but making peace is another. The state will pay compensation to the people, but we will also make peace.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with the victims of Sivas and Kahramanmaras.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with the prisoners of Diyarbak\u0131r prison.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with the Roma whose neighborhoods were seized and driven out.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with the minorities who suffered under the wealth tax and the victims of the September 6-7 events.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with our soldiers and their families who have been dragged through the courts.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cToday we will say goodbye to our brightest minds who have emigrated to London.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with Ali \u0130smail Korkmaz's family and Soma.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cOur young children were hanged from left and right by the coup plotters in this country and we will make peace with those people.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with M\u0131sra \u00d6z, who lost 9-year-old O\u011fuz Arda Sel and was dragged through the courts\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe will make peace with Ahmet Kaya. We will do goodbye, my friends. One day in the near future our children will look back and say, \u2018What happened, but we knew how to move forward, good for them\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's step of \u2018making amends\u2019 was not aimed at the government, but directly at the society and the victimized segments of society. In other words, those who have been victimized and vindicated by the system from past to present.<\/p>\n

Moreover, those who needed to be reconciled were those victimized not directly by the CHP, but by the \u2018system\u2019, including the period when the AK Party was in power.<\/p>\n

So why was the CHP taking a \u2018halalization\u2019 step for those victimized by the system?<\/p>\n

Because Erdo\u011fan and the AK Party's propaganda machine has succeeded in planting the perception of \u2018System=CHP\u2019 in the minds of large segments of society.<\/p>\n

Instead of acting as if the opposition was responsible for the tense atmosphere in the country and taking normalization steps towards the government, the CHP signed an invisible contract with the society by promising to fight against the government instead of negotiating with it by taking a \u2018halalization\u2019 step that would mean a surrender of rights for the victims of the society.<\/p>\n

It was precisely for this reason that many names from Emine \u015eenya\u015far to Ay\u015fe Ate\u015f, from M\u0131sra \u00d6z to Fatih Furkan Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu handed over their struggle for \u2018justice\u2018 to K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. This commitment was reciprocated by the society and many different segments of society began to see the CHP as the address that would provide justice.<\/p>\n

However, there are widespread suspicions that the investigations against CHP municipalities and the case against the 38th Congress are behind today's step towards normalization.
\nSince the admission of \u2018backdoor diplomacy\u2019 between the CHP and the government for the cases pending before the courts was understood as \u2018negotiating for themselves\u2019 instead of \u2018fighting on behalf of society\u2019, \u00d6zel has so far been unable to get the broad segments of society, especially the CHP base, to embrace these steps.<\/p>\n

That is why the steps taken have been called \u2018d\u00e9tente\u2019 rather than normalization.
\nHowever, what the CHP needs to do is not to practice \u2018softening-hardening\u2019 by switching every 6 months, but to stop giving its message to the Palace and strengthen its ties directly with the segments of society and build a strong belief that it will end the Palace regime and establish the people's power.<\/p>\n

The latest polls show that even during the period of Mehmet \u015eim\u015fek's heavy economic program, which was implemented by cutting the bread of almost all segments of society, the votes were neck and neck.<\/p>\n

Almost all independent observers of politics say that Erdo\u011fan, who will be handed a full treasury in an election year, will turn this picture in his favor with an \u2018electoral economy\u2019 that he will implement just as he did in the 2023 general elections, taking into account the result of the 2024 local elections, when he had to scold pensioners asking for a raise in the squares.<\/p>\n

\u00d6zel's \u2018normalization\/softening\u2019 steps, on the other hand, are not beneficial for the march to power, but rather steps to secure internal party power.<\/p>\n

The power-weary masses are already muttering \u2018we lost again\u2019 even before the elections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00d6zel’in ‘normalle\u015fme\/yumu\u015fama’ ad\u0131mlar\u0131 iktidar y\u00fcr\u00fcy\u00fc\u015f\u00fcne bir fayda sa\u011flamaktan \u00e7ok, parti i\u00e7i iktidar\u0131 sa\u011flama almaya y\u00f6nelik ad\u0131mlar olarak kal\u0131yor.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":281152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281154,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281151\/revisions\/281154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}