{"id":281574,"date":"2026-01-16T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281574"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:47:11","slug":"what-difference-does-a-conversation-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/what-difference-does-a-conversation-make\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Conversation Changes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There are some speeches that cannot be forgotten even after thousands of years. Because they are not just said, they describe a breaking moment.
\nOne of them is the tirade of Marcus Antony, which Shakespeare brought to the stage.
\nAntony addresses the crowd:
\n\u201cFriends, Romans, citizens, listen to me.<\/em>
\nI came not to praise Caesar, but to bury him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When this sentence was uttered, no one knew that Caesar's right would actually be rendered to Caesar, so to speak, and that this would turn into a rebellion.
\nBecause Antony was not holding a rally.
\nHe wasn't setting up a call.
\nHe was not giving a direction.
\nWhat he presented was not a program, but a landscape: The body of the dead.
\nAn injustice.
\nA truth that has been silenced, orphaned.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Today, rallies have been taking place in Turkey for almost a year. The squares are full, the stands are set up, slogans are chanted, songs are sung. But there is neither an awakening nor a people who really feel that what is happening is an injustice.
\nAnd that is precisely why the question remains:
\nWhy do all these voices, all these words, all these calls go unanswered?
\nBecause Marcus Antony did not look down on the people.
\nFirst he established equality:
\n\u201cFriends.\u201d<\/em>
\nThen I was reminded of common identity:
\n\u201cRomans.\u201d<\/em>
\nFinally, he pointed to fate and political belonging:
\n\u201cCitizens.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI speak for you\u201d<\/em> he didn't say.
\n\u201cI am with you\u201d<\/em> He said.
\nAnd this is perhaps the most decisive difference:
\nAntony demanded nothing.
\nNeither did he ask for votes,
\nwhat a slogan,
\nwhat applause,
\nnor rebellion.
\nIt just made an injustice visible.
\nIt did not organize anger.
\nHe did not try to manage the anger.
\nHe revealed the truth and left the rest to the conscience of the people.
\nHe neither defended nor attacked. He just painted a picture and let the people see the truth with their own eyes.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

This is where the break occurred.
\nBecause the slogan was not written in advance.
\nInjustice was not memorized.
\nThe injustice was the people's own discovery, their own experience, their own intuition. That's why the masses felt awakened, not deceived.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

The CHP has been holding rallies for about a year.
\nTalking, calling, demanding.
\nBut the people won't move.
\nHe doesn't even come to the rally in his pajamas.
\nBecause it's not about gathering a crowd; it's about releasing an emotion...
\nMoreover, this language also harbors a deep problem in the CHP's relationship with its own past.
\nThe entire burden of the electoral defeat is being placed on the shoulders of a single figure, the former chairman.
\nAs if he was the cause of everything that happened.
\nIt was as if the whole story ended or began there.
\nWhat happened in the CHP was not a political debate, but the blaming of a collective defeat on a single individual.
\nA silent, cold and hurtful form of exclusion.
\nMarcus Antony, on the other hand, does not use hurtful language even when talking about those who killed his friend.
\nIt does not humiliate anyone or target anyone. It does not try to build a sense of justice by producing a new injustice.
\nIn the CHP, the sense of injustice is, for this very reason, reproduced and reproduced within itself.
\nBecause what is being done is not to try to understand a defeat or an injustice, but to turn a collective crime and responsibility into a personal sin.
\nOf course, a politics that has a disproportionate fight inside, that abandons its comrade and puts all the blame on him cannot be expected to give hope to the people.
\nBut Antony did not.
\nHe neither openly accused his opponents nor turned his friend into a defensive shield.
\nWith just examples, he made visible what happened and what was done, that is, the injustice itself.
\nThe CHP, on the other hand, instead of making peace with the work of its previous president, constantly blames him,
\nIt constructs a language that discredit, that puts the blame on the past.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

This language does not reassure the public.
\nBecause the public does not believe that a politics that even settles its own internal scores through lynching can dispense justice.
\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has been turned into an implicit subject of sin rather than a political figure.
\nThis neither convinces the fans nor comforts the critics.
\nBecause people see this clearly:
\nHow will a politics that cannot mend its own internal fractures mend the country's grave injustices?
\nAntony was in mourning.
\nHe was not blaming anyone.
\nHe was storming inside, but in front of the public he was like a calm, deep sea.
\nThe CHP, on the other hand, is quickly moving past mourning and waiting for rational decisions.
\nHe blames everyone except himself.
\nHe is becoming irritable.
\nInstead of addressing the people's concerns, he is busy defending himself.
\nIn this country, people cannot even mourn poverty.
\nThey cannot name the lives they have lost.
\nEven their anger is not their own.
\nThey don't even know what they feel.
\nAntony did not blame the people.
\nHe was not angry with the public.
\nHe did not shout.
\nIt innocitized the people.
\nHe put the blame upstairs.
\nCHP, on the other hand, is still
\n\u201cYou did wrong\u201d,<\/em>
\n\u201cYou didn't vote for us\u201d,<\/em>
\n\u201cYou have been deceived\u201d<\/em> and he keeps saying.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

And it is precisely here that politics, instead of standing side by side with the people, turns against them.<\/p>\n

But how much louder can a politics that doesn't realize that it is distancing itself from the people really be heard?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has been turned into a subject of sin rather than a political figure. This neither convinces his supporters nor comforts his critics.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":281575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[15,78,289],"class_list":["post-281574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-yazarlar","tag-chp","tag-kemal-kilicdaroglu","tag-manset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281574","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281577,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281574\/revisions\/281577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}