{"id":281598,"date":"2026-01-17T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281598"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:33:26","slug":"until-the-armchair-and-the-marriage-of-olum-and-olum-separate-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/until-the-armchair-and-the-marriage-of-olum-and-olum-separate-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage with a Chair \u201cTill Death Do Us Part\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics has ceased to be a duty in this country.<br \/>\nIt has ceased to be a test.<br \/>\nIt has ceased to be a trust.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is now<strong> \u201cbooty\u201d<\/strong> as it seems to be.<\/p>\n<p>The seat has become a livelihood, not a place of service.<br \/>\nThe office became a shield, not a responsibility.<br \/>\nAuthority became someone's share, not the nation's right.<\/p>\n<p>And then we watch the same scenery every day:<br \/>\nA scandal erupts...<br \/>\nA claim comes out...<br \/>\nThere is talk of a document...<\/p>\n<p>But no one is moving.<\/p>\n<p>Because shame does not come before resignation.<br \/>\nWe have no shame.<\/p>\n<p>There is corruption.<br \/>\nThere is bribery.<br \/>\nThere is a bidding scheme.<br \/>\nThere is favoritism.<br \/>\nThere is interest generation through office.<\/p>\n<p>But it's not just about money.<\/p>\n<p>There are some relationships...<br \/>\nCrippling the human will.<br \/>\nOverturning the verdict.<br \/>\nContaminating the mind.<br \/>\nThat casts a shadow over what you call willpower.<\/p>\n<p>When a politician blacks out his private life, it's a matter of <strong>\u201cprivate life\u201d<\/strong> not anymore.<br \/>\nThe issue is the security of the state.<br \/>\nThis is about the future of the nation.<br \/>\nBecause the weak are ruled.<br \/>\nThe weak can be manipulated.<br \/>\nThe weak will one day become a toy in someone's hands.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the inside of the parties.<\/p>\n<p>They don't just rig the ballot box.<br \/>\nThey are also mixing it inside the party.<\/p>\n<p>There is talk of buying delegates.<br \/>\nThere's talk of paying for the lists.<br \/>\nThere is talk of putting the will on the market.<\/p>\n<p>This issue <strong>\u201cintra-party bickering\u201d<\/strong> but a system of interests that cripples the will.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what the saddest part is?<\/p>\n<p>Party members don't come for ideology anymore.<br \/>\nHe's not coming for the case.<br \/>\nHe's not coming for the principle.<\/p>\n<p>He comes for profit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis party is my worldview\u201d<\/em> he does not say.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWhat's in it for me?\u201d<\/em> He says.<\/p>\n<p>If politics in a country becomes like this;<br \/>\nThe party organization does not produce litigators, it produces job followers.<br \/>\ndoes not produce programs, it produces lists.<br \/>\nIt does not produce morality, it produces a system of interests.<\/p>\n<p>In that system, merit dies.<br \/>\nJustice dies.<br \/>\nHonor dies.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries in the world are not clean, but they are smart.<br \/>\nWhat are they doing?<br \/>\nWhen a load grows, they don't carry it.<\/p>\n<p>He resigns.<br \/>\nHe walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Because they know: A state is bigger than one person.<\/p>\n<p>What happens with us?<\/p>\n<p>The scandal is growing<br \/>\nBut the seat is not left.<\/p>\n<p>If this country is to recover, one day;<br \/>\nnot in big words, but in a small sentence:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPublic conscience has been damaged. This mission has been overshadowed.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I don't have the face to carry people's rights any longer.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I resign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On that day, not only a seat becomes vacant.<br \/>\nThat day was the first time in this country,<br \/>\nMillet <strong>\u201cprice\u201d<\/strong> he hears the word again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a politician blackens his private life, it is no longer a matter of \u201cprivate life\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281598","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281599,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281598\/revisions\/281599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}