{"id":282073,"date":"2026-01-28T04:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=282073"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:19:07","slug":"what-that-map-actually-tells-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/what-that-map-actually-tells-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What does that map actually tell us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282076\" src=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/harita-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>I have many friends from Trabzon; among them are the best industrialists and the most hardworking people of the country. I am not talking about the people of Trabzon.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to politics, the picture changes.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a map: Trabzon is the province that has produced the most ministers in Turkey. This is not today, it has been like this for years. It is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that politics has ceased to be a field of merit for us and has become a family affair.<strong> \u201cthose who have nothing else to cling to\u201d<\/strong> has turned into a profession. You know the story of the \u2018boy who studied\u2019 in Kayseri, that's exactly what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Turkish politics today: from the government to the opposition, there is a Black Sea activity centered on Trabzon. I always say this:<\/p>\n<p>On election night in the Black Sea region, every house lights up because there is someone from every party in the house - member, candidate or candidate candidate.<\/p>\n<p>This table produces a politics based on interests, not ideology.<br \/>\nIt does not create space, it suffocates the new.<\/p>\n<p>And it is not only about power. This is the crisis the Republican People's Party is going through today. This understanding of Black Sea-Trabzon politics that has settled inside the CHP has locked the party.<br \/>\nIf the CHP does not carry out a serious bowel cleansing, in other words, a real internal accounting, it will not be able to get rid of this structure and will not be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>This is not racism.<br \/>\nThis is an objection to the parceling out of politics by a narrow geographical clique for years.<\/p>\n<p>When politics ceases to be a national issue and turns into a narrow geography's cadre sharing, cliques win and the people lose, not the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When politics ceases to be a national issue and turns into a narrow geography's cadre sharing, cliques win and the people lose, not the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":282076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-282073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282073","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282077,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282073\/revisions\/282077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}