{"id":282453,"date":"2026-02-07T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=282453"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:58:51","slug":"they-shut-up-they-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/they-shut-up-they-shut-up\/","title":{"rendered":"They are silent... Let them be silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who and why does one fear and choose to remain silent?<br \/>\nOr why does it swallow and fall silent?<br \/>\nBecause either he has a shame to cover up,<br \/>\nis either an accomplice to a crime,<br \/>\nor committed the crime himself.<\/p>\n<p>They are silent...<\/p>\n<p>Those who set out for \u201cchange\u201d after the shady congress on November 4-5, have now imitated all the habits of the government they criticized yesterday.<br \/>\nAs a result of the perception operations conducted by their armies of trolls and their pencil pushers in the visual and print media, a single name has been targeted:<br \/>\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.<\/p>\n<p>For 13 years, he was the chairman of the CHP and fought to right every wrong he saw.<br \/>\nNot the elites; not the elitists who revolutionize at raki tables,<br \/>\nhe wanted men of the cause.<br \/>\nFor the people,<br \/>\nHe tried to dock this ship in safe harbors with those who fought for right-law-justice.<br \/>\nIs it criticized?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\nBut insults and swearing are never acceptable.<br \/>\nAnd it will not be.<\/p>\n<p>In this process, there was also a chorus of additions:<br \/>\nMPs, group deputy chairpersons, PM members, mayors, provincial and district heads...<br \/>\nFor the sake of finding a place on the lists rumored to be prepared in Silivri,<br \/>\nwho disregard all boundaries of respect...<br \/>\nThose who are part of this operation,<br \/>\nthose who are directly involved in this game like an apparatus;<br \/>\nwith their tally sheets at the end of the day,<br \/>\nor they thought they had secured their future.<br \/>\nThe offensive was multifaceted.<br \/>\nThose who should not be silent objected, raised their voices.<\/p>\n<p>What about those who are silent?<\/p>\n<p>SHUT UP.<br \/>\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu remained patiently silent.<br \/>\nHe swallowed.<br \/>\nHe buried his experiences inside.<br \/>\nIn his world;<br \/>\nThere was no rancor,<br \/>\nthere was no hatred,<br \/>\nThere was no anger,<br \/>\nthere was no revenge.<br \/>\nIn his world<br \/>\nlove, respect, tolerance and morality.<br \/>\nHonor and honor were the most sacred values in life for him.<br \/>\nThey were not hollow concepts.<br \/>\nFamily was everything.<br \/>\nCHP was his family.<br \/>\nHis view of the fight was \u201cthe arm is broken and the bone remains in its place\u201d.<br \/>\nWith his great tolerance, he listens carefully to those who criticize him,<br \/>\nHe would try to correct any mistakes, any shortcomings he could not see.<\/p>\n<p>Which General President wants it?;<br \/>\nto have his party dragged through the corridors of the courts?<br \/>\nThe prosecution of elected mayors in indictments prepared for money laundering ties with criminal organizations?<br \/>\nHe was bleeding inside.<br \/>\nHe would not shut up,<br \/>\nhe couldn't talk.<br \/>\nAnd he said:<br \/>\n\u201cWe will be cleansed.\u201d<br \/>\nHe was humble enough to call his own companions \u201cself-sacrificing and self-sacrificing\u201d.<br \/>\nHe also had the political wisdom to foresee that this struggle was directed against the party's institutional identity.<br \/>\nExpulsion decisions made by the party leadership without even asking for a defense;<br \/>\nresponded with patience and steadfastness.<br \/>\nSome understood,<br \/>\nsome ignored it.<br \/>\nIn the process, a growing hostility towards K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was fomented in the public and within the party.<br \/>\nThose who made the lists from his pen,<br \/>\nwaving their daggers in public without cooling them.<br \/>\nThose who yesterday competed to be in the same frame with him,<br \/>\nprovincial presidents who lashed out at \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel and his team in the congress hall,<br \/>\nthe next day they did a 180.<br \/>\nBut none of them took a courageous stand.<br \/>\nSILENCE.<br \/>\nWith different indictments emerging day by day;<br \/>\nIt was obvious to everyone what kind of political vortex they were in.<br \/>\nThose who sink as they struggle,<br \/>\nthose who cling to the wrong branches to survive.<br \/>\nSILENCE.<br \/>\nSilence;<br \/>\nThey must have been nurturing the hope that they would be included in the lists for the next elections by the current party leadership.<br \/>\nOne forward, two back...<br \/>\nSo much so;<br \/>\nthe words of those who joined the party later, who had ideological disagreements with the CHP;<br \/>\nThey were turning a deaf ear to insults to beliefs and cultural values.<br \/>\nSILENCE.<\/p>\n<p>Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu said:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cLet the brave step forward.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nA courage came.<br \/>\nFormer MPs, provincial and district presidents;<br \/>\nThe current term MPs also did not remain silent and issued a declaration.<br \/>\nAnd then<br \/>\nThere is no one left.<br \/>\nTHEY SHUT UP. LET THEM SHUT UP.<br \/>\nWhen that day comes,<br \/>\n\u201cThey should not say, \u201dWe were in the middle of a fight, we were punched twice or thrown a punch.\".<br \/>\nBecause punches don't count in this fight.<br \/>\nThose who have endured all kinds of insults, troll attacks and lynch attempts for three years;<br \/>\nthose who put the impudent in their place;<br \/>\nthose who keep this fire alive by dividing the alimony of their homes;<br \/>\nthose who pay the price in advance...<br \/>\nThey will continue to stand by the truth tirelessly and tirelessly.<br \/>\nO,<br \/>\nHe saw his true companions walking with him.<br \/>\nWithout any vested interest,<br \/>\nwithout any desire for office or seat,<br \/>\nwithout taking part in any shady dealings, dirty bargains, or clandestine conspiracies...<br \/>\nHonorable, DIGNIFIED AND MORAL companions;<br \/>\nas close as the carotid artery.<br \/>\nTHOSE WHO REMAIN SILENT SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN SILENT.<br \/>\nWhen that day comes;<br \/>\nif we are not silent today despite everything,<br \/>\nwe will not be silent on that day either.<br \/>\nAnd remember:<br \/>\nEveryone in politics has an agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murat Adiguzel<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping silent must have been feeding the hope that they would be included in the lists of the current party administration in the next elections.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politika","8":"tag-chp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282455,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453\/revisions\/282455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}