{"id":282662,"date":"2026-02-13T06:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=282662"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:43:03","slug":"is-the-nightmare-awaiting-the-hard-rock-kor-balta-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/is-the-nightmare-awaiting-the-hard-rock-kor-balta-chp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rock, Blind Axe: The Nightmare Waiting for CHP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is the reality of \u201c24 hours\u201d in politics; sometimes one day, sometimes two...<br \/>\nBut the developments of the last 48 hours were enough to completely dominate the agenda.<br \/>\nThe reshuffles in the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior were of course important. The appointment to the Interior Ministry was also influential, but the real game changer was the \u201cchange\u201d in the Justice Ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cThose who dragged the CHP into pollution with the rhetoric of \u201dchange\" did not like this change for some reason. Instead of expressing their discontent with words, they preferred to express it with fists on some pretext.<\/p>\n<p>So what was the point?<\/p>\n<p>The new Minister of Justice, Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek, was the Chief Public Prosecutor of Istanbul before taking office as minister. <strong>\u201cEkrem Imamoglu is a criminal organization for profit\u201d<\/strong> who filled out the dossier referred to as the \"dossier.<br \/>\nHe was the one who paved the way for Mr. Ekrem to be tried for up to 2350 years; he was the one who identified many crimes, not just one, and prepared the indictment with folders full of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>While these files made it almost impossible for Mr. Ekrem to get out of jail, CHP Chairman \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel said the following at a rally in Gaziosmanpa\u015fa on June 5, 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI'll rub your nose on the ground like this, like this.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Akin, you hit a hard rock, son, you hit a hard rock...<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Make up your mind!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I'll never see that bastard again!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel actually said these words or someone in Silivri made him say them is a matter of debate.<br \/>\nAs the file expanded, \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel turned to his MPs and said the following sentence:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf I go in and do 30 years, you do 30 years with me.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nSo it's a clear <strong>\u201call of us or none of us\u201d<\/strong> Warning.<br \/>\nLooking at the picture today, it is clear that it was not Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek who hit the hard rock, but \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel who hit the rock with an axe.<br \/>\nAk\u0131n G\u00fcrlek was not snubbed; on the contrary, he became Minister of Justice.<br \/>\nIf you can get out of it, Mr. Ozgur...<br \/>\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel does not only have the events of the 38th shady congress in front of him.<br \/>\nIBB and Mr. Ekrem, in particular, must account for what is going on in the municipalities.<br \/>\nWhat was given and received in tenders, bribery allegations, bank receipts, title deed records, SSI entries, the hiring of relatives of those who were included in Mr. Ekrem's \u201cpool\u201d, video and audio recordings; the table extending from those who ate baklava to the 70-80 apartments allegedly distributed through K\u0130PTA\u015e...<br \/>\nThe issue of the confessors is now a settled matter.<br \/>\nAt this point, \u00d6zg\u00fcr Bey cannot rub anyone's nose in the ground.<br \/>\nOn the contrary, it seems almost impossible to get out of these plastered files. Moreover, it is clear that it will only get worse.<\/p>\n<p>It should be underlined:<br \/>\nAkin Gurlek is not the reason why it has come to this.<br \/>\nIf there is a debate on \u201cabsolute nullity\u201d in the coming days, it will not be because of Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek.<br \/>\nOne inevitably asks the question:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cDid \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel say \u2018take this\u2019 and it was taken?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It does not seem possible to dismiss all these events as a \u201cpolitical case\u201d. If there had been a CHP member in the Justice Ministry, would he have waited for the constitution to be ignored?<\/p>\n<p>There was also a change in the Minister of Interior.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, two of the most critical ministries of the state changed hands unexpectedly on the same day. Yet these two ministries are the institutions that should work in harmony with each other.<br \/>\nThis situation inevitably raises the following question:<br \/>\nIs this the second stage of the purification process?<br \/>\nIf the \u201cpurification\u201d of the CHP's municipalities through IBB and Mr. Ekrem has been completed, is the internal purification of the CHP next?<br \/>\nThis is because these folders are rumored to contain the names not only of mayors but also of CHP deputies.<br \/>\nIn order to do this, these ministries had to be \u201cconsolidated\u201d first. It appears that this step has been taken.<\/p>\n<p>Let's take a calmer look at the fight in Parliament.<br \/>\nThe fact that those who took the floor to take the oath were physically attacked instead of using legal means is an attempt by CHP deputies to send a message to their base that \u201cwe are fighting\u201d. Even though they knew that they could not overcome the result, they tried to consolidate the base with the image of \u201cwe are fighting hand to hand\u201d.<br \/>\nAKP MPs, on the other hand, beat up any CHP MP who came in front of them.<br \/>\nNames like Mahmut Tanal, who likes to stand out in every fight, have also made their own PR in this process.<br \/>\nWhat I regret is not that these names were beaten up; it is that it is a black stain on the history of the CHP.<br \/>\nHistory, <strong>\u201cAKP deputies beat up CHP deputies\u201d<\/strong> he will write.<br \/>\nAnd once again it will be the CHP that will be tarnished.<\/p>\n<p>As a final word, the following should be said:<br \/>\nMr. \u00d6zg\u00fcr, you didn't let anyone's nose touch the ground.<br \/>\nBut the days of rubbing your own nose in it seem to be near.<br \/>\nYou know that you have hit a hard rock, you know that you have hit a stone with an axe.<br \/>\nIt cannot be denied that Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek's hand is now much stronger.<br \/>\nI see these appointments as a harbinger of nightmarish days to come for the CHP.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHP and the New Curtain of Purification within the State...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":282663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[15,289,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-282662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-chp","9":"tag-manset","10":"tag-ozgur-ozel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282662","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282664,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282662\/revisions\/282664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}