Ozgur Ozel;<\/p>\n
\u201cYou say, \u201dEither a life of dignity or this black order\"...<\/p>\n
But in this country people are no longer interested in the aesthetics of slogans,
\nhe looks at the life from which those slogans emerge.<\/p>\n
Because Turkey has been watching the same political theater for many years.<\/p>\n
Words are changing
\nFaces are changing
\nParty logos are changing...
\nBut the character of the relationship with power does not change.<\/p>\n
Someone keeps saying \u201cchange\u201d,
\nBut when you look at how that change is reflected in everyday life, what emerges is often just a new ruling class.<\/p>\n
And that is precisely why society is now angry.<\/p>\n
Because people have been hearing the same sentence for years:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are different.\u201d<\/p>\n
But then they look back:<\/p>\n
The same protocol language...
\nThe same reflex of authority...
\nThe same passion for comfort...
\nThe same habit of turning public opportunities into personal status spaces...<\/p>\n
This is where trust collapses.<\/p>\n
Because it is no longer just a question of a car.<\/p>\n
Issue,
\nwith the moral language used to criticize the government,
\nis the gap between the life lived when one enters the sphere of power.<\/p>\n
And as that chasm grows,
\nthe legitimacy of politics is starting to erode.<\/p>\n
Because people now see this very clearly:<\/p>\n
On the one hand, \u201cpopulism\u201d speeches...
\nOn the other hand, yacht tables...<\/p>\n
On the one hand, the \u201cblack order\u201d discourse...
\nOn the other hand, new comfort areas growing with municipal facilities...<\/p>\n
On the one hand, slogans of \u201cequality\u201d...
\nOn the other hand, the VIP political culture...<\/p>\n
And do you know what the most serious part is?<\/p>\n
All this is still shamelessly marketed as \u201cchange\u201d.<\/p>\n
No, no, no.<\/p>\n
This is not change.<\/p>\n
This is just a transfer of power reflexes to other cadres.<\/p>\n
Because this is precisely where politics rots.<\/p>\n
A person first begins to resemble the one he criticizes.
\nThen it becomes him.
\nIn the end, he defends her.<\/p>\n
This is exactly what is happening today.<\/p>\n
Whatever criticism was directed at the AKP yesterday,
\nToday the same behavior is justified by saying \u201cbut ours\u201d.<\/p>\n
What was called \u201cpublic plunder\u201d yesterday is now called \u201csecurity needs\u201d.
\nWhat was called \u201cwaste\u201d yesterday is now called \u201cprotocol obligation\u201d.
\nWhat was called \u201cpomp\u201d yesterday is called \u201cstate tradition\u201d today.<\/p>\n
And society no longer believes in these language games.<\/p>\n
Because the public no longer only looks at what is being said.<\/p>\n
He looks at how it is lived.<\/p>\n
The Republican People's Party is not an ordinary party.<\/p>\n
This party;
\nIt is the party of the people who carried bullets to the front with ox carts.<\/p>\n
This party;
\nis the party of those who built a state in poverty.<\/p>\n
This party;
\nnot those who turn office into personal comfort,
\nis the history of people who gave up their own comforts if necessary.<\/p>\n
It is in the party's memory,
\nnot politicians who grew up on the backs of the people;
\nThere are cadres who pay the price together with the people.<\/p>\n
With B\u00fclent Ecevit's modesty,
\nWith Ismet Inonu's state seriousness,
\nWe are talking about a tradition shaped by the ethic of sacrifice of the Kuva-y\u0131 Milliye.<\/p>\n
And that's exactly why the images that emerged today,
\nIt is not an ordinary political debate.<\/p>\n
It creates a moral fracture.<\/p>\n
Because people are now asking the question openly:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are so populist,
\nWhy are you building a new political aristocracy with money from the people's pockets?\u201d<\/p>\n
And this is the center of the whole debate.<\/p>\n
Because it is not about a vehicle of office.<\/p>\n
Issue,
\nis the mentality that the vehicle represents.<\/p>\n
Because if you really needed that car,
\ndon't worry;<\/p>\n
Honorable members of this party that fought the War of Independence on a cart,
\nhe would have bought you that car again by collecting money among themselves.<\/p>\n
But no CHP member,
\nleaning on a municipal budget,
\nto turn a people's tax into a personal comfort zone.<\/p>\n
Because sacrifice, not privilege, is in the genetic code of the CHP.<\/p>\n
And that is precisely why what is happening today is not just a crisis of political communication.<\/p>\n
This one,
\nIt is the deep moral rift between the CHP's historical spirit and its current practice.<\/p>\n
Because people are not new slogans anymore,
\nwants to see a new political morality.<\/p>\n
But there is another growing picture:<\/p>\n
A new political aristocracy formed through municipalities...<\/p>\n
Those who talk about revolutionism at yacht tables...
\nThose who turn populism into a VIP protocol system...
\n\u201cTalking with the rhetoric of \u201dlabor\",
\nthose who reproduce all the comfort reflexes of power...<\/p>\n
And then they still say \u201cwe are change\u201d.<\/p>\n
No, no, no.<\/p>\n
This is not change.<\/p>\n
This is just a changing of the guard.<\/p>\n
And this is exactly what society now objects to.<\/p>\n
FROM PUBLICIST TRADITION TO MUNICIPAL ARISTOCRACY<\/strong><\/p>\n The historical weight of the Republican People's Party did not only come from elections.<\/p>\n This party, He called it publicism. And millions of people for years, Because there was this thought in the minds of the society:<\/p>\n \u201cAt least they won't turn the public sphere into a personal domain.\u201d<\/p>\n This is precisely where the CHP's historical legitimacy was born.<\/p>\n But the picture that emerges today, Because there are no longer just a few controversial images.<\/p>\n There is a growing political culture.<\/p>\n A new political aristocracy formed through municipalities...<\/p>\n Armies of bodyguards And do you know what the most serious part is?<\/p>\n All this is still defended with the language of \u201cpopulism\u201d.<\/p>\n This is precisely where social anger grows.<\/p>\n Because people in Turkey are no longer just experiencing an economic crisis.<\/p>\n It is also experiencing a crisis of representation.<\/p>\n People who say they represent them, A pensioner calculating grains in the market... On the one hand, there is this reality.<\/p>\n On the other side, And then they turn around and call it \u201cchange\u201d.<\/p>\n No, no, no.<\/p>\n This is not change.<\/p>\n This one, Because human language can change. But not if its relationship with the public does not change, This is exactly what is happening in Turkey today.<\/p>\n Part of the opposition, And society now sees this.<\/p>\n Because people understood this very clearly:<\/p>\n The true character of a politician, That is why it is not just a means to an end.<\/p>\n Issue, Because they are used after a while, And the image that emerged today, This is where the danger begins.<\/p>\n Because politics, And this was the biggest crisis in Turkey for years.<\/p>\n What was the most harsh criticism of the AKP?<\/p>\n Public facilities, Equating pomp with state administration. And what has changed now?<\/p>\n If today the same reflexes are reproduced by other cadres, This is called the old order, only maintained by new actors.<\/p>\n And this is precisely the biggest disappointment of society.<\/p>\n Because people no longer just want the government to change.<\/p>\n He wants political morality to change.<\/p>\n Not new slogans, But the growing picture is suggestive:<\/p>\n Part of the opposition in Turkey, And this one, Because movements that lose elections can recover.<\/p>\n But structures that have lost their moral legitimacy, Because politics is not just the art of winning elections.<\/p>\n It is also an ethic of representation.<\/p>\n And the moment the morality of representation collapses, Today, the CHP faces just such a historical threshold.<\/p>\n Either it will return to its founding spirit... Either it is really publicist, Or it will become another version of the order it has criticized for years.<\/p>\n And history, And perhaps the most tragic part of the issue starts right here.<\/p>\n Because people in Turkey no longer only look at what the government is doing.<\/p>\n Opposition, Because the basic story that has been told in this country for years was this:<\/p>\n \u201cAKP has turned the public sector into an arena of personal power.\u201d So what do people see today?<\/p>\n A new language of comfort growing through municipalities... And most importantly:<\/p>\n All of this is still being dressed up with the concepts of \u201cleftism\u201d, \u201cpopulism\u201d, \u201cchange\u201d and \u201cjustice\u201d.<\/p>\n This is where the real break in the conscience of society occurs.<\/p>\n Because people in this country are no longer surprised by the pomp of a right-wing government.<\/p>\n But a political movement that defines itself on the basis of populism, Because the CHP's historical claim was not only to win elections.<\/p>\n It was to build a political character.<\/p>\n It was not just about being in power.<\/p>\n It was to show another morality against the corrupting reflexes of power.<\/p>\n That is exactly what people are questioning today.<\/p>\n Because people now see this:<\/p>\n Someone keeps saying \u201cthe people\u201d... Someone keeps saying \u201clabor\u201d... Someone keeps saying \u201cequality\u201d... And as this contradiction grows, WITHOUT PURIFICATION THE WORD \u201cHONOR\u201d HAS NO MEANING<\/strong><\/p>\n And now we come to the most critical part of the issue.<\/p>\n Because it is no longer just a question of political communication.<\/p>\n Issue, Imagine a party:<\/p>\n He talks about \u201cclean politics\u201d on the podium... \u201cHe says \u201dhonor\"... \u201cHe says \u201dpopulism\"... This is where public trust is broken.<\/p>\n Because people are now asking:<\/p>\n If you are really different, Why transparency you want for everyone, Why do you call for an \u201cindependent judiciary\u201d but when it comes to the proceedings, the political defense reflex kicks in?<\/p>\n And more importantly:<\/p>\n Why is it that the same criticisms you have leveled against the AKP for years are now \u201cnormal\u201d for you?<\/p>\n No, no, no.<\/p>\n True honor, Because it is the true character of the politician, And this is precisely the real test for the CHP today.<\/p>\n Either he is really going to have a historical cleansing... Because it is no longer a matter of a few names.<\/p>\n Issue, If you really call it \u201chonorable politics\u201d, Anyone who is under serious suspicion will be dealt with.<\/p>\n The immunity of MPs with criminal proceedings is lifted.<\/p>\n Mayors and executives who have been indicted, Because no one, Yes, But politics is not only legal, And when moral trust is lost, This is precisely the message the CHP should deliver today:<\/p>\n \u201cWe also police ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Because society now wants to see this:<\/p>\n It does not resemble the AKP system that has been criticized for years, Or people are tired of hearing the same sentence:<\/p>\n \u201cIt's okay when our people do it.\u201d<\/p>\n No, no, no.<\/p>\n On the contrary.<\/p>\n If the CHP really wants to preserve its historical claim, Because it is a structure that does not experience purification, And the greatest decay, What is needed today is not new slogans, Because sometimes it is not the election victory that saves a party, He fought the War of Independence, This one, And that is precisely why the CHP's challenge today is not just elections.<\/p>\n Issue, The spirit of sacrifice of the Kuva... And perhaps the most serious aspect of today's debate is this:<\/p>\n It is not only external attacks that are exhausting the CHP, Because no political movement, The real unraveling, And that is exactly what millions of people in Turkey feel today.<\/p>\n On the one hand, they talk about populism... On the one hand, labor is emphasized... On the one hand, the \u201cblack order\u201d is criticized. And society no longer ignores this contradiction.<\/p>\n Because people are not stupid.<\/p>\n People of this country, That is precisely why today's crisis is happening, Because people are no longer just those who govern, And this one, Because the greatest strength of the opposition is not only its rhetoric.<\/p>\n It is a claim to moral superiority.<\/p>\n If that claim is eroded, And society, \u201cSo everyone is the same.\u201d<\/p>\n And this is where the biggest collapse of politics begins.<\/p>\n Because when a society's hope dies, This is precisely the greatest danger in Turkey today.<\/p>\n People losing faith in politics.<\/p>\n Because people are no longer just in power, And he asks the question:<\/p>\n \u201cIf you criticized them for years, As long as this question remains unanswered, Because history has shown us this:<\/p>\n It is not only organizational strength that sustains a movement.<\/p>\n It is moral credibility.<\/p>\n And the moment moral credibility is lost, Ahlaki inand\u0131r\u0131c\u0131l\u0131k kayboldu\u011fu anda,
\nIn Turkey, it sees itself not only as an alternative to power,
\nbut also as a claim to political morality.<\/p>\n
\nHe called it populism.
\nHe called it sacrifice.
\nHe said that he was against the use of state resources for personal vanity.<\/p>\n
\nEven if it was not in power, it gave the CHP a certain moral credit.<\/p>\n
\nit makes me think the opposite.<\/p>\n
\nVIP lounges
\nProtocol privileges
\nExecutive reflexes
\nThe normalization of luxury as \u201cnormal management practice\u201d...<\/p>\n
\nincreasingly detached from his own life.<\/p>\n
\nYoung people who can't pay their rent...
\nParents who cannot give pocket money to their children...
\nMillions struggling to survive on minimum wage...<\/p>\n
\na new stratum of political elite that has started to reproduce all the comfort codes of power...<\/p>\n
\nis the transfer of the habits of power to the opposition.<\/p>\n
\nThe slogan may change.
\nHis party may change.<\/p>\n
\nWhat emerges is only a new ruling class.<\/p>\n
\nthe moral language he uses when criticizing the government,
\nas soon as it enters the sphere of power, it starts to leave.<\/p>\n
\nnot in the sentences he spoke when he was in opposition;
\nin the way he leads his life when he reaches power.<\/p>\n
\nis the political consciousness represented by that vehicle.<\/p>\n
\ntables sat at,
\nestablished protocols,
\nreveals one's understanding of politics.<\/p>\n
\nMore than the spirit of sacrifice of the Kuva-y Milliye;
\nIt evokes a new political aristocracy growing through municipalities.<\/p>\n
\nIt rots the moment it speaks for the people and becomes detached from the people.<\/p>\n
\ntransforming it into a comfort zone of power.<\/p>\n
\nTurning public power into an arena of personal prestige.<\/p>\n
\nWith all due respect, this is not \u201cnew politics\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nhe wants to see a new character.<\/p>\n
\nrather than changing power;
\nis preparing to become the new ruler of that order.<\/p>\n
\nis a far greater danger than defeat at the ballot box.<\/p>\n
\nbegin to lose their historical weight.<\/p>\n
\neven the most powerful slogans turn into empty propaganda.<\/p>\n
\nOr it will turn into a new political elite club that thrives on municipal resources.<\/p>\n
\npopulist,
\nwill produce a modest political character...<\/p>\n
\nwill judge those who made that choice very harshly.<\/p>\n
\nto the point where it starts to resemble power.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe created a new privileged class with state funds.\u201d
\n\u201cHe mistook pomp for politics.\u201d
\n\u201cHe has lost touch with the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA new protocol order...
\nA new political elite culture...<\/p>\n
\nIt is even more disappointing when it starts producing the same reflexes.<\/p>\n
\nBut he doesn't live like the people.<\/p>\n
\nBut the distance between the life of labor and its own life is constantly growing.<\/p>\n
\nBut politics is increasingly producing a VIP culture.<\/p>\n
\nThe credibility of slogans is also collapsing.<\/p>\n
\nis directly a question of moral legitimacy.<\/p>\n
\nBut he cannot touch names that are under suspicion.<\/p>\n
\nBut he is silent about the pending investigations.<\/p>\n
\nBut it is unable to put forward a real will against the new networks of interests emerging through the municipalities.<\/p>\n
\nWhy don't you settle accounts within yourselves?<\/p>\n
\nfor your own municipalities?<\/p>\n
\nnot just against the opponent;
\nis to be able to tell the truth in your own neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\nnot when you're yelling at the other neighborhood;
\nhow it treats the rot on its own side.<\/p>\n
\nOr it will become a carrier of the new political order that is emerging around the municipalities.<\/p>\n
\nis a matter of the character of the party.<\/p>\n
\nthen the thing to do is very clear:<\/p>\n
\nshall be withdrawn or suspended from party membership and party duties, if not from office, until the conclusion of the proceedings.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt cannot exempt politics from moral scrutiny by hiding behind the phrase \u201dbeing on trial is one thing, being guilty is another\".<\/p>\n
\nlegally everyone is innocent.<\/p>\n
\nit is also a moral domain.<\/p>\n
\npolitical legitimacy starts to erode.<\/p>\n
\na political morality that can be a real alternative to it.<\/p>\n
\nthe harshest scrutiny has to come from within.<\/p>\n
\nover time it loses every value it stands for.<\/p>\n
\nIt starts with the habit of defending the wrong.<\/p>\n
\nis a fierce internal reckoning.<\/p>\n
\nis its will against its own internal decay.<\/p>\n
\nestablished a state,
\nof a historical tradition that raised a country from poverty;
\nsurrendering to a new comfort system that thrives on municipal means,
\nis no ordinary political drift.<\/p>\n
\nis the erosion of historical memory.<\/p>\n
\nwhat spirit it will represent.<\/p>\n
\nOr a new order of political privilege that thrives on municipal resources...<\/p>\n
\nis the growth of contradictions within itself.<\/p>\n
\nis not solved only by attacking your opponents.<\/p>\n
\nIt begins when the distance between its own claim to foundation and the life it lives grows.<\/p>\n
\nOn the other side, a new form of political life, detached from the people, is growing.<\/p>\n
\nOn the other side, there is a language of protocol that has no connection with the reality that labor lives in.<\/p>\n
\nOn the other side, all the comfort codes of that order are reproduced.<\/p>\n
\nHe also sees who is really sacrificing,
\nHe also sees who only talks about sacrifice from the pulpit.<\/p>\n
\nnot only political;
\nis a moral crisis.<\/p>\n
\nIt has also started to question the opposition that speaks for it.<\/p>\n
\nIt is a very big break for Turkish politics.<\/p>\n
\nonly the struggle for power remains.<\/p>\n
\nafter a while, he just starts thinking:<\/p>\n
\ndemocracy becomes just a technical electoral contest.<\/p>\n
\nIt also questions the opposition's relationship with the public.<\/p>\n
\nwhy are you reproducing the same way of life?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthe erosion of trust in society is growing.<\/p>\n
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