{"id":285862,"date":"2026-05-13T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=285862"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:59:48","slug":"zoomers-selling-their-souls-and-the-anonymous-shadow-of-the-six-arrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/zoomers-selling-their-souls-and-the-anonymous-shadow-of-the-six-arrows\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cZoomers\u201d Who Sold Their Souls and the Disidentified Shadow of the Six Arrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics in Turkey is no longer an arena where ideas compete; it has turned into a closed-circuit bidding hall for an \u201celite club\u201d that feeds on the blood and cells of the party and the dreams of those immaculate party members.<\/p>\n<p>The question whispered in the corridors of the CHP today, \u201cHow much did you give to so-and-so deputy for candidacy?\u201d is not just an allegation of corruption; it is a record of the sacrifice of merit to the \u201cstock market\u201d and the Six Arrows to the \u201crent gate\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Souls Sold in Zoom Rooms<\/h3>\n<p>The story of those who put their souls on the bargaining table behind closed doors and in secret Zoom meetings in order to become an MP or mayor is the most concrete form of this decay. Those who change sides overnight, those who today dig wells for those they called \u201cmy leader\u201d yesterday have only one concern: Protecting the office. This tradition of \u201cZoomism\u201d has destroyed sincerity in the party and replaced it with a mob of political opportunists whose loyalty is only to the seat.<\/p>\n<p>What is even more painful is that names who have never even passed through the party's neighborhood, who have turned their backs on CHP values throughout their lives, are rewarded with mayorships and council memberships just for the sake of certain balances or financial relations. Can a CHP member who hides under the Six Arrows and makes the \u201cBozkurt sign\u201d on the dais be elected? This is not just a visual contrast; it is tampering with the party's genetics and ideological cells. A structure that excludes its own children and distributes offices to foreign politicians, prepares its own end with its own hands.<\/p>\n<p>The entrenched structures (A\u011fababalar, B\u00f6keler, Mahirler, Tezcanl\u0131lar...) that had descended on the party during Mr. Kemal's term have only changed masks today. K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu did not hit the \u201chard edges\u201d of the state to such an extent when he knocked on SADAT's door or when he walked the roads during the March for Justice. Today, however, \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel and Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu's team are playing with Turkey's fundamental values that need to survive, while at the same time running the risk of becoming pawns in the hands of the \u201cinsatiable crowd\u201d within the party.<\/p>\n<p>This ideological drift brings with it moral weakness. While the confessions of names such as Ertan Y\u0131ld\u0131z and G\u00fclibrahimo\u011flu, who were named in the Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu cases, are obvious, the fact that some CHP members have become \u201cshamelessly\u201d defending these names is the final point.<\/p>\n<p>While the name of the municipalities is associated not with service but with shady tenders, the mud that splashes on the party swallows the corporate identity.<\/p>\n<p>With the change in the presidency, it is as if the party's memory has been formatted by someone. Where is the \u201c128 Billion Dollars\u201d that was shouted in the squares every day? Where is the \u201cGang of 5\u2019 who squatted on the people's livelihood? What about the Demir\u00f6ren Group, whose debts were scraped off with a pen? Those who yesterday promised to hold these corrupt people to account are today so busy covering up their own \u201dmoney laundering\u201c allegations that they are afraid to even mention the names of the big profiteers.<\/p>\n<p>The most painful thing is the unconscious protective reflex of the \u201cpure\u201d base, the real owners of the party, without questioning what is right and what is wrong. Those who \u201cshield\u201d the wrongdoers because they are from their own hometown or affiliation are actually the biggest protectors of that mob. Will these people not be ashamed of what they have done tomorrow? Those professional parasites who see politics as a \u201clivelihood\u201d rather than a matter of morality will probably not be ashamed. But how will that sincere party member who is after $128 billion look in the mirror when this disidentification and mud spreads everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>This structure, which constantly points to an \u201cenemy\u201d and triggers the weaknesses of the base, actually empties the essence of the party. When the revolutionary spirit of the Six Arrows is replaced by the silence of the \u201cmoney laundering\u201d and the bargaining of Zoom rooms, there is no longer a party of the people, but an \u201calliance of interests\u201d. History will not write about this silence and unconscious alignments, but about those who do not share in the wrong by saying \u201cwe are from us\u201d and who do not lose their memory.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00fcrekli bir &#8220;d\u00fc\u015fman&#8221; i\u015faret edip taban\u0131n zaaflar\u0131n\u0131 tetikleyen bu yap\u0131, asl\u0131nda partinin \u00f6z\u00fcn\u00fc bo\u015falt\u0131yor.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":285863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-285862","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\/285862","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285864,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285862\/revisions\/285864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}