{"id":285883,"date":"2026-05-14T05:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=285883"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:20:06","slug":"to-think-that-the-founding-party-can-be-backed-up-is-a-failure-of-the-sense-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/to-think-that-the-founding-party-can-be-backed-up-is-a-failure-of-the-sense-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking that the Founding Party can be \u201cbacked up\u201d: The Collapse of Historical Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the chairman of the Republican People's Party comes out,<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a reserve party, but not for nullity, but in case the party is shut down\u201d<br \/>\nhe says;<br \/>\nthere is no longer an ordinary political gaffe,<br \/>\nthere is a direct collapse of historical consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Because CHP,<br \/>\nis no ordinary election organization.<\/p>\n<p>CHP is the founding code of this state.<br \/>\nFrom Lausanne to revolutionary laws,<br \/>\nIt is the political backbone of the Republican regime, from secularism to the idea of national sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, talking about the possibility of \u201cshutting down\u201d the CHP,<br \/>\nnot the closing of a party sign,<br \/>\nIt means discussing the targeting of the historical legitimacy of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>And the first person who should understand that,<br \/>\nis the chairman of that party.<\/p>\n<p>But today we see,<br \/>\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel does not see the CHP as a historical founding subject,<br \/>\nlike an ordinary political corporation with legal risks.<\/p>\n<p>As if it is not the legacy of a hundred years of the Republic,<br \/>\nHe's talking about a holding company subsidiary that could face a tax investigation tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the real problem starts.<\/p>\n<p>Because they are big political movements,<br \/>\nIn moments of crisis, the \u201cbackup signboard\u201d does not speak.<br \/>\nLegitimacy speaks.<br \/>\nResistance speaks.<br \/>\nThe historical claim speaks.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of a founding party comes out:<br \/>\n\u201cIf we are shut down, we have an alternative ready\u201d<br \/>\ncan't say.<\/p>\n<p>There is no struggle in this sentence.<br \/>\nThere is no political self-confidence in this sentence.<br \/>\nThis sentence lacks the mental capacity to carry historical weight.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary,<br \/>\nthere is an extraordinary psychology of downsizing.<\/p>\n<p>What is more serious is this:<br \/>\nThis discourse,<br \/>\nIt does not increase the CHP's historical weight;<br \/>\nOn the contrary, it trivializes it.<\/p>\n<p>Because he is the leader of a party that founded the Republic,<br \/>\nIf he talks about the closure of his party as a technical risk management item,<br \/>\nit's not politics there anymore,<br \/>\nThere is institutional panic.<\/p>\n<p>And society starts to question:<\/p>\n<p>Do these people really know what the CHP stands for?<\/p>\n<p>Because it means the closure of the CHP,<br \/>\nIt is not just the closure of one party in Turkey.<br \/>\nIt means targeting the founding memory of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>But we see,<br \/>\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel is in a position to grasp this historical depth,<br \/>\nIt reduces the issue to the level of daily political agitation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the real tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPARTY IS BEING SHUT DOWN\u201d RHETORIC: FEAR PROPAGANDA OF POLITICAL IMPOTENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most remarkable reflex of the CHP leadership today is this:<\/p>\n<p>Whenever there is talk of a congress,<br \/>\nwhenever there are allegations of fraud,<br \/>\nWhenever municipality-politics-capital relations are questioned,<br \/>\nwhenever the delegation structure is criticized,<br \/>\nSuddenly, the issue is pulled to the emotional brink of \u201cthey are going to shut down the CHP\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is a conscious political method.<\/p>\n<p>Because fear,<br \/>\npolitics is not only an apparatus used by those in power.<br \/>\nThe opposition also generates fear to suppress its own internal control.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what is being done today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon't criticize us because the party is under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon't question the convention because the Republic is in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon't discuss the administration because the enemy will shut down the CHP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This discourse,<br \/>\nis the most comfortable way to avoid democratic accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Because when people are afraid, they stop questioning.<\/p>\n<p>And unfortunately the CHP administration,<br \/>\ninstead of growing the party's historical weight,<br \/>\nturning it into a psychological mobilization apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a very fundamental question:<\/p>\n<p>Is there really a \u201cparty closure\u201d process?,<br \/>\nOr is there an atmosphere of victimization that is being cultivated to suppress the political damage that the absolute nullity debate will cause?<\/p>\n<p>Because pay attention:<br \/>\nPolitical discourse is constantly being deliberately dramatized.<\/p>\n<p>There is an atmosphere in Turkey as if tanks will be parked in front of the CHP headquarters tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>This one,<br \/>\nnot political struggle;<br \/>\nIt is an operation to consolidate the base through fear.<\/p>\n<p>And here's the irony:<\/p>\n<p>CHP's historical tradition,<br \/>\nOn the contrary, it claimed to produce politics against fear.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time CHP,<br \/>\nrepresented a state-building political mind.<br \/>\nToday, it looks like a cadre that manages the crisis with a social media reflex.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of acting with the reflex of the founding party,<br \/>\nA fragile management psychology is on display, trying to survive through agenda engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Because they are self-confident political movements,<br \/>\ndo not constantly define themselves through a \u201cvictimization scenario\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A political mind that sees itself as permanently \u201cshut down\u201d,<br \/>\nin fact, in his own mind, he has already shrunk.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fundamental problem with \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel's administration:<br \/>\nNot the historical claim that made the CHP grow,<br \/>\nputting emotional mobilization at the center that saves the day.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result, the CHP,<br \/>\nRather than the founding party of the Republic,<br \/>\nhas begun to resemble a media organization engaged in crisis communication.<\/p>\n<p>This is the real danger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A POLITICAL MIND UNABLE TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF THE FOUNDING AND INEVITABLE COLLAPSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are some seats in politics;<br \/>\nyou can't sit just by winning elections.<\/p>\n<p>Those seats have a historical weight.<br \/>\nIt has a memory.<br \/>\nIt has a representative capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency of the Republican People's Party is exactly such an office.<\/p>\n<p>Because it's the chair,<br \/>\nis not an ordinary party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>That authority;<br \/>\nThe founding will of the Republic,<br \/>\nsecular legal order,<br \/>\nthe idea of modernization,<br \/>\nthe concept of national sovereignty,<br \/>\nrepresents a hundred years of political memory.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the person who is the President of the CHP,<br \/>\nnot only today's political crises,<br \/>\nIt must also carry that historical weight.<\/p>\n<p>But today we see,<br \/>\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel's political reflex,<br \/>\nit's not enough to support this weight.<\/p>\n<p>Because the founding party leadership;<br \/>\nIt is not done with panic language.<br \/>\nIt is not done with agitation of victimization.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is never done with phrases like \u201dwe have formed a reserve party\".<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary;<br \/>\ncomposure,<br \/>\nhistory consciousness,<br \/>\ncorporate dignity,<br \/>\nand political self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>You think about it:<br \/>\nThe chairman of a 103-year-old party,<br \/>\nnormalizes the possibility of his party being shut down,<br \/>\nand then presents it as strategic preparation.<\/p>\n<p>This one,<br \/>\nnot political leadership;<br \/>\nis a mental retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Because constituent parties do not \u201cback up\u201d themselves.\u201d<br \/>\nThe constituent parties defend themselves.<br \/>\nIt increases their social legitimacy.<br \/>\nThey make their historical weight felt.<\/p>\n<p>What we see today in the CHP leadership is the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a political mind that magnifies historical weight,<br \/>\nThere is a fragile management psychology trying to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>And unfortunately this psychology,<br \/>\nis not growing the party;<br \/>\nshrinking.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is a political movement,<br \/>\nfirst it shrinks mentally.<br \/>\nThen it shrinks socially.<\/p>\n<p>This is the main reason for the growing unrest in the CHP base today.<\/p>\n<p>People see not only political failure;<br \/>\nbut also sees a crisis of representation.<\/p>\n<p>Because CHP voters,<br \/>\na leadership that recognizes its historical weight.<\/p>\n<p>But what he encountered,<br \/>\nconstantly managing the agenda,<br \/>\nCrisis breaker,<br \/>\nengaged in emotional mobilization,<br \/>\na political language that elevates every discussion to the level of \u201cregime attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And this language,<br \/>\nwill not strengthen the CHP in the long run.<br \/>\nOn the contrary,<br \/>\nerodes the historical seriousness of the party.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary to speak frankly:<\/p>\n<p>Republican People's Party,<br \/>\ncannot be governed by the politics of fear.<\/p>\n<p>CHP;<br \/>\n\u201cnot with the psychology of \u201dwe are being shut down\",<br \/>\nIt must be governed with the self-confidence of a political will that founded the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>If a chairman,<br \/>\ncannot grasp the historical meaning of the party he leads;<br \/>\nhe can't carry the weight of that seat.<\/p>\n<p>And if a chairman,<br \/>\nA founding party like the CHP,<br \/>\n\u201cbacked up\u201d to the level of an ordinary organization;<br \/>\nIt is no longer just a political mistake there,<br \/>\nThere is a lack of representation.<\/p>\n<p>So it is not just a sentence that needs to be discussed today.<\/p>\n<p>What needs to be discussed,<br \/>\nThe question is whether \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel has truly internalized the historical weight of the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>And the picture is this:<\/p>\n<p>Unable to carry the historical weight of the Republican People's Party,<br \/>\nwho cannot grasp the meaning of the founding party,<br \/>\na president who, in times of crisis, produces a language of fear instead of political self-confidence,<br \/>\ncannot represent that office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel should resign.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d6zg\u00fcr 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