{"id":285929,"date":"2026-05-15T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=285929"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:36:08","slug":"you-cant-win-every-election-you-have-to-choose-the-election-you-can-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/you-cant-win-every-election-you-have-to-choose-the-election-you-can-win\/","title":{"rendered":"You can't win every election, you have to choose the one you can win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The point was that K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu actually won that election with 48.5 percent!<br \/>\nYou can't win every election...<br \/>\nLet me tell you a true story that happened during the election period.<br \/>\nIn a major province, applications for CHP parliamentary nomination are being made ahead of the general elections. A total of 31 people are running as candidates. Among them are well-known names both in Turkey and in the city where they are running.<br \/>\nAt that time, the CHP administration divided the whole country into 8 regions and provincial coordinators were assigned to each region. One of the deputy chairmen of that period met with the candidates of that province and prepared the list and a surprise name was put at the top of the list.<br \/>\nI can give all the names, including deputy presidents, to those who want. Anyone who wants to verify can contact me.<br \/>\nAnd here comes the election result...<br \/>\nCHP can only get 1 deputy in that province.<br \/>\nMoreover, it turns out that the person selected was placed in the first place after another deputy chairman annotated the list. When the well-known names who were left off the list investigate why they were eliminated, they come across an interesting picture.<br \/>\nDespite their clean criminal records, some candidates who are expected to be at the top of the list are said to have taken files to the headquarters. The files are said to contain moral gossip and rumors, not concrete evidence.<br \/>\nThere is no evidence<br \/>\nThere is only the conviction that \u201cthe party may be in a morally difficult situation\u201d.<br \/>\nAnd with this conviction, some names are left off the list. As a result, only 1 desired MP is elected in that province.<br \/>\nIt's a joke, right?<br \/>\nBut looking at what happened today, the logic with which the headquarters approached the elections becomes clearer.<br \/>\nI am writing this in capital letters so that the voters will not forget the understanding at the root of today's chaos:<br \/>\n\u201cYOU CAN'T WIN EVERY ELECTION, YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE THE ONE YOU CAN WIN.\u201d<br \/>\nI believe this is exactly what the team that nominated K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu had in mind.<br \/>\nAccording to them, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu would lose the election, but they would control the party by winning the \u201celection of their choice\u201d, the congress.<br \/>\nBut there was one thing they could not calculate:<br \/>\nThe fact that Mr. K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu won that election with 48.5 percent of the vote...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe this is exactly what the team that nominated K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu had in mind.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":285930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-285929","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\/285929","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285931,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285929\/revisions\/285931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}