{"id":286257,"date":"2026-05-28T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=286257"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:02:22","slug":"absolute-butlan-was-too-much-in-the-chp-not-just-for-one-congress-but-for-a-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/absolute-butlan-was-too-much-in-the-chp-not-just-for-one-congress-but-for-a-period\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSOLUTELY FAILED NOT JUST A CONGRESS, BUT AN ERA COLLAPSED IN CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are some decisions in Turkish politics that not only have legal consequences but also unmask political masks. The \u201cabsolute nullity\u201d verdict against the CHP is exactly such a break. Because this decision not only showed that a congress had become controversial; it also revealed the legitimacy crisis of the structure that has been marketed with the packaging of \u201cchange\u201d, \u201chope\u201d and \u201crenewal\u201d for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Those who have been attacking Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu for months are now in a panic. This is because the allegations of fraud, which until yesterday they minimized, have now become the subject of court decisions. K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, whom they had lynched for years by saying that he was \u201cseat-loving\u201d, \u201cdoesn't know how to leave\u201d and \u201cfinished the party\u201d, is now legally facing the possibility of returning to the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And that is exactly what hurts them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because it was never just about elections.<br \/>\nThis issue was difficult.<br \/>\nThey were cadres.<br \/>\nMunicipalities.<br \/>\nIt was tenders.<br \/>\nIt was media relations.<br \/>\nThey were new networks of power within the party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the reason for the anger that emerged today after the absolute nullity verdict. Because it can no longer be hidden that behind what has been marketed as a \u201cmovement for change\u201d for years, there is actually a much harsher power struggle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Many of those who attacked Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu have been in politics alongside him for years. They were in the PM. They were in the MYK. They were in the municipalities. They were on the screens. Those who kept silent that day are now trying to pin the entire bill on a single person. This is not political criticism; it is outright historical engineering.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Even more striking is this:<br \/>\nThe attacks against K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu had already crossed political boundaries. His family was targeted. Insinuations were made over his faith. Attempts were made to discredit him through social media operations. And while all this was going on, most of those who spoke of \u201cdemocracy\u201d remained silent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because their understanding of democracy was conjunctural, not principled.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now the same circles are calling the court decision \u201cinterference in politics\u201d. So why didn't you demand real transparency when the allegations in the congress process were being discussed for months? If everything was squeaky clean, why are you so afraid?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the real issue facing the CHP.<br \/>\nToday the party has been plunged not only into a crisis of governance but also into a crisis of moral legitimacy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And at this point, Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's return to the presidency is no longer just a question of names. It is a question of whether the CHP will return to institutional wisdom or continue to fragment among cliques and power centers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps the most ironic thing is this:<br \/>\nThose who scoffed for years that \u201cK\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was left alone\u201d see today that the real ones who are left alone are the political alliances that are the first to abandon each other when the balance of interests breaks down.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is not alone.<br \/>\nBecause it is no longer a matter of one person.<br \/>\nThe issue is who represents the soul of the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>WE MUST BE PURIFIED\u201d: KILI\u00c7DARO\u011eLU FORESAW THE ROT<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's statement years ago that \u201cwe must purify ourselves\u201d was scorned by many at the time. Some thought it was an ordinary call for introspection. Some ridiculed it. Some even deliberately covered up this call. Because if that statement had been taken seriously, it would have opened the door to a huge showdown within the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today, when we look back, we see that K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu actually saw the great decay that was coming before anyone else.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because what has been happening in the CHP in recent years was not just a difference of political opinion. A new power architecture was being established within the party. A political network was being shaped through municipalities. A climate shaped by media operations was being created. While the party organization was being pushed to the background, social media trolls and screen faces were moving to the center of politics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the most dangerous thing was this:<br \/>\nAnyone who criticized was declared an enemy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Imagine a party...<br \/>\nTalking about the shady congress process is considered a crime.<br \/>\nQuestioning the pressure on delegates is considered treason.<br \/>\nDiscussing ethics within the party is labeled as \u201cworking for power\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is where the phrase \u201cwe must purify\u201d takes on a historical meaning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because purification is not just the removal of a few people from office. Purification is to put politics back on a moral ground. If the CHP really wants to stand up again today, it must first confront the rot within itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And no one here is to be excused:<br \/>\nThis confrontation cannot be done by saying \u201cdon't let them be offended\u201d, \u201cdon't let the party suffer\u201d, \u201cthis is not the time\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On the contrary.<br \/>\nIt is these years of cowardice that have brought the CHP to where it is today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Do you know why a significant part of the society is distant from the CHP today? Because people think that not only the government but also the opposition has started to cover up its own mistakes. The arrogance of \u201cour people won't do it\u201d is the most dangerous disease of politics. AKP has been infected with this disease for years. If the CHP is dragged into the same swamp, it will have no moral superiority in the eyes of the public.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is why Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's biggest test in the new period will be \u201cliquidation\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If it's really purification;<br \/>\nAll those implicated in corruption allegations must be purged without question.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No matter who you are.<br \/>\nRegardless of which municipality he runs.<br \/>\nRegardless of which clique you come from.<br \/>\nRegardless of who has close media support.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because true cleansing begins the day you can face the wrong that is closest to you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the main fear of many people in the CHP today.<br \/>\nWhat they fear even more than a court ruling is the possibility of questioning names they have considered untouchable for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Who put pressure on the delegates?<br \/>\nWho used municipal resources for internal party engineering?<br \/>\nWho organized the media operations?<br \/>\nWho tried to run the party not with the organizational mind but with PR companies?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In fact, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's call for \u201cpurification\u201d was precisely this order.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps this is why the anger of those who target him the most today is so great. Because they see K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's comeback not only as a change of leader. They also see it as a threat to the comfort zone they have built for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But history is sometimes cruel.<br \/>\nPeople who were called \u201cfinished\u201d yesterday may become accountable again today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And if Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu does indeed take over the CHP again, the task ahead of him this time will go beyond winning elections:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To put the party back on a moral footing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because sometimes what keeps a party alive is not its electoral success, but the fact that it does not give in to the rot within itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>THEY SAID \u201dCHANGE\", THEY ESTABLISHED A NEW OLIGARCHY<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the most dangerous manipulations of politics in Turkey is this:<br \/>\nMarketing a power struggle as a \u201cmoral revolution\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is exactly what happened in the CHP in the last two years. The process, which was based on the slogan of \u201cchange\u201d, turned into the construction of a new power bloc rather than a democratic renewal. And today, with the decision of absolute nullity, we see that the issue is not just the outcome of the congress; the issue is who will govern the CHP and by which methods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because there was not only political competition.<br \/>\nThere was media power.<br \/>\nThere was municipal power.<br \/>\nThey had armies of social media.<br \/>\nThere was perception engineering.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The process against Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was not spontaneous; it was organized.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The same headlines every day...<br \/>\nThe same TV commentary every day...<br \/>\nThe same social media hashtags every day...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There was not an atmosphere of political criticism, but a systematic campaign of discrediting. So much so that over time, even thinking differently within the CHP became a risk. People who openly supported K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu were lynched. Delegates felt under pressure. Many names within the party preferred to remain silent. Because in the new order, obedience was rewarded, not criticism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the irony was this:<br \/>\nThose who did this were constantly using the rhetoric of \u201cfreedom\u201d, \u201cpluralism\u201d, \u201cdemocracy\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But real democracy is not a regime where only those who think like you can speak. Real democracy is a platform where different ideas within the party can be expressed without fear. In the CHP, a serious digital neighborhood pressure has emerged, especially in the last period.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You send a tweet...<br \/>\nWithin minutes, organized accounts attack.<br \/>\nYou are asking a question...<br \/>\n\u201cYou are declared \u201dworking for the government\".<br \/>\nYou question the congress process...<br \/>\n\u201cYou are labeled \u201dtraitor\".<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Over time, this structure established a new order of fear within the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And today, the decision of absolute nullity fell right in the middle of that order.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the processes that have been rendered untouchable for years in the name of \u201cchange\u201d are now open to legal scrutiny. That is why they are angry today. That's why they are aggressive. Because for the first time, a decision has come out of an area they cannot control.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now some people are saying, \u201cK\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu will divide the party by going back.\u201d This is not true. What divides the CHP is not the reckoning; it is the political understanding that avoids accountability.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Imagine a political movement:<br \/>\nHe wants corruption allegations not to be discussed.<br \/>\nHe doesn't want to be questioned about the congress shenanigans.<br \/>\nHe wants the pressures on delegates not to be discussed.<br \/>\nThen he calls it \u201cprotecting the party\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No, no, no.<br \/>\nIt is not to protect the party; it is to protect the established order.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is precisely why Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is causing so much fear in some circles today. Because with his return, areas within the CHP that have remained untouched for years will start to be discussed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And there is a very critical threshold here:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu really becomes president again, he will have two options. Either he will continue his old politics of balance and compromise with these structures... Or he will launch a massive internal purge that will go down in history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is the second option that society expects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because people no longer want slogans, they want sincerity.<br \/>\n\u201cHe wants the phrase \u201dclean politics\" to mean something.<br \/>\nHe wants to see a political morality that can also question its own wrongdoing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps this is exactly what the CHP has lost for many years:<br \/>\nA sense of moral superiority.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A structure that is harsh when criticizing the government but silent when it comes to its own wrongdoings does not inspire confidence in society. And society now sees this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The reason why Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has come to the forefront again today is not only because of the court decision. It is also because people are looking for a new institutional balance and conscience within the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because everybody realized this:<br \/>\nAn institutional backbone, not just charismatic campaigns, sustains a party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And that backbone of the CHP has been seriously eroded in recent years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>THE MOTTO OF THE NEW ERA: NO ONE IS UNTOUCHABLE<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu takes over the CHP presidency again, he will not be facing the CHP of 2010. Because the issue is no longer just a fight against the government; it is also a reckoning with the rot within the party itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And we need to be frank:<br \/>\nToday, the CHP is experiencing one of the worst crises of confidence in its history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because people are now questioning not only the corruption created by the AKP, but also the new power relations that have emerged within the opposition. The economic and political networks that have formed around municipalities, the intertwining of party administration and local power relations, media-backed factional wars... All these have seriously damaged the CHP's claim of \u201cclean politics\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That is why the main slogan of the new era has to be:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No one is untouchable.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If there is to be true purification, no one's political weight, popularity or media support should shield them from accountability.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If he is a mayor, he is a mayor...<br \/>\nIf he is a PM member, he is a PM member.<br \/>\nIf it is an influential name in the media...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Whoever violated ethical boundaries within the party, used municipal power for party engineering, exerted pressure on delegates, or was involved in corruption scandals must be held accountable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because it is precisely because of this \u201corder of untouchables\u201d that the CHP has suffered today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For years people have tried to say to the CHP:<br \/>\n\u201cYou criticize the AKP system, but you remain silent about the wrongdoings within your own ranks.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And unfortunately, over time, these criticisms started to find a response in society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today, for the CHP to get back on its feet, a change of leader is not enough. A radical reform of political ethics within the party is required. Only in this way can K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's words \u201cwe must purify\u201d take on real meaning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the most critical issues at this point is the municipality-party relationship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because in recent years, municipalities in the CHP have not only ceased to be areas of local administration; they have also turned into centers of power within the party. Allegations of influence over delegates, staff networks, economic relations, media connections... All these have created a structure that disrupts the natural functioning of the party organization.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is probably where K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu will intervene most harshly in the new period.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because CHP has to become an organization party again.<br \/>\nA structure overshadowed by municipalities ceases to be a political movement in the long run and turns into a coalition of interests.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps this is the real fear of some circles today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's return may mean not only a change of name, but also the disintegration of the comfort zones that have been established for years. Because for the first time, the following questions will be seriously raised:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Who intervened in internal party processes?<br \/>\nWho designed politics with media power?<br \/>\nWho used municipal resources for factional warfare?<br \/>\nWho turned the rhetoric of \u201cchange\u201d into a personal career project?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And there is a very critical threshold here:<br \/>\nIf the CHP fails to make this reckoning, the crisis it is facing today will not be temporary. On the contrary, it will deepen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because society now wants to see this:<br \/>\nA political will that can also clean up what is wrong within itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What was the AKP's biggest problem for years?<br \/>\nFailure to confront the corruption within itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If the CHP shows the same reflex now, it will have no moral high ground to explain to voters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has a historic opportunity right here. If he is really brave, he can put on the table all the issues that have not been discussed in the CHP for years. He can re-establish intra-party democracy. He can break the social media tutelage. He can bring the organization back to the center.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But there is a condition for this:<br \/>\nNo privileges for anyone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because true purification begins the day you can face the wrong that is closest to you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And perhaps this is exactly what the CHP needs most today:<br \/>\nA political will that can be held to account without fear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Bookmark\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>HISTORY SOMETIMES CALLS BACK THOSE MOST WANTED TO BE SILENCED<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Politics has a strange memory.<br \/>\nSome people who seem to be over for a period of time, just when everything seems to have been resolved, are back at the center of history. Because politics is shaped not only by the results of the polls, but also by who behaves how in times of crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today, the possibility of Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu returning to the CHP is precisely such a historical break.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For years they called him \u201clost\u201d, \u201cfinished\u201d, \u201cfinished\u201d, \"his time is over\".<br \/>\nIt was not enough<br \/>\nThere were organized lynch campaigns from within his own party.<br \/>\nHis family was targeted.<br \/>\nInsinuations were made about his faith.<br \/>\nThe entire bill for the political defeat fell on his shoulders alone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yet today the same people are facing a great reality:<br \/>\nIn trying to liquidate Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, they have actually destroyed the CHP's institutional memory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu was not just a chairman.<br \/>\nHe was also the last great figure of balance within the CHP, holding different segments of the party together. His silence was sometimes misunderstood, but underneath that silence there was a political reflex trying not to disintegrate the party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now the CHP is facing a much harsher reality:<br \/>\nUncontrolled factionalization.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the irony is...<br \/>\nSome of those who called K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu \u201cauthoritarian\u201d today cannot tolerate even the smallest criticism in the digital repression order they have established. Those who chanted \u201cfreedom\u201d yesterday are today trying to silence anyone who thinks differently.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is where history comes in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because society sometimes pays attention not to those who shout the loudest, but to those who hold their line even in the face of the heaviest attacks. This is also the reason why the systematic attacks against K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu backfired over time. People started to see this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Such a massive hate campaign cannot be explained only by electoral defeat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There was a much bigger reckoning at stake.<br \/>\nAbout the direction of the party...<br \/>\nIt's about the morality of the party...<br \/>\nIt's about who will determine the future of the party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And today, with the decision of absolute nullity, those suppressed debates have resurfaced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The CHP now faces a historical threshold.<br \/>\nEither they will manage this process as a mere battle for seats and close in on themselves... Or they will have a really big confrontation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu takes over again, he will no longer have to be the same K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. Because today society expects a clearer, tougher and more decisive political will.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No one has the luxury of \u201cdon't let them be offended\u201d anymore.<br \/>\nBecause the issue before the CHP is much bigger than the political careers of a few individuals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The point is this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Will the CHP really be the people's hope for clean politics, or will it surrender to new vested interests within its own ranks?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is why K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's \u201cwe must purify\u201d speech has a much greater meaning today. Because purification is not just the elimination of a few people. Purification is the reunion of politics with conscience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the most important thing in this process is this:<br \/>\nNo one is untouchable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The years of fear within the CHP, media operations, municipality-centered power struggles, allegations of fraud on delegates, social media lynchings... All of these have to be talked about now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because every unspoken wrong grows.<br \/>\nEvery decay that is covered up spreads further.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps this is precisely the main reason for the resurgence of Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu today:<br \/>\nPeople no longer want to see slogans but conscience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Millions of people in Turkey are tired.<br \/>\nHe is tired of fighting.<br \/>\nHe is tired of arrogance.<br \/>\nHe is tired of intrigues within the party.<br \/>\nHe is tired of politics that constantly tries to liquidate each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And now the CHP has a historic opportunity in front of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If this major crisis turns into a real confrontation, the CHP can regain its institutional identity. But if everything turns into a new faction taking over the old order, today's crisis will be the beginning of much bigger ruptures in the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">History is sometimes very harsh.<br \/>\nIt makes some people fall.<br \/>\nIt consumes some of them.<br \/>\nBut sometimes it also recalls those who most want to be silenced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perhaps this is exactly what is happening in the CHP today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye siyasetinde baz\u0131 kararlar vard\u0131r; sadece hukuki sonu\u00e7 do\u011furmaz, ayn\u0131 zamanda siyasi maskeleri de d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcr\u00fcr. CHP hakk\u0131nda verilen \u201cmutlak butlan\u201d karar\u0131 tam olarak b\u00f6yle bir k\u0131r\u0131lmad\u0131r. \u00c7\u00fcnk\u00fc bu karar yaln\u0131zca bir kurultay\u0131n tart\u0131\u015fmal\u0131 hale geldi\u011fini g\u00f6stermedi; ayn\u0131 zamanda y\u0131llard\u0131r \u201cde\u011fi\u015fim\u201d, \u201cumut\u201d, \u201cyenilenme\u201d ambalaj\u0131yla pazarlanan yap\u0131n\u0131n me\u015fruiyet krizini de g\u00f6zler \u00f6n\u00fcne serdi. Aylar boyunca Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\u2019na [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":286259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[15,78,288],"class_list":["post-286257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-yazarlar","tag-chp","tag-kemal-kilicdaroglu","tag-ozgur-ozel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286257","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286261,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286257\/revisions\/286261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}