{"id":286283,"date":"2026-05-29T19:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=286283"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:50:18","slug":"the-will-of-the-nation-or-pr-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/the-will-of-the-nation-or-pr-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWILL OF THE PEOPLE\u201d OR PR OPERATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In recent years, one of the most used concepts within the CHP has been \u201cwill\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First it was called \u201cthe will for change\u201d.<br \/>\nThen the \u201cwill of the organization\u201d...<br \/>\nThen \u201cthe will of 2 million members\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It was not enough.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The political campaigns around Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu did not stop with CHP members this time;<br \/>\n\u201cThe rhetoric of \u201d15.5 million votes\u201c, \u201d25 million signatures\u201c, \u201dthe nation has risen up\" was circulated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And what was the result?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Apart from the social media show, there has been no legal outcome,<br \/>\nwhat an institutional response has emerged,<br \/>\nnor a real mechanism to change the political system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because modern states are not based on slogans;<br \/>\ngoverned by law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Neither do political parties with hashtags;<br \/>\nsurvives by statute.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No PR organization,<br \/>\nno digital campaign,<br \/>\nno signature show,<br \/>\ncannot be substituted for law and institutional mechanisms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But certain circles of the CHP have been doing the opposite for a long time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perception instead of real politics,<br \/>\nshowcase instead of institutionalization,<br \/>\nThey replace the organization with social media mobilization.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That's where the problem starts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because structures that turn politics into a constant digital excitement lose touch with reality over time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And in the end, a contradiction emerges:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Why is the will of two million members so precious today?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If the will of the membership was so sacred;<br \/>\nWhy wasn't there a primary election in the selection of mayoral candidates?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Why wasn't the organization consulted?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Why were decisions shaped among narrow cadres?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Was \u00d6zkan Yal\u0131m forgotten when he was appointed?<br \/>\nWas democracy suspended when B\u00f6cek was made a candidate?<br \/>\nIn Hasbi...<br \/>\nTanju...<br \/>\nIn Reza...<br \/>\nAnd in many other controversial choices, did the will of the organization not come to mind?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On that day, the only thing left for the members to do was to put up posters.<br \/>\nIt fell to receive SMS.<br \/>\nThe dues have fallen.<br \/>\nIt fell to applause.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Narrow political circles made the decisions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now, when it comes to the battle for seats, the discourse of \u201cthe will of 2 million members\u201d is suddenly sanctified,<br \/>\nIt looks more like a reflex to protect the power space than democratic sensitivity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because what is being defended here is not a principle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Position.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is not about democracy;<br \/>\nwho will control the sphere of power.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And that is precisely why the CHP's current crisis is not an ordinary internal debate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the crisis;<br \/>\nPR politics replacing the organization,<br \/>\nsocial media hysteria replacing institutionalism,<br \/>\nis the result of a long transformation in which political reason has been replaced by slogan apparatuses.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>IS THE CHP GOING LEFT, OR IS A NEW ANAP BEING BUILT?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The biggest illusion of today's transformation within the CHP is this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Some people still think this is an \u201cintra-left struggle\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But there is not even a real ideological fight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No one is discussing nationalism.<br \/>\nNo one is talking about the production economy.<br \/>\nNobody is raising labor politics.<br \/>\nNo one is producing a new social democratic program against income inequality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And yet we constantly hear slogans of \u201cchange\u201d, \u201cinnovation\u201d, \u201cnew politics\u201d, \u201csocial transformation\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So what is really changing?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is not the ideology that has changed;<br \/>\nthe character of the party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because when the political model emerging within the CHP today is carefully analyzed, it is not a social democratic transformation,<br \/>\ncenter-right restoration is emerging.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Let's say it more clearly:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A populist, statist, publicist social democratic line in the classical sense cannot emerge from the structure centered on Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It would be a new generation of ANAP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because there is now more showcase politics than ideological depth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Leftism is on the signboard.<br \/>\nSocial democracy is written on posters.<br \/>\nBut the political reflex circulating inside belongs elsewhere.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Recruited cadres from the right...<br \/>\nGrowing power networks with municipal resources...<br \/>\nPR companies<br \/>\nImage engineering<br \/>\nLiberal market language...<br \/>\nMunicipality relations managed by a conglomerate mentality...<br \/>\nAnd career politics that sees ideology as a \u201cburden\u201d...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When all this comes together, it is not a populist transformation;<br \/>\nA new power organization is emerging, packaged in a center-right aesthetic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This was the logic behind the rise of the ANAP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To appear above ideologies...<br \/>\nTo be able to play to all audiences at the same time...<br \/>\nCreating a showcase with no political identity but high media power...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The atmosphere within the CHP today increasingly resembles this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ideology is retreating,<br \/>\ncommunication strategy stands out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The organization is retreating,<br \/>\nmunicipality-centered power relations are growing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The political struggle is retreating,<br \/>\nPR operations are becoming decisive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And most importantly:<br \/>\nThe historical weight of the Republican People's Party is increasingly being reduced to the logic of \u201cbrand management\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That is why today's crisis in the CHP is not just a name war.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is also a historical break in what the soul of the party will be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">CHP;<br \/>\npublicist,<br \/>\npopulist,<br \/>\nwith the seriousness of a state,<br \/>\nwill it remain a social democratic party with a strong organizational culture?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Or clustered around metropolitan municipalities,<br \/>\nGoverned by the language of PR,<br \/>\nits ideological backbone is weak,<br \/>\nwill it evolve into a new generation of center-right organization determined by personal career networks?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the question that needs to be discussed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because a significant part of the society now feels this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There is more than a movement of ideas,<br \/>\nthere is power management.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">People are not just looking for a structure to win elections.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">At the same time, they want to see a political mind that inspires confidence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But the image emerging in certain sections of the CHP produces the opposite:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The controversy of allegations of fraud...<br \/>\nRelationships of interest<br \/>\nMunicipal lobbies<br \/>\nSocial media operations...<br \/>\nAnd cliques constantly trying to liquidate each other...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This picture does not give hope to the people,<br \/>\ninsecurity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And perhaps the most painful part is this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">An important part of what is being presented as \u201cchange\u201d today,<br \/>\nnot a change of mindset;<br \/>\njust a change of personnel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>THE POLITICS OF PRODUCING \u201cTRAITORS\u201d AND LYNCHING IN CHP<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the biggest problems of the CHP today is not only the organizational crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">At the same time, the party has been plunged into a serious crisis of political reason.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because structures that cannot produce ideas start to produce enemies over time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Those who cannot produce a political program produce slogans.<br \/>\nThose who cannot create an institutional culture create a lynch culture.<br \/>\nThose who cannot establish a basis for democratic debate constantly invent new \u201ctraitors\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is exactly the atmosphere that has developed within the CHP in recent years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Those whom they could not praise yesterday, today they declare as \u201ctraitors\u201d.<br \/>\nWhat they applauded yesterday, today they lynch on social media.<br \/>\nWhat they carried on their shoulders yesterday, today they target with discrediting operations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And they think this is politics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A significant part of those shouting \u201cK\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is a traitor\u201d today,<br \/>\ntomorrow he will shout \u201cTraitor Ozgur\u201d with the same anger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the principle is not the issue here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Neither is loyalty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It's all about the balance of power.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Whoever loses the force field,<br \/>\nThe next day he is targeted with the label of \u201cbetrayal\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is why the culture of healthy political debate is gradually disappearing within the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is being replaced by social media hysteria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Troll order is coming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">PR apparatus is coming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Slogan politicians are coming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the result is a frightening mental desertification.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today many people in the party are afraid to speak out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because with the slightest criticism, he risks being labeled as an \u201cAKP supporter\u201d, a \u201cpalace-ist\u201d, a \u201ccollaborator\u201d or a \u201ctraitor\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This language does not only silence people;<br \/>\nit also destroys the party's capacity to think.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because politics is done with the mind,<br \/>\nnot herd psychology.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But in certain circles of the CHP, the culture of digital shouting has become dominant instead of generating ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The task of a group of slogan apparatuses is no longer to think,<br \/>\ninstant goal setting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Who will be targeted that day?<br \/>\nWho will be lynched?<br \/>\nWho will be declared a \u201ctraitor to the cause\u201d?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All energy is based on this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The historical strength of the Republican People's Party was quite the opposite.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">CHP was once the biggest political school in Turkey.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Generating ideas<br \/>\nDiscussing the state model...<br \/>\nSpeaking on the economy.<br \/>\nDeveloping a community project...<br \/>\nIt was a center of intellectual weight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today there are many debates,<br \/>\n\u201cwho's going to liquidate who?\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the center of politics has ceased to be ideas;<br \/>\nIt became a war of position.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And as a natural consequence, the party is getting smaller and smaller.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because society sees this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There is no discussion of a grand vision for the future of the country.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But there is a huge internal power struggle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is why people are angry with the CHP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because citizens are thinkers, not shouters,<br \/>\nproducing solutions, not insults,<br \/>\nThey want to see a reassuring opposition, not a lynching one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But most of the time the opposite is the case:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Troll armies<br \/>\nCoordinated attacks<br \/>\nPR operations<br \/>\nAnd a digital political culture constantly looking for new \u201ctraitors\u201d...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Let's be clear:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If a party is always looking for traitors,<br \/>\nthere is no more idea generation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because strong political movements do not create enemies for themselves,<br \/>\nby generating ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is exactly what the CHP needs most today:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To get out of the lynch culture and return to political reason.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>FRAUD, FEAR AND \u201cABSOLUTE NULLITY\u201d: TALKING ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES AND HIDING THE CAUSES<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today, as the crisis within the CHP is being discussed, everyone is focusing on the outcome.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Court ruling<br \/>\nOn the congress debate...<br \/>\nImages in front of the headquarters...<br \/>\nSlogans<br \/>\nTo their challenge<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But no one is asking the question:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Why did the CHP become like this?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the decision of \u201cabsolute nullity\u201d did not fall from the sky.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This table,<br \/>\nis the natural result of years of accumulated political decay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The allegations that have surfaced...<br \/>\nPower networks around municipalities...<br \/>\nThe controversy of allegations of fraud...<br \/>\nTender relations<br \/>\nThe new political order growing on the axis of headquarters-municipalities...<br \/>\nAnd the deepening atmosphere of fear within the party...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All this has been growing for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But every criticism was suppressed as \u201ctreason\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Whoever spoke was silenced.<br \/>\nWhoever questioned them was targeted.<br \/>\nWhoever voiced discomfort was labeled either an \u201cAKP supporter\u201d or a \u201cpalace man\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As a result, the CHP lost its internal control mechanism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And every unchecked structure produces its own crisis over time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is exactly what is happening today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because it is no longer just about political failure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A significant part of the society began to distrust some CHP cadres.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ali is associated with another sham...<br \/>\nVeli comes up with another network of relationships.<br \/>\nMuhittin and his entourage are discussed in separate files.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But then they still try to market \u201cmorality\u201d, \u201cclean politics\u201d, \u201cchange\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One inevitably asks the question:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What is the CHP doing with people whose names are constantly associated with suspicion, interest relations and municipal rents?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Is this really what the Republican People's Party was founded for?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because people who vote for the CHP do not want to support the opposition just because they are angry with the government.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">They also want to trust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">They want to see a seriousness that can run a state.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But the picture that has emerged in recent years produces the opposite feeling in many people:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">They cannot even establish a healthy structure within themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is precisely this crisis of trust that is the ground for the \u201cabsolute nullity\u201d debate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So it is not only a legal issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is also a moral and political crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And perhaps for the first time in CHP history,<br \/>\nThe possibility has arisen for some structures within the party to be held accountable both politically, legally and conscientiously.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the main reason for today's panic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because it is not only about fear of seats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is also the fear of the truth that might be revealed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That is why there is a constant language of agitation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The rhetoric of \u201ccoup\u201d, \u201ctutelage\u201d, \u201cwe will not surrender the party\u201d is constantly being circulated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the more the crisis is magnified,<br \/>\nthe more the possibility of accountability is pushed to the background.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But the reality is quite the opposite:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For the CHP to stand up again, it must first confront its own internal decay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because absolute nullity is not the reason;<br \/>\nis the result.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Main reason,<br \/>\nis the lack of supervision that has been growing for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Main reason,<br \/>\nis the replacement of organization by networks of power.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Main reason,<br \/>\nis that the party is being governed by PR operations instead of political reason.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And the real reason,<br \/>\nIt is the erosion of the institutional seriousness of the Republican People's Party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So what needs to be done today is not sloganeering;<br \/>\nis to be able to courageously question the decay that produced that result.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because without purification there can be no re-establishment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>NO REBIRTH WITHOUT PURIFICATION<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today's crisis within the CHP is only a court decision,<br \/>\na congress debate<br \/>\nor to read it as a personal showdown would be a big mistake.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the issue is bigger than individuals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Main issue;<br \/>\nThe political character with which the Republican People's Party will continue on its path.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We are at a crossroads.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What about CHP?;<br \/>\nmunicipality-centered power networks,<br \/>\nPR politics,<br \/>\nof personal career coalitions,<br \/>\nof the controversy,<br \/>\nand a new generation with a weakened ideological backbone will drift further under the influence of center-rightism...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Or it will go through a painful but historical purification process and return to its founding settings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is precisely why it would be incomplete to look at the issue of \u201cabsolute nullity\u201d today as a purely technical-legal debate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because absolute nullity is not a reason;<br \/>\nis a consequence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Years of growing unaccountability,<br \/>\ndisorganization,<br \/>\nmunicipality-centered power politics,<br \/>\na culture of internal party purges,<br \/>\nthe controversy surrounding the<br \/>\nand is the natural consequence of a loss of institutional wisdom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That is why what needs to be done today is not slogan politics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What social media hysteria...<br \/>\nWhat digital heroism...<br \/>\nNor is it constantly producing new \u201ctraitors\u201d...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What the CHP needs;<br \/>\nis to reproduce seriousness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is to re-institutionalize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is about rebuilding trust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And most importantly:<br \/>\nis to regenerate a political backbone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The reason why many people are repositioning themselves around Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu today is not just loyalty to one person.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is also an expression of discontent with the drift that has been growing for years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because despite all the criticism K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu faced,<br \/>\nCHP's institutional memory,<br \/>\nstate seriousness,<br \/>\norganizational culture<br \/>\nand is seen as one of the last great thresholds representing party discipline.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The support around him,<br \/>\nrather than a \u201cworship of the leader\u201d;<br \/>\nCHP is completely municipalized,<br \/>\nIt's PRized,<br \/>\nIt is a reflex against its transformation into a structure that has lost its ideological backbone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Of course K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu can also be criticized.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Their mistakes can also be discussed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But today the issue has gone beyond individuals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because that is what is being discussed now,<br \/>\nWhether the CHP will be a party of ideas in the future,<br \/>\nor whether it will turn into a gigantic power organization clustered only around metropolitan municipalities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And a significant part of society is seriously uncomfortable with the second possibility.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That's why today's crisis,<br \/>\nIt has also revealed the necessity for a historical purification.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because sometimes it is a political movement,<br \/>\nmust first confront the rot within itself in order to move on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is painful.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is corrosive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is offensive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But it is inevitable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What needs to be done today;<br \/>\n\u201cwho's going to beat who?\u201d,<br \/>\nIt is a major political restoration that will reunite the CHP with its founding values.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Re-establishment of the primary election mechanism...<br \/>\nRe-strengthening the organization...<br \/>\nMaking municipal-capital relations transparent...<br \/>\nThe operation of internal party control mechanisms...<br \/>\nReturning to a merit-based staffing approach...<br \/>\nAnd the CHP's reorientation to a populist, publicist and state-serious line...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the real solution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the Republican People's Party is not an ordinary political party.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This party,<br \/>\nIt is the founding political backbone of the Republic of Turkey.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And constituent parties are not just for winning elections,<br \/>\nstate seriousness,<br \/>\nsocial trust<br \/>\nand to uphold political morality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is exactly what is needed today:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The thinker, not the shouter,<br \/>\nproducing, not lynching,<br \/>\nNot PR but politics,<br \/>\nA CHP that carries the Republic, not personal careers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because without purification there is no rebirth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son y\u0131llarda CHP i\u00e7inde en \u00e7ok kullan\u0131lan kavramlardan biri \u201cirade\u201d oldu. \u00d6nce \u201cde\u011fi\u015fim iradesi\u201d dendi. Sonra \u201c\u00f6rg\u00fct iradesi\u201d\u2026 Ard\u0131ndan \u201c2 milyon \u00fcyenin iradesi\u201d\u2026 Yetmedi. Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu etraf\u0131nda y\u00fcr\u00fct\u00fclen siyasi kampanyalarda bu kez CHP \u00fcyeleriyle de yetinilmedi; \u201c15,5 milyon oy\u201d, \u201c25 milyon imza\u201d, \u201cmillet aya\u011fa kalkt\u0131\u201d s\u00f6ylemleri dola\u015f\u0131ma sokuldu. Peki sonu\u00e7 ne oldu? 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