What Will Become of the CHP?

CHP is the founding party of this country. We all know this.

In fact, why was there a party at the founding? 

Don't ask me how so, party comes from the English word part, which translates as part, or the slices of the cake can also be defined as part. So a party has to defend one view. Another party will defend another view. 

In this sense, the idea of a one-party system seems absurd to me.

In short, if you are a constituent organization, you are expected to be an organization that covers the whole society. When you define yourself as a party, you are expected to have at least one other party. 

This is the logical way of looking at it from my point of view.

Of course, there is also the heavy burden of some practices from the founding period on today's CHP. 

On the one hand there is the pride of being the founding party of the country, on the other hand there is the heavy burden of some decisions taken by the founding will to transform society into a modern society.

What are these decisions?

First and foremost, I think we can count the abolition of the sultanate and its replacement by the republic.

But isn't the republic the rule of the nation instead of a family? What's wrong with that?

For me, of course, there is nothing wrong with the republic, but I wonder if everyone thinks like me. 

Or, to put the question in terms of the founding days, when Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha brought up this issue, did everyone think the same as him?

Was there no one who thought otherwise?

Is there anyone who is dissatisfied with the republic today?

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We can say the same thing about the abolition of the Caliphate.

I think that even today there are still many people who are still not able to digest this issue.

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As if the abolition of the Caliphate was not enough, they also closed down the dervish lodges and lodges! 

So today's sects or congregations are actually still illegal organizations.

Do you think everyone has digested this?

If they had, would we be able to talk about sects or congregations today?

On top of that, they even made the call to prayer in Turkish! Alas, religion is getting out of hand! Fortunately, the mistake was quickly reversed during the time of the Democrat Party. Doesn't it say in the Koran that the call to prayer shall be recited in Arabic?

Yes, it does not say that, but nevertheless, if the adhan is recited in Turkish, religion will be lost!

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And is that all there is to it?

Of course not, is that all? There are still two drunkards, then they made mosques into stables, we gave islands in Lausanne, Lausanne is a defeat, there are even secret clauses.

Then there are the queues, the tube queue, the gasoline queue and other queues, even buying bread with ration cards.

Is it over?

Is it over? There is still the headscarf, the civil code, secularism, the CeHaPe mentality.

There is even Hagia Sophia, what does it mean to make Hagia Sophia a museum? This alone is reason enough for some to hold a grudge.

Then there are the coups, there are the wrong practices during the coups, there is February 28, there is the e-missile.

Then there are the party closures, the declaration of the AK Party as the focus of the reactionary movement, and then there is the 365 oddity in the presidential elections.

Even though many of these issues have nothing to do with today's CHP, when it says "I am the founding party", all these issues become a burden on its shoulders.

Even if you bring Mr. Erdoğan back into politics through the re-run of the Siirt elections, even though he was once told that he couldn't even be muhtar, nothing changes. In the end, no matter how positive your approach, you will always be overshadowed by the never forgotten CeHaPe mentality.

This is another way of looking at it.

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Let's talk about the right-left issue, or more precisely the CHP as a left party.

At first the CHP was only left, then it became the left of center, that is, it moved closer to the center. 

Then it became the democratic left, they said let's embellish the left with a little democracy.

Then it became a social democrat, they said let's add some social state sauce.

Nowadays, it is under the great effort and influence of Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu to become a little to the right of the left of center. In other words, it wants to move closer to the center.

Why is the CHP considered a leftist party? What is the reason for a party to be considered left?

I think the late İsmet İnönü was the first to say that the CHP was a leftist party. In 1965, he said this in an interview with the late Abdi İpekçi.

Until then, the CHP was both a republican and a populist party.

Normally, the main principle of left-wing parties around the world is to stand on the side of labor in the labor-capital conflict.

But in this case a paradox emerges. Normally, if we look at the majority of votes, the right, that is, those who are in favor of capital, are more numerous, but if we look at those who spend labor, there are more laborers than capitalists.

If the left parties are on the side of labor, why don't the working people vote for left parties?

Naturally, since the CHP has not been in power alone since almost 1950, isn't there something wrong?

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From here we come to the secrets of becoming one with the people.

As I wrote at the beginning, especially Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk worked hard to transform this nation until his last moment and to make the modern Republic of Turkey a respected nation among the states of the world.

Yes, Atatürk was able to earn a very respectable place in the eyes of this nation as the heroic commander of the War of Independence and by preventing the loss of freedom that was at risk.

However, perhaps some people did not understand what he did for this cause very well, or there were those who objected to these revolutions even as he was making them.

Nevertheless, in addition to his prestige, the burden of suffering for some of his practices, which were considered mistakes by some, fell on those who ruled the country after him.

Some of the practices of the late İsmet İnönü during the Second World War, which were considered cruel to the people, added salt and pepper to this burden.

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I think the real problem is that people don't know what they want.

Especially with the polarizing rhetoric and actions of the current government, we now have a sociology of society that is really split down the middle.

Some of the heartbreaks within the society from these founding years have started to surface more and more with the incitement of the government.

No matter how much you explain, no matter how much you say this is why it was done this way, no matter how much you say that was the reason, people still don't understand when they don't want to understand and they don't go to the polls to vote for CHP.

The result?

The result was that we were stuck at 25%, a little above, a little below, but those who have adopted the CeHaPe mentality are more or less like this.

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Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu is aware of this situation and has been advocating for widening this spectrum since he became the party leader.

He is not wrong, but I think the methods are wrong.

Even the rhetoric of making amends in the most sincere way did not work because the implementation was wrong.

I will be frank, the religious elites who have been nominated as deputies from the party for years in order to reach out to religious voters did not work either. 

Moreover, alliances with new parties that broke away from the Ak Parti, including the Saadet Party, did not work either.

Even the alliance with the Democrat Party of today, as if it was the Democrat Party of its time, did not yield anything.

Neither the favors done to the IYI Party at the time of its establishment helped, nor the efforts of the mayors who were included in the last minute.

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So where is the problem?

It was thought that there was such a broad alliance that this time it was a done deal. 

Even the polling firms, at least the majority of them, were showing Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu ahead until the last minute.

 - Mr. Erdoğan is an election expert!

 - Montage videos were shown during the campaign

 - HDP unity scared people

 - The government has the advantage of using state facilities

 - The government has also taken over the media and the press 

 - People in rural areas only watch TRT 

Is that it?

Do you think these were the reasons why the election was lost?

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I actually wrote about the key issue at the beginning. It is necessary to find the reason why a leftist party cannot get the votes of the working people, who are the majority, as in every country.

To say that rural people watch TRT, that's why they didn't vote for us should be the last thing to say. Even such a word should not be said.

- Where are your cadres to explain your party views to people?

 - Where are your cadres to go door to door?

 - I have written so much, I even asked you to show your solutions visually about the earthquake. Where are your cadres who can do such things?

 - You can't even put enough party representatives in the ballot boxes, I thought you had taken care of this issue?

In short, there are many things to say, but the article would be too long. 

I think the CHP should find a way to communicate with the people in a way befitting its name and convince people that it is the real hope for the future of this nation without deviating from the principles of the republic.

We are back to the issue of faith, aren't we?

How is it that a party representing capital can drag those who work hard after it, isn't that strange?

Yes, the CHP must change, and it must change completely, not by saying I am a leftist party, but by saying I am the party of the people, I am the defender of the republic. 

As for the burdens on its back, I don't know whether it will do one-on-one marking or talk to people in village cafes, but it is up to the party volunteers or organizations to tell the truth to everyone.

In any case, there is a lot to do and there is very little time left before the next elections.

It seems to me that at least those who are used to the culture of taqiyya should be weeded out from the party as soon as possible and a restructuring as it should be is urgently needed.

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