Will Kılıçdaroğlu's absurd politics keep Erdoğan occupied?

The serious disproportion and inappropriateness between the role that Turkey, under the leadership of President Erdoğan, plays in today's world and the issues it is busy with, or forced to be busy with, in domestic politics has begun to stand out plainly. Until now no one has been able to discuss so openly the current world system, which is falling apart from every side with its injustice and its distortions.

Discuss is hardly the word: he practically challenged the system at the very center of the UN, and he did not leave this stance at the level of a speech or two but institutionalized it as Turkey's national posture and policy. Despite this, he became a leader who increased his power within the system and was able to raise his voice still higher. Today, whenever Turkey enters the stage in any dispute in the Middle East, all the balances change and everyone has to reposition themselves according to Turkey.

With Turkey's stepping in in Qatar, someone's cooked meal was, so to speak, watered down.

In the Mediterranean, a colonial division that had been carried out for nearly decades while ignoring Turkey was drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean with Turkey's agreement with Libya. Although everyone shouted and screamed at first, they have now realized that one cannot get a cheese ship moving on words alone, and they are busy revising their calculations according to Turkey.

In Syria, with the Euphrates Shield, Olive Branch and then Peace Spring operations, the sixty-year plans that some countries were pursuing for the region have been thrown in the trash. Turkey is now putting its weight back in Syria and is making Russia, the USA, the EU, Iran and the Gulf countries reweigh all of theirs. In the end, in Syria what Turkey says will happen, because, as everywhere, Turkey is acting with exceedingly just and strong theses. Relying on this rightfulness, whether with its soft power or, when necessary, by showing its armed power, it gets its theses accepted, and each time it increases its weight, power and influence further.

It takes courage to oppose a plan promoted as Israel's century-old plan, which has behind it the support of the USA, of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, of Egypt and Bahrain, and of many EU countries. Of course courage alone is not enough; one also needs the power of being right and a material basis that can stand behind what one says. Turkey had all of them. The Arab countries have this material wealth and this power too, but they also have a servility that is out of proportion to their power. Those whose souls have been enslaved and colonized would not think of fleeing even if you opened the dungeon doors before them. That is why the "Deal of the Century" actually draws its greatest strength not from those who defend it but from the cowardice and servility of those who ought to oppose it, of course unless, in addition, they also have an ill intent that believes in it...

Only Erdoğan showed the courage to oppose this plan, which was regarded as a complete fait accompli. With his stance, first and foremost the Arab League countries that supported the plan, and many countries, had to follow this attitude. This in fact shows that Erdoğan has now reached an influence that can point out and set norms in world politics.

His stance and influence are so widely accepted that in the countries he visits he is hosted with a very special reception and warm welcome. The words Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed to him during his latest visit to Pakistan, the sentences to the effect that if he ran in elections in Pakistan he would be elected alone with a high vote, express a reality beyond flattery.

And yet, the domestic politics of Turkey, which has reached this weight on the world political stage, unfortunately does not reflect the same level, the same quality. From the opposition of a country that has reached this power, that has become the hope of the world's oppressed and the key to the solution of the world's problems, one would have expected a correspondingly fitting stance.

Of course, as an opposition it is not expected in any way to approve everything the government says; it is even expected to raise its fiercest objections on many issues it finds wrong. But when one looks at the subjects it brings to the agenda, the CHP opposition behaves like a structure that has all but severed its ties with the people and nation of Turkey.

What country's opposition party could the CHP be, which empathizes with nearly all of Turkey's adversaries on the world political stage and stands in solidarity with them against the government? From Assad to Haftar, from Sisi to the YPG, Kılıçdaroğlu has an affection for everyone with whom Turkey has come into conflict in recent years. He behaves as if the source of the conflict with all these names were not their murderousness, their dictatorship, their hostility toward their own peoples with their frenzied lust for power, but rather Erdoğan's quarrelsomeness. By doing so he severs his ties with the nation more with each passing day.

Of course the disproportion and inappropriateness between foreign and domestic politics is not limited to this. The coup rumors that have recently come to the agenda, and the debate about FETÖ's political wing, are among the most striking examples of this inappropriateness.

Why, for instance, does Kılıçdaroğlu, who, the more it is probed, will stand out most as the person to be seen as FETÖ's political wing, keep this subject on the agenda?

Don't you think there is an illogicality, an absurd comedy even there?

The absurd comedy is like an invitation to everyone, in case anyone has not heard, to take a good look at Kılıçdaroğlu's relationship with FETÖ and to memorize it. What a case of the thief shouting "thief"!

These are of course attempts to draw Erdoğan, who displays an unparalleled performance and quality in world politics, into absurd political chatter and to waste his time and energy. Can we wear down, by such means, an Erdoğan whom you could not bring down and could not defeat?

It is not a bad calculation at all from their point of view, but it is again based on a wrong calculation about Erdoğan. Why? Let them find that out too.