They always loved the idea of the President fleeing

At a time when calculations about the presidential elections are heating up, the outburst by CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, however audacious it may have been, turned out to be a strange outburst that further damaged his own standing and wasted the stones he was carrying in his skirt. It was, quite rightly, met with great anger on the AK Parti side.

How could it not be? Telling a President who has proven time and again that he would go straight at death and frighten it, that he is "preparing to flee" is neither digestible in terms of reason, nor logic, nor even a modicum of a sense of reality. It is so obvious how strangely even his own supporters received this outburst.

Erdoğan, whom warplanes were chasing on the night of the July 15 coup, went toward death even under the gravest threat that could ever have forced or persuaded him to flee in his life; to now attribute "fleeing" to him is an absurd, curse-like remark that drives one mad even to have to answer.

LEAVING YOUR OPPONENT IN THE POSITION OF DEFENDING HIMSELF

Actually, perhaps the AK Parti side should thank Kılıçdaroğlu for displaying such a level, because nothing said by someone who has reduced the lack of judgment in his criticisms to this level can be believed or trusted. From this point on, the AK Parti side does not even need to respond to any of Kılıçdaroğlu's claims or criticisms. Nothing said by someone whose thinking is absurd can bear interpretation.

When you set about interpreting it, you suddenly find yourself on the defensive, which is probably the greatest benefit Kılıçdaroğlu hopes for: voicing nonsensical accusations with bursting self-confidence and putting the other side in a defensive position. Otherwise it is surely impossible for even him to believe the content of what he claims, but he has learned from somewhere how to speak by touching nerve endings and how, after provocative words, to force the other side into a defense.

FETÖ'S USUAL TARGETS: ENSAR FOUNDATION AND TÜRGEV

The Ensar Foundation and TÜRGEV have in fact long been FETÖ's usual targets because of their education, dormitory and student activities. Especially when the matter is something these two institutions do together in the USA, it is impossible for FETÖ not to give these institutions the evil eye. Both institutions, through their activities both inside Turkey and abroad, are becoming institutionalized through the activities of people who stand on watch in a field that FETÖ had for years turned practically into a monopoly, but which it was forced to flee and abandon after the coup.

One must remember how FETÖ, in the past too, discredited many rival charities with its disgusting propaganda.

FETÖ'S REVENGE FILES, SMOKE IN KILIÇDAROĞLU'S HEAD

It is clear that, by putting its own revenge files in the hands of Kılıçdaroğlu, in whom it invested on the political stage, it thought in its own mind it would kill two birds with one stone, but when revenge is involved, reason leaves the head too. The resources said to have been transferred to the foundation in the USA are entirely transparent, in accordance with the law, none of them are resources that cannot be accounted for, and it is not state money either. One can only respect such an activity carried out by people's donations, and thanks to Kılıçdaroğlu perhaps people have learned of this beneficial activity.

His attempt to criminalize such a thoroughly ordinary activity, which, once its details are known, has nothing to be ashamed of or feel guilty about, only costs Kılıçdaroğlu his credibility. From now on he cannot escape the cost of waving FETÖ's revenge file in his hand, nor the consequences of taking FETÖ as his guide.

THE WORD OF ONE WHOSE GUIDE IS FETÖ CANNOT GET OUT OF "FLEEING" FANTASIES

The President fleeing abroad is, from whatever angle you look at it, a typical FETÖ fantasy. FETÖ sacrificed its life for this fantasized possibility. Before July 15, the person from whom they had this fantasy voiced on television channels, interestingly by having him appear on their own channels, was again Kılıçdaroğlu.

In the first hours of the night of July 15, this fantasy had become a full-blown lust. The President was fleeing by plane to Greece, or failing that, to Germany. Later in the day it was seen that it was they themselves who carried out the flight they expected from the President, disgraced and humiliated. But in their minds a fantasy of the President fleeing abroad has always remained hanging.

The investment they are now making in the possibility of the President fleeing, we face an attempt to turn it, let alone political rivalry, even beyond friend-foe enmity, into a surreal, fantastical field

A situation that has infuriated even Cüneyt Özdemir and presents what Kılıçdaroğlu is doing as "boy who cried wolf" politics. It is as if those who fed this prompt to Kılıçdaroğlu have put too much trust in post-truth era analyses. The post-truth era assumes, to some extent, an environment in which advertisers treat people as complete fools. One strongly senses their excessive confidence that, in any case, whatever happens, he will be going.

Of course, first of all, contrary to what is supposed, this post-truth perception environment is not a new situation, nor does it offer infinite possibilities of a magic-wand kind that were unknown before.

Even if not all of them, a sufficient number of people still ask about the evidence for a claim, its truth value, its plausibility, its correspondence, its purpose, its intention.

Of course, one should still not fail to ask whether FETÖ has any other calculation besides this post-comic or tragicomic situation into which it has drawn Kılıçdaroğlu, now thoroughly warmed to the presidential race, by making him voice its own fantasy.