Baykal wasn't joking some half year ago when he said that chp is "hdp'lilesiyor". True chp members and people should distance themselves from the current chp under Kilicdaroglu and not vote for them out of protest, but i doubt it.
It's funny to see how Kılıçdaroğlu hijacked this party. It even funnier how some spineless people from CHP are adapting this new paradigm. One of the six arrows in the party ideology is Turkish nationalism. This promoted rejecting any idea of Ummah that was widespread in Turkish community and rejecting any other ethnic nationalism other than Turkish nationalism which was extremely widespread among Ottoman minorities. Thus Atatürkçülük promotes assimilation of non-Turk Ottoman minorities and CHP party ideology obeys that. (Normally Kurds were not regarded as a minority in Ottoman era because they were Islam. This model clearly doesn't hold in modern politics and Kurds are clearly an ethnic minority and should be assimilated into Turkish identity.)
HDP rejects any form of Turkish identity and wants to not only preserve the Kurdish identity but also Kurdish culture (this part fuels ethnic nationalism) as a whole. It's not like they only want to speak Turkish but to be recognized as a Kurdish minority. Let's analyze this on subtopics.
- They want to speak Kurdish
For this part AKP gave huge compromise by Kurdish TV channel and by overturning the ban on Kurdish language in educational institutions
- They want a territory inside Turkey to be recognized as Kurdistan
Federalism, AKP still showing some backbone but I have no reason to trust a party that flip flops constantly for 14 years, but still let's cross our fingers and hope for the best.
- They want to seperate Kurdish cultural memes from parent container Turkish or Anatolian culture
Ethnic nationalism, this can't be affected by government but still pre-2012 AKP provided a very nurturing intellectual environment for this. From things like Kurdish cinema, Kurdish Music, Kurdish literature, all of them both in Turkish and Kurdish, to "Kurdish Sivas Kangal dog", "Kurdish Carpet", "Kurdish Börek", "Kurdish Baklava or "Kurdish Pistachio" I've heard a lot of small cultural memes that they want to get their hands on by simply marking them with "Kurdish" prefix. By the way I see some pro-AKP writers in the media and even in here think that Barzani is our guy. Hence they legitimize the compromises given to Barzani. We're even training their soldiers like our own. Have those guys ever heard Rudaw (Barzani news agency)? Have those guys ever read anything at there? Don't worry you guys won't be so unfamiliar because of the Kurdish language since that news agency also promotes it's entire news in Turkish as well. They are even trying to "reach" their Kurdish folks, who simply doesn't know Kurdish and are in the brink of assimilation. Yeah they are not only making it harder for Turkey to assimilate non-Turkish speakers but also they influence the ones that are already assimilated in some sense.
Enjoy reading these rubbish pieces from Barzani news agency,
http://rudaw.net/turkish/kurdistan/170720151
http://rudaw.net/turkish/opinion/13102016
http://rudaw.net/turkish/culture/27102016
http://rudaw.net/turkish/culture/261020161
http://rudaw.net/turkish/culture/21102016
Within few minutes of skimming I found these pieces that contain remarks like "Southern Kurdistan" (where is the northern one you son of a b**** Rudaw editor), or "Kurdish Wedding", "Kurdish Music" and pejorative remarks like Turkey regards itself as the leader of the Middle East or Turkey wants to assimilate Kurds etc. We are watching the efforts of Barzani Kurdish nation building efforts live on Rudaw!
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All in all Turkey that Atatürk desired and CHP ideologized with six arrows not only is definitely incompatible with current HDP or AKP view, it also opposes and firmly antagonize them. Thus Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is not suitable for being the leader of CHP since he only wants to ignore Atatürkçü paradigm and numb CHP voters to anti-Turkish Nationalist HDP and AKP views.
Without Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu stepping down, CHP is clearly becoming toxic not only for CHP voters but also for national security as well. If CHP comes to the point of AKP or HDP in this nation building argument only MHP will be left to support Turkish Nationalism ideal in Anatolia which is somewhat Turkifying every single citizen in Turkish borders. That's not enough to preserve this country as a whole with a proper identity!
As far as I know the sex casette scandal of Deniz Baykal was a huge turning point in Turkish history. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was planted to CHP's leader position as a trojan horse to hijack the party and numb the opposition. Today government should inquire this sex casette scandal and instead of snatching a few police officers they should completely demystify who really Kılıçdaroğlu is. And don't get me wrong I don't want a 3rd class A Haber flamebait news piece. I'm talking about actual proofs to what happened. Only that will maybe influence the mainstream CHP delegates and call for a convention.