He is a blood-sucking political Frankenstein who feeds on conflicts and fighting. He is a tyrant devoid of the ability to empathize. He is arrogant and despises his people, exploiting and belittling their values. He is not a socialist, a democrat, a republican or a secularist according to the universal meaning of these words. He is a murderer of the law. He is a traitor. He is a bomb ready to blow away all reconciliation efforts within society. He is someone blinded by his ambition. He is Deniz Baykal, CHP’s leader. The combination of all these negative features in one single person can not possibly be a God-given blessing. In order for anyone to carry all of this on their back they must exert an incredible amount of effort. It is, on the other hand, very obvious that Baykal has been quite successful in the efforts he has perpetuated in his 70 years.
The only real reason behind the unsubstantiated uncertainty, vagueness and fears of “where we are going,” artificially instilled at a time when Turkey had reached stability and started breaking record after record through rapid growth and embracing the world, is definitely Baykal. Therefore whenever I remember him these days, what comes to mind are the sadist feudal lords of the Middle Ages who would extract tyrannical pleasure and joy from their people’s pains and troubles. This is such a feudal lord, who casts a blight on my country like a hellish nightmare.
Who is this Baykal? What does he represent in Turkish politics? What on earth has he achieved that will be remembered by the nation? What sort of heritage or legacy has he left so far? Will there ever be anyone who will remember anything positive about him? I seriously doubt this.
At the same time, I shouldn’t be totally unfair toward him. Baykal, with his perfect craftsmanship in creating artificial crises, his “factionalism” that focuses on gaining more and more power by “divide et impera” and with his love of goal-tending secret plans, is the bluntest proof that a politician can still stand bolt upright after decades in Turkey without having achieved anything at all. Woe unto the Turkish politics that has given him innumerous opportunities!
Go out to the street today and sound out people about Baykal. Ask them what the first thing that comes to their mind about Baykal is. Believe me, they will not remember anything positive he has achieved for the country’s good because Baykal is a bizarre careerist who feeds on pain, fighting and darkness, and who has devoted his whole being to deconstruct rather than construct and to break rather than repair, so much so that at any moment you can catch him creating crises, instability and darkness for the country instead of generating hopeful ideas and thoughts that could open up the country’s road to development.
Nobody but Baykal could manage to drag the entire country into chaos over the possible election of a gentleman like Abdullah Gül, who is followed by the world with deep appreciation and sympathy, who would assist Turkey in making a quantum leap forward and help it get off the ground. Anyone else would think about the country’s interests, the nation’s peace and welfare, the children’s future and eventually they would dismiss this treacherous idea. But he did not! The country’s stable growth and advancement must have hurt him so badly that he preferred to gain “a fresher” life in his nightmarish darkness by sparking artificial crises and precipitating conflicts. And he succeeded in his attempts because this is his job.
As if the crisis he sparked were not enough, he took the public will to the court. What’s more, he even tried to repress the top court of Turkey by saying, “If the court makes a decision against the 367 [quorum]” then a crisis will be inevitable in the country.
Now let’s ask with all sincerity: What do you want from this nation Mr. Baykal? Do you want to become prime minister or president with the help of “the bayonets and barrels,” a role, as you have understood well, which you would never reach through democratic ways? If this is your wish, I’m sorry to tell you that you chose the wrong career. You should have entered the military instead of politics. Maybe you would have already become a general long before you reached 70, staged a coup d’état and perhaps you’d have even assumed the post of prime minister or president, which you so badly desire.
Now it is obvious that you are even fond of the possibility of a military coup. But ironically, what falls on you is not taking action, since you are not in an authorized position, but only sycophancy. Such an embarrassing situation for you, isn’t it?
Neither Turkey nor the Turkish nation deserves fascists like you, even in the opposition.
