The people of my country haven't paid much attention to 'absolute nullity'

Turkey is at one of the most critical political thresholds in the history of the republic.

The concern of the palace regime is not just to suppress the opposition. It is also to reshape the reflexes of society.

The real danger lies here.

We issued a warning as we concluded our article last Thursday.

The operations targeting the CHP were not aimed solely at the party management, that is, the "top." The real target was the psychological bond the public has established with the opposition.

Let us be clearer; the goal goes far beyond transforming the CHP; it is to make the idea of opposition in Turkey ordinary, ineffective, and eventually meaningless.

That is why we specifically wrote this sentence:

“If the CHP does not regain a republican backbone, what is happening today will not remain just an intra-party problem; it will go down in history as the most critical turning point in the process of de-oppositioning the system.”

We also concluded with this question:

“Turkey is truly at a very dangerous crossroads. But who, and to what extent, is aware of this?”

Before the ink on the article had dried, the latest research from KONDA fell into my lap. It appears that the answer to the question we asked is more severe than we thought.

The research was conducted between May 23-26 with 1,514 people in 67 provinces. They asked citizens about the "absolute nullity" debates regarding the CHP congress.

52 percent of voters found the court's decision wrong. 39 percent said "definitely wrong," while 13 percent just said "wrong."

Let us pay attention to the rates of the "definitely wrong" and "wrong" answers!

60 percent of the participants said that the ongoing political tension would make the economy even worse.

At first glance, the picture might seem encouraging for the opposition.

"So, society sees the injustice, the lawlessness, the unfairness."

This is one side of the coin. But what about the other side?

That is where the real issue lies!

Because there is another result of the research that was not carried to the headlines and not discussed much on screens, which is perhaps the main indicator of the social decay Turkey is being dragged into.

45 percent of the participants…

Yes, you read that right.

Almost half have never heard of the lawsuit regarding the CHP congress, the "absolute nullity" debate, that is, such a critical process that could directly determine the future of the main opposition party.

It is like a joke.

Political engineering is being carried out in Ankara.

The opposition is being designed by the judiciary.

Turkey's political balances are being re-established.

Operations are being conducted on the CHP, and so on...

In short, the funeral prayer is being read for the soul of the democracy that has only crumbs left!

But almost half of the country is not aware of this, or does not want to be.

Life goes on.

The struggle for livelihood, credit card debt, price tags on market shelves...

Some have already mentally checked out of the game, saying, "What do I care about politics?"

We can see the fracture on the society-politics axis here.

The crowd Özgür Özel gathered at Güvenpark is certainly very important and should not be underestimated. However, the issue is not just the number of people taking to the squares.

There is a much bigger truth on the invisible side of the picture:

A large segment of this society no longer produces political reflexes.

Or rather, it cannot produce them.

KONDA described this picture in diplomatic language as follows:

“It is observed that the discussion is not distributed equally among all segments of society.”

Technically, it may be true. But it is not explanatory.

Because there is no ordinary "lack of information" here; there is a massive project that has been built step by step for years.

It must be admitted that the government is extremely successful in this regard.

Look closely, major fractures in Turkey now occur during periods when the public's attention is diverted.

The economic crisis is deepening.

The legal system is becoming controversial.

The opposition is being suppressed.

The judiciary is being politicized.

But at that very moment, they put other agendas in front of the country. After all, they have the fed media and paid trolls at their disposal. They can manipulate the agenda as they wish.

Sometimes a football debate.

Sometimes tabloid news, drug raids on celebrities, and so on.

Sometimes social media lynchings.

Sometimes "extended holiday" operations...

Indeed, the same thing happened during this process.

Before the critical decision expected from the court, the holiday was extended to 9 days with administrative leave. For millions crushed under economic fatigue, this turned into a psychological escape corridor.

People packed their bags.

They rushed to the bus terminals.

They went to the coasts.

They hit the roads to their hometowns.

Meanwhile, Turkey was passing through the threshold of a historically significant political intervention.

Politics remained behind the bus windows.

Judicial interventions became invisible among the holiday suitcases.

The government had given a very clear message to society:

“You go ahead and rest. We will handle the big things.”

Their strategy worked.

Because in societies crushed under the struggle for livelihood, people think about their pockets first. Unfortunately, this is the bitter truth. Concepts like democracy, law, regime, and constitution only become discussable after the stomach is full.

And the government is using this quite well.

Until today, we always thought the opposite, saying things like "An empty pot topples the government," but it turns out the opposite is the case. The palace regime has weakened the political reflexes of the people of my country by keeping them under constant economic pressure.

In other words, an impoverished society is also becoming depoliticized.

In short, as the struggle for livelihood grows, regime debates become blurred.

People are no longer focusing on where the country is going, but on how to make ends meet by the end of the month.

The vast majority of society has moved away from thinking, "Let's send this government away, someone who will do better will surely come along."

A ground has emerged in Turkey where authoritarianism is progressing much more silently. This needs to be emphasized in particular.

Since no one has the energy left to lift their head, these and similar debates do not take place on the agenda of the people of my country.

This is the mass that KONDA refers to as 45 percent!

They are not just "those who are unaware"; they are people who have been systematically desensitized, distanced from politics, and psychologically exhausted.

We know that the government's greatest advantage in Turkey is not just the power of its own voters. That deep state of weariness, discouragement, and indifference that has formed in a significant part of society works very much in their favor.

Once people start saying, "Nothing will change anyway," the government can run wild in the political arena as it pleases.

In short, the moment society surrenders to this sentence, democracy is severely wounded, even if the ballot box is still there.

The biggest crisis Turkey is facing today may not be economic, nor legal... Perhaps the biggest crisis is society getting used to what is happening.

We have all learned together that a country decays not so much from lawlessness, but from the immunity gained against lawlessness.

The question still stands:

Turkey is truly at a very dangerous crossroads.

But when will the people of my country wake up from this deep sleep?

Or should we ask, will we realize the truth during the next long holiday, when we don't even have a Republic left to defend, and conclude our article there?