The style of expression...

The original is not Turkish.

The famous 18th-century French thinker Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, said:

“Le style est l’homme même”

Ziya Paşa translated this into Turkish as “Üslubu beyan aynıyla insan” (The style of expression is the person himself).

It then became established in our language as a proverb.

It means that whatever a person's personality is, it reflects in their style; one's manner of speaking describes the person themselves.

When I listened to Özgür Özel in recent days, this sentence came to my mind.

I won't even get into the style of the leading figures of the government, starting with Tayyip Erdoğan; they haven't hidden themselves at all since 2002.

Most of the time, they have made words and sentences that even an ordinary person would refrain from using the norm of political style. They considered street jargon, insults, threats, and even swearing to be a skill.

It was part of their political strategy.

They established the bond between the voter and the leader through this jargon. No matter what someone from that camp says or how they speak, after 22 years, no one is surprised anymore.

But when it comes to the CHP, let's stop and think for a moment.

A politician sitting in the seat of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, İsmet İnönü, and even Bülent Ecevit, who wrote the book on political courtesy, is obliged to pay attention to their style, no matter what.

It is that clear and simple; let's underline it with a thick pen.

Even when giving the strongest reaction, one must maintain their level and choose their words carefully.

But more importantly, they must not lose touch with the real world with the statements they make, they must not say things they cannot do, and they must do what they say “whatever the cost”!

They should not bluster in vain, just for the sake of talking.

Last week, following the arrest of 5 CHP mayors, Özgür Özel reacted to Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın Gürlek with the words, “You hit a hard rock, son.”

Perhaps unable to contain his momentum, he later said, “I will come, I will tear it all down, pull yourself together. We come like gentlemen, we hold our protest, and we disperse, but don't make me lose my temper; we will gather not to disperse.”

He also addressed Tayyip Erdoğan, saying, “I am telling whoever in the AK Party needs to pull themselves together. From here on, this will end badly, take him out of here.”

We already know that the judiciary has become a stick for the government, that Tayyip Erdoğan wants to shape politics with this stick, and that he is trying to eliminate potential rivals with hollow cases; we know that anyone who speaks of rights, law, and justice is thrown inside under the pretext of “insulting the President.”

It is plain and clear for all to see.

But that is not the issue. The problem here is Özgür Özel's style...

Akın Gürlek is not your peer you played games with on the street, so you cannot address him as “son.”

You cannot be unaware that with this address, you are giving ammunition to both Akın Gürlek and the government! Moreover, it is clear where the instructions for the judicial operations against the CHP come from. Akın Gürlek is just a bureaucrat carrying out the given instructions.

Besides, if anyone understands exactly what he wants to say, let them come forward!

For example, who did he mean by “hard rock”?

If he meant himself, he showed that he is not a “hard rock” and cannot be one no matter what he does, when he buttoned his jacket in front of Tayyip Erdoğan and said let's warm up, let's soften, let's normalize.

Since he took his seat, he has not put forward a “principled” stance against either Tayyip Erdoğan or the system he brought and the political Islamist mentality.

Because he is constantly in the mood of “we don't have a fundamental issue, but we can pretend to object to the procedure,” the “hard rock” remark here remains empty.

In the same speech, he also acted tough, saying, “I will come, I will tear it all down.”

If he loaded an abstract meaning into this sentence, such as I will deal with the politicized judiciary after the election, we don't know, but the people of my country probably asked themselves whether we are going to raid the courthouse and take whoever we find hostage, or are we going to start a hunger strike in the courthouse corridors?

Concluding his sentence, he said, “We come like gentlemen, we hold our protest, and we disperse, but don't make me lose my temper; we will gather not to disperse.”

If Özgür Özel hasn't lost his temper yet because of what has happened to both the country and the CHP to date, it means there is a very serious problem there.

What more does he expect to happen for him to lose his temper?

For example, will he lose his temper when the government hands the key to Kılıçdaroğlu on June 30 and tears the CHP apart?

If he had any intention of gathering not to disperse, why didn't he do it on March 19 when İmamoğlu was arrested and thrown inside?

Let's sit straight and talk straight. None of what Özgür Özel says has any equivalent in real life. Perhaps he is relying on the people of my country having a short memory. After all, there won't be anyone saying, you said this yesterday, what happened, you forgot quickly.

In short, style is only one side of the issue, but let us put a period to our article by saying that the CHP will not be a real hope for Turkey until it returns to its founding settings in every sense.