Can a mistake made in strategy be corrected with tactics?

Knowing that mistakes made in strategy cannot be corrected with tactics is not enough to prevent strategic errors from being made. The first button fastened incorrectly makes it inevitable that all subsequent buttons will be fastened incorrectly. We are talking about the CHP's primary agenda, the discussions regarding early elections and the determination of a presidential candidate as soon as possible. It has become more or less clear which candidate will have their path cleared and which one will be pushed out of the ring. When you take a look at the print and visual media, you immediately understand whose advertising is being done and whose path is being blocked.

It is time to seek answers to some questions so that the strategic error being made can be seen more clearly. Should the priority be determining the party's presidential candidate or abandoning the presidential government system? A parliamentary system based on the separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judiciary, or a presidential government system that equips the leader with powers that turn them into a sultan? A country where all institutions are rendered insignificant, democracy has effectively disappeared, and which is extremely authoritarian internally and disreputable externally, or a state of law determined to remain in the league of democracies?

The CHP's primary agenda should be to abandon the presidential government system as soon as possible, which isolates and renders Turkey ineffective, and weakens its hand even on the issues where it is most justified. The CHP must develop a strategy that will turn the return to the parliamentary system into a social demand, and gather trade unions, democratic mass organizations, and the public around this demand. Instead of personal ego lacking infrastructure, foresight, and reality, it should lead a struggle that will restore functionality to state institutionalism, state memory, and the century-old accumulation of the Republic, and reactivate the former initiative of the TBMM.

While the CHP needs to develop a strategy that prioritizes democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers to solve the difficult problems Turkey faces both internally and externally, reducing the issue solely to determining a presidential candidate is extremely wrong. Moreover, it is not a tactical error, but a strategic one. The problem stems from a lack of strategic vision and the inability to make a sound analysis of the country and the world during the process we are going through. Yet, Turkey is a country that has managed to overcome the severe crises and complex problems of that period in the recent past with the parliamentary system.

In a process where the presidential government system has chronicled the regime crisis and the separatist terrorist organization is constantly raising demands with the air of a creditor merchant, it is unthinkable for the CHP, whose defense of law was the 'Müdafaa-i Hukuk' and whose foundation was the 'Halk Fırkası', to remain silent and unresponsive to the country's salvation. The base of the CHP, which has been the insurance of the Republic's founding philosophy, the nation-state unitary structure, the rule of law, and the secular, democratic regime, will not approve of it ignoring, acting as if there is no problem, or worse, engaging in the folly of raising the stakes while there are separatist/ethnic-based interventions into the founding architecture of the country/regime.

We would like to hope that the current administrators of the party founded by the cadres who founded Turkey are aware and conscious that the country's interests come before their personal egos, individual goals, and future designs. We would like to remind you once again that changing the presidential government system, which is both the cause and the result of the despotic regime, is more important than determining a presidential candidate.