Muhammet Ali Zurnaci, Senior Analyst @ III’ Corporate
May 30, 2023
- It was very hard to deal with anti-refugee votes for their voting behavior had no ideology but a diffused reactivity. It was almost impossible to manage a reactionary behavior divided into two blocks (Ogan+Ozdag).
- Dancing with the anti-refugee nationalist Ozdag in the last days caused a great loss of votes in Southeastern Türkiye. The move of Kılıçdaroğlu towards Ozdağ irritated the HDP voters. Participation fell. So “the loss” was more than “the gain.”
- Kılıçdaroğlu clearly fell short of convincing the rural population despite being the candidate of a block but not a classical CHP leader.
- His team’s choices of the campaign, the lack of strategy in general, and the weak and wrong tactical moves caused a withering away from the necessary excitement and enthusiasm. MAZ Corporate’s March 15 and May 20 recommendations were not followed.
- While the people of Turkey try to survive within a suppressing atmosphere of growing inflation and the cost of living, Kılıçdaroğlu’s choice of “Tranquility and Calmness will win” was an anthropological mistake. People didn’t need to calm down. That choice of the campaign was deadly.
- His peaceful and Gandhian style will be remembered by Turkey’s democrats with millions of smiles in the future without a doubt. Yet the question is: Is it acceptable for 50 percent ‘to lose every election through the ethics of tranquility?’ Time will tell us.
May 30, 2023, İstanbul