Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu led Turkey's main opposition party CHP for over a decade and was its presidential candidate in 2023, which made his name central to election memes in Turkey. Konya, a large central Anatolian province, has long voted heavily for the governing conservative bloc, so a claim that Kılıçdaroğlu won there reads as satire rather than news. The phrase spread in Turkish social media edits as shorthand for an outcome nobody believed could happen, and it remains used whenever an unlikely winner is announced.