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‘We Should Build up a New Encompassing Language Besides Political Style Repetitions and Political Habits.’
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‘We Should Build up a New Encompassing Language Besides Political Style Repetitions and Political Habits.’

Hatice Aktay
31 Ağustos 2021

We’ve talked with Ayhan Bilgen, the ex-mayor of Kars Municipality who was released recently, about the closure cases brought against Kobani, HDP, about civil society - politics relations, and the concepts of 'alternative politics' and 'direct democracy', which have been used frequently in recent days. Defending that a new political language should be built up that would put the old aggressive discourses, polarizations and marginalization away, Bilgen said, "We must develop a new language that is encompassing besides political style repetitions and political habits."