The crisis of representative democracy has enveloped the entire world. While the authoritarian regimes that marked the first half of the last century directly threatened representative democracy, today's capital-centered perception operations have established a hidden and soft hegemony over the will of the people. The fact that the demands and will of the people have become the priority of politics necessitates a new socialist perspective.
The politics of representation, which sees society only as an object and a storehouse of votes, is systematically moving away from social good and the public interest. Personal career planning, get-rich-quick schemes, and habits of favoritism and nepotism are defended and normalized as if they were party policy. This undermines public trust in politics. Only a new socialist perspective will enable society to join the political struggle with new hope. A social construction process that can overcome ethnic and religious fault lines and polarization policies can only be possible with a new citizen consciousness. The transformation of polarization into boat fights and collusion serves as a cover for lack of merit and corruption.
An approach that sees transparency and participation as the sine qua non of social politics can develop a perspective that is embraced by all segments of society. Only in this way can the politics of ghettoization, where violence and blind terror find grounds, be overcome. It is unacceptable for any section of society to exert pressure on other sections of society, to interfere with their way of life, to condemn them to their own utopia, no matter in what name.
The loss of 3 policemen's lives in the last days of 2025 due to the widespread ISIS operations, probably linked to the Syria policy, has great lessons for everyone, for all of us.
It is not acceptable to normalize violence on religious, ethnic or any other ideological grounds.
A socialist perspective cannot be developed without taking a pluralist approach to the richness and diversity of society as a whole.
Turkey needs to move on from the squabbles of the past and focus on building a more humane and civilized country for the future.
During periods of rupture in history, in the days of Anatolia's Fetret, the solidarity networks of large segments of society also formed the infrastructure for an awakening.
From the Ahi culture to the Kuvayi Milliye spirit, every recovery and uprising move that put society at the center has heralded a ‘rebirth'.
In the face of the new fractures, civil wars and mapping operations into which the Middle East is being dragged, the greatest source of strength to welcome 2026 with new hope must be sought in the determination and will of society.