If instead of finding solutions to the country's economic crisis, poverty, unemployment and injustice, Manisa MP Özgür Özel starts making politics based on people's physical characteristics, then there is a serious problem of idea generation.
Targeting a press advisor over his moustache and using expressions such as “dirty moustache” is not a sign of political courtesy, but of political exhaustion. Where ideas end, insults begin. Where there is no argument, condescension comes into play.
Özgür Özel, who has been likened to the “Tarzan of Manisa”, targeting his opponents or critics on the basis of their appearance, rather than their ideas, does nothing but degrade the political debate. A person's mustache, hair, clothes or physical characteristics are not political arguments.
What Turkey needs is not polemics over personal characteristics, but concrete solutions to economic, legal, democratic and social problems. Dealing with the appearance of people instead of producing politics is nothing but the manifestation of political constipation and poverty of ideas.
Language that polarizes society and labels people based on their physical characteristics does not serve democratic politics, but tension. What is expected from a member of parliament is not to insult, but to produce solutions, put forward a vision and give hope to the society.