It is unacceptable to use the values of the left and see Alevis and leftists only as a vote bank.
Bringing a name who until yesterday was a former nationalist and anti-communist to the Gazi neighborhood, presenting him as a “wise person” and “opinion leader” is disrespectful to the history and memory of the neighborhood.
Welcoming people who have just joined the party as revolutionary leaders is nothing but political unprincipledness.
Even more serious is the spread of an understanding that uses the slogans, struggles and symbols of revolutionaries only to benefit the headquarters.
On the one hand, those who market ANAP-origin contractors as “the second Atatürk”, on the other hand, those who distribute badges to ATM rats for the sake of social media popularity, and imposing people who have betrayed even the countrymen as speakers to the people just because the headquarters wants it, even if they are not popular in revolutionary neighborhoods.
The history of the Gazi Neighborhood was written with the blood of revolutionaries.
It is opportunism to ignore this memory and carry names recruited from the right, who later pose as social democrats, to the neighborhood as “wise men”.
This is not called renewal; it is emptying the values of the left and alienating itself from its own history and social base.
An understanding that is supposedly social democratic and uses the values of the left only to open seats and offices for right-wing cadres cannot create trust in society.
People naturally ask: Is this the kind of politics that will win elections?