{"id":285524,"date":"2026-04-30T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=285524"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:28:19","slug":"does-the-badge-cover-the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/does-the-badge-cover-the-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Badge Cover the Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a badge for someone who speaks racism is legitimizing not just a person, but an understanding. Standing against language that insults a people is a supra-political responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The issue that has been talked about for days is actually very clear.<\/p>\n<p>While Arif Kocab\u0131y\u0131k's harsh and insulting words against the Armenian people are obvious, the fact that he comes here today and is given a badge raises only one question: Is it that easy? How can a language that was unacceptable yesterday be ignored today?<\/p>\n<p>This is not about one person. Not a person, but a people have been insulted.<\/p>\n<p>And it is not such a light word. But it is treated as if it was never said.<\/p>\n<p>But wearing a badge does not erase the past. The word stays where it is.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be clear here: We cannot normalize a language that calls a people \u201cbastards\u201d. This is a matter of conscience before politics.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is not only about votes, but also about setting boundaries. What is acceptable and what is not...<\/p>\n<p>Today this is the issue. We don't know who will be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But what is kept silent today will be normalized tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the issue is simple: you cannot be a party to the insult of a people.<\/p>\n<p>And if it is, it is not politics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bir halka edilen hakaretin taraf\u0131 olunmaz.<\/p>\n<p>And if it is, it is not politics.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":285525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-285524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-yazarlar","tag-manset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285526,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285524\/revisions\/285526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}