2023-04-23 08:40:27
I saw a photo in my grandfather’s album years ago. The Mayor of Kaş, with a typewriter on the back of a photo he used as a holiday greeting,I congratulate your Eid al-Adha with the view of the ruined breakwater awaiting service!” he wrote. My grandfather, who was a member of the Antalya Provincial General Assembly in the 1930s and 1940s, must have found the president’s card expressing his condolences so cleverly that he kept it.
of the local administrator “I congratulate youI thought it was a typo. Years later, in the first period of the Republic “congratulationsI learned that this word was used instead of ”. Until my grandfather died in 1974, he was celebrated by others in all the holiday greetings he received; congratulated them in replying. So is my father…
After the military coup of September 12, 1980, when the Republic founded by Atatürk and his friends was destroyed and the revolutions started to degenerate, the names of the holidays and the methods of celebration changed, like many other things. The AKP of the 2000s inherited this counter-revolutionary effort. This made the job easier.
At the end of the first decade of AKP rule, institutions such as the national army and justice were collapsed with the influence of the Fethullahist structuring embedded in the state, while the feasts where national unity was ensured were played. Public administrators were restricted from attending national holidays. One of them was April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.
23 April over time, “Anniversary of the nation’s dominance in the state administration” It was taken out of its original meaning and simply turned into a holiday dedicated to children. In fact, the nature of the holiday was changed by adding the international feast sauce to the celebrations.
The devaluation and decontextualization of April 23 continued with other celebrations that developed alternatives to it. In the ceremonies fixed for the week of April 23, that is, between April 20 and 26, they dressed the little individuals with clothes that fit their beliefs and celebrated their birth week! Local protocol and the public applauded this show, which was presented as an AKP normal. The application was removed after 2017.
In the following years, the average age at the April 23 celebration would be carefully reduced. The place of the senior primary school student who sat in the seat of the governor, even for five minutes, was now being replaced by tiny individuals who went to kindergarten. Under the compassionate direction of young female teachers, the task was completed when they came to the Atatürk monument in the city and took their photos with paper flags waving in their hands.
Whereas, Atatürk These tiny bodies, whose love is supposed to have been given, were old enough to not even know that Ata drove the crows away with his sister Makbule! Children were given such a role in the new normal of Turkey, where the celebrations were stripped of their content and turned into a show, a social media post.
The general elections will be recorded as a historic moment when the regime change that the country has been dragged into in the last 20 years is likely to come to an end. The real question is what will happen next; To what extent will the anti-republican values that have been taken for granted by society be taken back, how will the people be consented to this? Let’s see if the frog in the cauldron can jump out and get out.
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