The elections not only provided us with those opportunities but also crystallized where political actors stand in terms of respecting people's values and sensitivity to their expectations and democratic maturity. Also, they have revealed to what extent the “dignified and dressed-up” journalists and columnists, with whose articles we begin the day and who allegedly try to understand society, are disconnected from people and how they put forward unsubstantiated and arbitrary judgments in their make-believe worlds created in their cocoons. Some politicians and journalists who claim to have a leftist understanding, which should contain in its essence populism, liberty and democracy, preferred to insult people who did not vote for them. They did this rather than look for the reasons behind the CHP's defeat in their favoring of the bureaucratic oligarchy over civil society, bolstering military interventions rather than promoting democracy, protecting the state providing them privileges against the people and upholding the status quo against change instead of questioning and analyzing their failures in reaching the majority of the population. It is a deplorable and miserable situation for the left.
Can you imagine what sort of anti-democratic thinking, arrogance, impertinence, egocentrism, political ineptitude and alienation from people this is that the CHP Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen, a former ambassador who we assumed to be well educated and well mannered, has the temerity to dauntlessly and insolently insult, humiliate and look down on people who did not support the CHP? It is as though he hasn't a whit of respect or politeness -- two essential rules of diplomatic life. He unscrupulously says, “The AK Party's election victory cannot be explained through reason. We should seek irrational reasons behind it.”
Öymen also says: “If this ruling party is able to increase its votes at a time when the majority of people are afflicted by economic problems, we should seek irrational reasons behind it. If you voted for the governing party although you were suffering from poverty, you were not content with your life. And although you kept criticizing the government day and night, then there is something here that cannot be explained through reason.” In saying this he openly accuses those who did not vote for the CHP of being foolish.
“One cannot set out on a journey with these people. I'm ashamed of the election results. Our people sold themselves in return for small amounts of money. We are faced with people who betrayed their martyrs. Our people shouldn't have been this pragmatic. I have traveled nearly the entire world but never have I seen such a nation without a distinctive personality.” These words belong to an oddity named Özgür Çakmak, who was nominated by the CHP in İzmir and was fortunately not elected. This person was to be elected by the people and represent them in Parliament. God saved the people from this enemy of the nation.
“We couldn't foresee that a large majority of our people would prefer to such a great extent an anti-secular party that can't protect national interests abroad, which has a submissive political understanding and has a foul-mouthed leader -- all in return for two sacks of coal, a sack of food and YTL 300 -- and this over the parties that defend the secular republic and oppose corruption and poverty.” These words belong to journalist Cüneyt Arcayürek, who has spent decades observing Turkish politics and is apparently no longer conscious of what he says due to infirmity.
Things written by Melik Aşık, Hasan Pulur, Tuncay Özkan, Mine Kırıkkanat, Emin Çölaşan, Bekir Coşkun, Özdemir İnce and many others are no different from the paragraphs I quoted here. All of them portray the 80 percent of the population who did not vote for the CHP more or less as “dark hordes” of people who “scratch their bellies,” make children one after the other, who can be easily bought in return for a pack of spaghetti and two bags of coal and who are unconscious, ignorant, shifty, despicable, and irrational.
Nearly 80 percent of the columnists and journalists who occupy important posts in the Turkish media announced before the elections that they would vote for the CHP and engaged in pro-CHP propaganda. This gives us enough of an explanation about why the Turkish media is so distanced from the realities of life and the country.
It is crystal clear that the marginal figures of politics and the media who are disrespectful toward their people, looking down upon them, insensitive toward their expectations and who consort with their own species in the narrow world they created, are the “aliens among us.”
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