The imminent danger awaiting Ekrem İmamoğlu

31 October 2019

Do you remember?

What good words did Dilek İmamoğlu, the wife of Ekrem İmamoğlu, say for Binali Yıldırım's wife, Semiha Hanım!

“When I look at Ms. Semiha, I see my own mother and my own sister. Their choice is just like Semiha Hanım's choice," he said.

These words seem to have been forgotten... By highlighting the outfit Dilek İmamoğlu wore at the Cumhuriyet concert, like Mine Kırıkkanatgiller or something...

They made goygoy after goygoy saying, "A real republican woman."

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We all know very well the feeling underlying the emphasis on "a woman of the republic".

That feeling… “Oh! We are tired of those boring heads” feeling.

That feeling... is the feeling that we have been devastated for years as we look at the headscarved first lady.

That feeling... It is the feeling of "he must be uncovered".

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The field of struggle in politics... Whenever it focuses on the headscarf... Whenever it is reduced to a lifestyle... Whenever it is drawn into the field of values...

Two things have always happened

, is happening:

ONE: Besides, a great shame is being committed by humiliating the conservative lifestyle.

TWO: It is becoming impossible for conservatives to break away from the AK Party.

Ekrem İmamoğlu is a politician who broke, broke and destroyed this vicious circle in Istanbul.

Imamoglu pulled the field of struggle in politics from the headscarf, the field of values, and the lifestyle. He went down the street, embraced the people who had voted for the AK Party, read the Qur'an, went to the mosque, took the respect for their lifestyle as a flag.

And he won.

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Those who greet Dilek İmamoğlu at the Cumhuriyet concert in Sultanahmet as "here is a republican woman" are sabotaging this great achievement.

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When AK Party voters see such suggestive and humiliating approaches...

They put all their criticisms in brackets and return to their parties.

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I mostly wonder what Ekrem İmamoğlu will do in the face of this new situation.

Will he realize this danger?

Or the tuxedo he's wearing

Will he be swept away by the applause he receives from his own base and get into the mood of "Never mind, whatever happens"?

(Ahmet Hakan, Hurriyet Newspaper)