If only Atatürk was to be taken as a reference!

A photo of opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu taken during a lunch break in the caravan during the "Justice March" was shared with the media.

He is wearing a white undershirt and looks homely.

This is a photograph that may look cute and natural to some people while it may be criticized by others who ask, "Why was it necessary [for him] to be seen in an undershirt?" This is open for discussion.

But the president criticized this photo for being given to the media and for it being published in the newspaper with the headline, "Citizen."

President Erdoğan spoke the other day and said: "This is an insult to my citizens. The head of the main opposition party calls journalists and says, 'Come take a photo of me like this [in an undershirt]' and says afterwards, 'I am the head of Atatürk's political party.' Have you ever seen Atatürk like this, eating a meal in an undershirt and witnessed him being photographed in that situation"? Is there anything like this?"

This part got my attention. 

Are we at the beginning of a period when politicians take Atatürk as an example? They show his deeds as the right formulas and warn each other by saying, "Would Atatürk do this, get a hold of yourself."

My goodness, is this a dream? If this is the case, don't wake me up!

Please tell me this is a turning point from a perspective!

We can assume many problems are already solved if politicians start to take Atatürk as an example and follow him in his behaviors and attitude!

Forget elegance, style and photo shoots. If this attitude and intention is serious, we can then expect to have polite rhetoric, meritocracy in the state, scientific education, uncompromising equality of women and men, imagination of a...

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