High Time to Take a Little More Interest in What Is Happening beyond Europe

On May 28, the elections "about everything", the presidential election in Turkey, were decided. The degree of polarity of views in Turkey was very similar to that in our country. The level of emotions, the number of invectives used instead of arguments too. A tale about the fundamental choice between patriotic conservatism and cosmopolitan leftism is similar. Involvement of the state apparatus on one side too. 

The Turks chose. 

What is important in all this for us? Realizing that the calculated electoral "attractions" that await us this summer are something repetitive, something happening in seemingly completely different cultures. Let's practice the slogan popular in the first round of the Turkish election: "We are all Turks.” We may need it. 

Although it is possible that in the end it may turn out that "We are all Turkish.” “Nursema nasıl oy verirdi? - How would Nursema vote?" This is the most popular question of the last stage of the election campaign, referring to the heroine of the series "Kizilcik Serbeti". 

Gender choice as a political choice is also a new standard in 21st century politics.

It's funny that this happens in the same place where, even before the Neolithic, several thousand years ago, a slow, huge change in ideas relating to gender began. Older, Paleolithic female idols with broad hips gave way to heroic, crazy male warriors. To those who continue, with every election (erection?) They lead to battle, to the end, they charge the whole enemy world.

Satirical drawing with the text: "We are all Turks”;

Katarzyna Kozyra, "Blood ties," 1995;

The female figure of Gobekli Tepe, layer II, 7500-6000 years BC; 

Warriors, among others on the relief from Sayburc, from VII(?) Millennium BC, squeezing a member in a handful, attacked by two leopards. Apparently the oldest known scene with a narrative, a long series.