Local Elections National Enemies

In this article, the focus is on the transformation of political relationship, in particular of 30 March 2014 local elections, between the ruling party and the opposition, including the Gulen movement, into a kind of enemization strategy through politics of fear. It was investigated how the politics of fear; solidifying the power of ruling party on the one hand, and transforming the society into an obedient mass on the other, affects the way of understanding politics and political struggle during the local election process. For the purpose of the study, a discursive reading has been made on all election rally speeches, and the texts of introductory meeting for election declaration and balcony speech of JDP (Justice and Development Party) leader Erdogan; the politics of fear condemning the opposition morally and politically and its nature, which expels political struggle from power-opposition relationship and transforms into friend-enemy relationship, have been tried to be questioned.