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ÜMİT KOCASAKAL: SINGING THE OLD SONG
Portrait of the Week Oct 30, 2026

ÜMİT KOCASAKAL: SINGING THE OLD SONG

Who is back? Ümit Kocasakal. He won the election for president of the Istanbul Bar Association on Oct. 25, returning to the post he held from 2010 to 2016. And which slogan did he bring back with him? “We are the soldiers of Mustafa Kemal.” He and his supporters chanted it together after his victory.

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