SOSYO-POLİTİK PARAMETRELER AÇISINDAN VAN’DAKİ SİYASAL TEMSİL ANLAYIŞI: İL MERKEZİ ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Political representation concept which can be defined as deciding for one or more individual has more than one meaning. The most important reasons for this meaning chaos is the fact that the political representation has experienced different stages throughout history. Indeed the absolute truth was religion before the enlightenment period. Thus the political representation has encountered as a religion-based concept. During the enlightenment period “universal reason” replaced the “religion” as the determiner of absolute truth. In the post enlightenment period the idea that there is no absolute truth and that everything is relative, became dominant. Now, the universal reason does not show the representation concept to the individual, and the person himself was beginning to shape this term in his mind by questioning it. The change for perception of representation has begun in Turkey with the foundation of the Republic. This republic focused on basic western modernization parameters. The universal reason (central sense) was claiming that it has the authority to determine what and how an individual must speak, dress, believe, write, live and think. We witness that this argument was cracked by Özal period and broken by AKP movement by a process in which the sacred and the inviolable began to be questioned. The universal reason which was determining what and how the political representation was, disappeared and the political representation began to be shaped by individuals' comment. In this work, the topics such as what the political representation means for Van people, how should it be, and to whom and what the representatives are responsible were analyzed in a period that the individual shapes, defines and directs the center by this definition.