Most of the BirGün columnists are members or sympathizers of the socialist Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP).
At the next 2009 local elections, Mithat Nehir was the sole victorious ÖDP candidate in the entire republic (17,723 votes for the whole country, i.e. 0.04%), and became mayor of the Samandağ district.
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