development; the anti-Erdoğan group believes that it is democratic breakdown and authoritarian. In both 2014 and 2018 elections, both the support and the fierce opposition to Erdoğan was observably high that Erdoğan won 2014 elections with 51.8% and 2018 elections with 52.6%. Impact of Gezi Park Protests There have been episodes leading to a bimodal polarity in Turkey, and Gezi Park protests classify as one. Gezi Parkı protests are actually a milestone seen as the time people started to observe the polarization and political situation. The participants were from many different generations and ideologies, and most were opposed to the authoritarian approach of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and demanded real democracy. Yet, surprisingly, a survey conducted on the protestors had shown that 70 percent of the participants did not identify themselves as ‘close to any party’, and 37 percent are expecting a new political party. Though Gezi Parkı protests were started due to environmental reasons, they became a political opinion and stood up. Post-Gezi–Present The effect of polarization on social relations can be best observed by the 2016 survey result that 74% of people would not approve their children play with a children who has parents of different opinions about elections and who to vote for. In the 2017 Referendum, the bimodal polarity was seen in the Twitter hashtags. In the 31 March 2019 election, there were two alignments formed. One of them was the Nation Alignment which included CHP, Good Party and Felicity Party. The other side was the Public Alignment which included MHP and Ak Party. However HDP announced that they were not a part of both alignments. Media Social media Gezi Park protests can also be shown as the period of time when the social media became very effective in the polarization, most probably as it demonstrated the opinions of people through numbers and statistics. The week when the Gezi Park protests first started, there were 3,600,000 activists in 80 provinces (out of 81) of Turkey. Twitter users in Turkey increased from 1.8 million to 9.5 million within the first five days of the start of the protests, and 13 million tweets were shared with the hashtag #direngeziparki (#resistgezipark). The aim of using social media was to go beyond what people called the "penguin media" (mainstream media corporations such as CNN Türk that aired documentaries of penguins instead of discussing the ongoing protests at the