This inquiry explores the spread of a novel political language based on humour and irony into Turkish politics. The Taksim Gezi Park Protests, in addition to presenting a novel subject to Turkish politics, induced a novel language that places humour at the centre. The Government’s neoliberal and authoritarian policies and tight control over traditional media molded the resistance to be humoristic and indirect. People employed alternative media to utter their disagreement, mostly in the form of social media messages in addition to street performances, graffiti, videos and murals. This novel wave of humour, which this inquiry labels the “public square humour” underscored inventiveness, improvisation and pluralism via the use of traditional conversational humour mechanisms of the Turkish folk narratives. The inquiry explores the effect of this novel wave of humour on the professional politicians over the course of following years after the protests in a progressively authoritarian political climate. It assays the Twitter messages of four main party leaders and politicians who are active in Twitter, both qualitatively and quantitatively. With discourse analytic methods, it distinguishes the political parties that enfold the novel language of the political opposition. Finally, it concludes that Demirtas inarms the public square humour better and employs it to emphasize the transformation of HDP (People’s Democratic Party) from a defendant of ethnic politics to the representative of the novel voice of Turkish political opposition.