While overall inflation is falling on paper, it is growing in the kitchen. This is not just a struggle to make ends meet, it is a total meltdown: Not the pensioner, but labor; not the family, but the future is shrinking. While sacrifice is demanded from the people, the privileged continue to grow and the tables continue to shrink.
Economy and Kitchen
Throughout 2025, it was said that “the backbone of inflation was broken” and presentations were decorated with rosy pictures. The figures heralded a “downward” trend, but the real destruction was sealed in the kitchen. General inflation rates may have been brought down by the base effect, but when you add the really basic needs to the basket - food, shelter, heating - the picture that emerges is far above the official rates. Citizens' inflation is based on their own pots and pans, not on TurkStat's virtual basket.
Statistical Hide and Seek and Confession
The freshest evidence of this illusion is hidden in the confessions of the economic management itself. In the last months of 2025 “below expectations” It is no longer a secret that the announced figures are not a success, but a statistical postponement. The Central Bank Governor's warning to foreign capital groups in London that “January-February inflation will be high” is actually a confession of the facts that were hidden from the public in November and December. This understanding, which, at the behest of TurkStat, has rolled over the figures to the beginning of 2026 in order to close 2025 low, confirms our thesis: Inflation does not end, it is just moved between the calendar leaves. The facts that were hidden in November and postponed in December land like a sledgehammer on the people's tables in January.
Two Inflation, One Life
There is a fundamental problem of honesty here. On the one hand, TÜİK, the official institution that determines pensions, and on the other hand ENAG, which takes the pulse of the street.
The year 2025 closed with this huge gap: While TurkStat announced that the year closed with .9, ENAG, which measures the reality of the street, showed .1. The most striking part is this: To date, the relevant ministries or the Center for Combating Disinformation have not filed a single concrete criminal complaint against the ENAG figures. The silence in the face of this ’huge difference“, which directly concerns the salaries of millions of people, is in fact the biggest proof of the tacit acceptance of the ENAG figures. Every figure they cannot refute is the registration of the right stolen from the pockets of the citizens.
Whose Sacrifice?
This picture is a political choice. On the one hand, there are millions whose salaries are being suppressed, and on the other, the privileged who are feeding off the crisis. If sacrifices were necessary, why did this burden always fall on the same shoulders?
Why were the same calls not made to them?
Those who operate toll-guaranteed highways and bridges,
City hospitals with patient guarantees,
Those who extort money from the public under the name of vehicle inspection. As of early 2026, the price paid for a single vehicle inspection is close to the sweat of a minimum wage earner for a week.
Conclusion / Warning
Something will happen in 2027, no doubt. But will it be the promised prosperity or a big showdown at the ballot box?
“Old Turkey” with their fairy tales, those who lure the people “Politicians of the old Turkey” as the government. My warning is not only for the government, but also for the opposition, which only addresses this deep pain of the people with numbers.
And of course, I am referring to those who suspend their intellectual honesty in cozy studios, detached from the realities of the people. Two types of echo chambers have been constructed here: On the one hand, the status quoist-defensive pens who try to rationalize the government's every step; on the other hand, the actors of asymmetrical criticism who, while rightly criticizing the government, cover the opposition's lack of political vision with a holy silence...
By paralyzing the function of democratic control, both groups are not putting fire on the people's tables, but rather consolidating their own political belonging. Those who call themselves journalists or political communicators, but in reality have become the apparatus of this polarized order; remember that just like the numbers on paper, the false reality you have constructed is doomed to hit the hard wall of life.
I'm telling you.