It is still easy to describe what is happening in Turkey as an “economic crisis”.
But it is incomplete.
Because this is not just a crisis.
It is a form of distribution.
It is a system in which it is largely clear who will lose and who will win.
In Turkey, the old debates are no longer relevant.
Right-left.
Secular-conservative.
Center-periphery.
These things may be talked about.
But there is another distinction that is decisive:
Survivalists
and those who don't have to.
This is not a comment.
This is everyday life.
Today, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey may be raising interest rates.
“It is called ”rational politics".
But who is rationality for?
Because in the kitchen it's a different story.
People do not learn about inflation from statements.
He learns at the checkout.
And that safe says the same thing every time:
It is not enough.
No class, huh?
For years a story has been told to this country:
“Everyone is middle class.”
“The one who works wins.”
“He who wills will rise.”
Today there is no equivalent to this story.
There is one side:
Growing with its presence.
There is another side:
Those who cannot live off their labor.
This is not just an inequality.
This is a systematic decomposition.
And it is becoming permanent.
How does this system work?
It is easy to explain the issue in terms of individual ambition.
But this is not the truth.
The reality is this:
This is order,
protects those with money.
The one with money grows it.
It does not protect the laborer.
It leaves the laborer fragile.
So there are not only “successful ones”.
There is a structure in place that always produces a winner from the same side.
A majority that endures
Today it is not a question of “making ends meet”.
Something heavier:
Social resilience.
People are not living.
It is holding.
It consumes less.
He wants less.
He dreams less.
And the most dangerous:
He gets used to it.
Poverty becomes uneconomic after a while,
becomes a psychological boundary.
At that point society changes.
It becomes silent.
This is not a difference of opinion
Calling it “polarization” minimizes the issue.
It is a matter of interest.
If one sector is growing out of the crisis,
if the other sector is shrinking...
This is not a debate.
This means two different economic realities in the same country.
There is no such place as neutrality
“Saying ”I am not a party" is not a position in this picture.
Because the existing order already protects someone,
neutrality is not about staying outside that order,
is to stay in it.
So the issue is simple:
Silence in the face of an unfair distribution,
not neutrality, but acceptance.
Final word: This is not sustainable
What is happening in Turkey is not a crisis.
A threshold.
While one side is always losing,
when the other side is always winning...
This is not sustainable.
History is clear on this point:
When the distance between hunger and appetite exceeds a certain point,
that distance closes.
But this closure does not happen by itself.
It happens with difficulty.
And when that moment comes,
it's not about the economy anymore.
“The problem in this country is not poverty; it is the fact that the distribution of poverty has not changed.”