The evolution of the corruption that was glorified as a tabloid figure in the media world into the dark curtain that was opened with the Bebek Hotel investigation, that is, into a real crime spiral; in fact, it whispers of a terrible defeat growing in the shadow of conservative power. Has the morality lost in the test of Masa, Kasa and Nisa turned into a tool of blackmail and digital slavery in luxury rooms?
Turkey is now confronted with such files, such images and such stories that even the most optimistic of us “No way, that's outrageous.” cannot say. While we are stunned by the scandalous revelations of the Bebek Hotel investigation, the leaked testimonies and the shocking confessions coming from that dark world, we are actually experiencing the peak of the social decay that we cannot put a name to. A period of time “morality”, “value” and “honor” From those days when their concepts were at the center of politics; today we have drifted into rooms of mirrors, drug parties in luxury villas, betting and gambling networks, black money flows.
So how was the story of this noisy collapse written? Cultural degeneration? Moral erosion? The corrosive effect of prolonged rule? The double life culture left over from FETÖ? Or is it the distortion produced by politics itself? All true. All of them are bitter.
Formal Success, Spiritual Emptiness
The claim to establish cultural power has unfortunately focused on buildings and physical symbols rather than spirituality. Although the huge buildings rising on campuses are presented as a success from the outside, the real defeat is the emergence of a class that is incompatible with the values those buildings represent. The issue is not the rise of buildings, but the proliferation of those who, in the shadow of those buildings, become complicit under the name of loyalty instead of merit. Instead of cultural power, a new neighborhood has emerged: A coterie that has the arrogance of unaccountability and puts power above morality.
This is exactly where we should pause and ask: Is it just a coincidence that the conservative government, which has been in power in the country for 23 years, and the conservative neighborhood actors that have developed in the shadow of this government are the leading actors in this picture? Whose shoulders bear the responsibility for a morality that sets out with the claim of restoring a generation, only to be destroyed in luxury suites?
FETO Legacy Double Life Culture
This collapse did not fall from the sky. FETÖ has been a key factor in conservative society “double life” normalized: One face on the outside and another on the inside; secret houses, secret relationships, symbolic piety and a completely instrumentalized morality... Many practices that have emerged today are the residue of this toxic legacy. Where once it was a virtue to be humble, today it is “double life” modesty for the new class of enthusiasts “failure” into a signifier. Masks have been put on, values have become mere fronts.
The Five Horsemen of the Swamp and the Digital Blackmail Scheme
The recent operations show how drugs, prostitution, illegal betting, gambling and black money traffic form an intertwined spiral of crime. The most horrifying dimension of this spiral is the alleged hidden camera installations in VIP venues and hotel rooms.
If these grave allegations are true, who was recorded in those rooms, what kind of “digital slavery” and what kind of power from politics to commerce is being amassed in this way gains vital importance. This picture, in which wills are broken with banned substances and futures are mortgaged with secret recordings, is a nightmare that has descended upon society.
Table, Nisa, Safe: The Great Test Lost
One of the basic mottoes of the conservative neighborhood, remembered with the historical warning of Mr. Erbakan “Table, Nisa, Safe” It is an undeniable fact that the test was lost with a heavy defeat in these mirrored rooms. This new class produced by proximity to power has turned power (masa), lust (nisa) and uncontrolled wealth (kasa) into objects of consumption rather than a moral compass.
No field of achievement can replace the fact that this test has been lost. “shawl” like the one in the mirror rooms. Breakthroughs in the defense industry or bridges are not enough to clean the dirty breath in the mirrored rooms. Now not only the king is naked, but also the clowns who applaud the king are naked. The make-up has fallen off and the truth is exposed in all its nakedness.
That Dirty Breath: Both Ironic and True
The real truth behind those masks is the dirty breath that is being breathed in and out today. This pollution is not just a metaphorical moral decadence; it is the peculiar, heavy and disturbing physical odor of a body mired in drug abuse. It is well known that drug users have bad breath, burn the nasal passages and make those around them uncomfortable. Today the neighborhood “elite” This breath, emanating from some of the figures marketed as the "dark parties", both ironically carries the smell of those dark parties and literally suffocates the society. This dirty breath that was exchanged in mirrored rooms and luxury villas has now spilled out onto the streets and turned into a breath that poisons the government itself.
2026: The Great Purification Milestone
These operations should be understood not only as a police purge, but as a total social cleansing. The conservative sector has a great duty here: It should not try to cover up this dirty picture with other areas where the government has been successful out of a sense of partisanship. Likewise, the opposition should support this cleansing process without any buts or buts and contribute to the cleansing of the nation from these cancerous cells.
Social decay is more dangerous than any weapon; this is the real survival problem. Those who pretend to defend the neighborhood with morality may still be applauding their own reflection in their mirrored rooms, but that reflection is now suffocating society. From now on, all segments of society, without discriminating between the government and the opposition, must come to their senses. Because it is clear that the decay that starts in one part of the body will spread to the whole body if no measures are taken.
We know that when the mirrors are broken, the false lights will go out and only the spaciousness of truth will remain. 2026 should be a milestone for this great moral purification, an irreversible clean slate.