Discussions on morality are usually kept at the individual level. However, morality is precisely linked to the sphere of social relations.
In particular, reducing morality to the metaphysical realm and discussing it through religion leads to unhealthy polemics. Every systematic that contributes to the moral transformation of human beings is valuable. However, this transformation cannot be handled by detaching it from its social context.
Morality is not an escape from politics. On the contrary, it is the ground of fundamental, universal, human values on which the political sphere will also be based.
When this ground is rotten, the law or other institutions to be built on it cannot survive. In the simplest terms, corruption is the looting of public resources and plundering for individual interests as a result of corruption and decay in social relations.
No noble cause can justify the looting of public resources.
If the institution of politics is to become a focus for solving social problems, the prerequisite for this is moral purification.
Cadres with questionable legitimacy cannot ensure social trust. If politics cannot provide an environment of trust, it cannot establish social politics and cannot put forward a participatory solution alternative.
Turkey's need to come to terms with corruption in all its forms, regardless of who perpetrated it, must be seen as integral to the country's security and future.
Unless the opposition has the self-confidence to “cast the first stone”, this will continue to be a problem of “survival”. If the problem is not to be condemned to mere judicial processes, politics must implement its own purification process without delay.
Local governments are considered the cradle of democracy because they are more accessible and accountable than central government.
The purification of civic spaces such as the media and professional organizations will also come to life thanks to the leading role of politics.