As Turkey leaves behind the first quarter of the 21st century, it is on the brink of a social and structural deadlock. At the root of this blockage lies the fact that society, including the intelligentsia and the educated, has lost the ability to evaluate problems in the context of scientific objectivity and causality.
Unfortunately, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's world view, which is guided by reason, science and technology, has not been fully grasped even in 2025, and has been confined to a mere formal commemoration.
Traditional Shackles and Strategic “Skating”
Today, the authorities who are in the position of finding solutions take refuge in personal and arbitrary approaches based on traditional worldviews rather than rational data. This “stuck in its head” approach to governance produces daily and temporary band-aid solutions instead of lasting reforms. Constantly changing and incoherent strategies are distancing the country.
Instead of making progress, it leads to a state of “skidding”. This strategic vacuum is the biggest factor fueling opportunism, profiteering and social decay (anarchy, gangs, pollution).
Integrated Development: Technology, Industry and Agriculture
The only way to survive in the new world order is to produce new knowledge and technology with knowledge, not just to consume it. For Turkey, development is a model of social reconciliation in which security, services, industry and agriculture are not seen as competitors, but rather complement each other.
-Technological Renewal: Digital transformation and domestic technology production in industry is not a choice, but a matter of sovereignty.
-Production Oriented Economy: Modernization of agriculture and industry with scientific methods is the biggest development move that breaks foreign dependency.
Scientific Revolution in Education and “Clean Generation”
The only way out of this dark cycle is to free education from ideological or traditional molds and place it on a scientific basis. It is the construction of a talented, meritorious, modern and hardworking generation that will lift the country up. In order to repair the damage caused by the current generation of “deadbeats and profiteers”, a “Clean Generation” that internalizes ethical values, questions and produces is essential.
Intellectual Responsibility and Purification
Our debt to the Republic, Atatürk and the Turkish nation demands that we do not become “fugitives” who stand by and watch events unfold, or “sidekick” intellectuals who are "in bed" with the wheels of the system. What Turkey needs today is a radical purification and restructuring in every field. Realizing this transformation in the light of science, guided by merit and Atatürk's rational vision is not a choice, but a historical necessity.