“They forged iron with iron, one hot, one cold.
They broke man with man; one was hungry, one was full...”
These two lines are in fact the simplest summary of what has been happening in this country for the last thirty years. The hardship we are talking about today, the cost of living, the deep gap between the rich and the poor is not a coincidence. This picture did not emerge spontaneously. It was built step by step, with conscious choices and planned policies.
Such an order has been built in the last thirty years;
The upper class has grown steadily,
The center pole collapsed,
The working class has been rendered unable to breathe.
The difference between the classes is no longer just a “difference”, it is an abyss. The distance between the millions who live off their labor and the minority who are close to power has become unbridgeable.
This story started in the 90s.
During the ANAP period, under the name of “free market”, state property changed hands at a fraction of its value. Factories, ports and facilities were sold. Small businesses were crushed under imports. While a handful of rich became richer, the entire burden was put on the backs of the people. The middle class was broken that day. The stones of the class gap we live in today were laid in those years.
Then the AKP era began.
The air of recovery in the first years soon evolved into a completely different structure. The understanding of municipalism turned into a corporate mentality. Municipalities ceased to be institutions of the people; they turned into commercial structures with huge subsidiaries. Resources were transferred to these structures, tenders started to be awarded among narrow circles. The public, on the other hand, has become unable to know what the system, which runs on their taxes, is doing. Transparency disappeared and an unaccountable system was established.
This is precisely why the big corporate groups that have been discussed in the public as the “Gang of 5’ have been on the agenda for years. We are not directly accusing anyone of a crime. But everyone sees this fact:
Certain companies consistently stand out in large public tenders,
Politicians who question this are persecuted,
He is somehow removed from the stage.
Those who question how, to whom and to what the people's money is transferred are silenced. This alone is enough to show how much this order fears criticism.
What the “new faces” on the stage today are saying is actually not foreign at all. With fancy concepts such as “modern management”, “professionalism”, “municipalism like a company”, the public sphere is being transformed back into a commercial model.
But to run it like a company,
It deprives the public of transparency,
It takes decisions behind closed doors,
It leaves the rights of the people to the discretion of certain circles.
The people don't need it.
People need justice, transparency and accountability.
We saw this movie in the 90s.
We watched it again in the 2000s.
Today they are trying to show it once again.
But now we are very clear.
Our struggle is against this order.
This is the fate of this country;
Neither the ANAP's policies that made the rich grow richer,
Neither the AKP's model of holding municipalities,
Nor can it be entrusted to the structures that today re-stage the same order under the name of “change”.
This country is not for vested interests,
It is a country of millions living by the sweat of their brow.
And our determination is total:
This order will change.
The rights of this country will be handed back to the people.