“He who chases two rabbits cannot catch them both.”
- Confucius
The government in Turkey is no longer doing politics; it is forcibly trying to hold together policies that simultaneously frustrate each other. What emerges is not a “balance” but a system of open contradiction.
On the one hand, there are messages of “détente”, “normalization” and sometimes even “peace”.
On the other hand, investigations, dismissals and trustee practices against opposition municipalities continue.
To pretend that this is not a contradiction is no longer just a political choice; it is a denial of reality.
The government led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is sending a message to international markets by calling for a “return to rationality” in the economy. But at the same time, at home, it continues with practices that stretch the law and make the judiciary look like an extension of politics. It ignores this simple fact:
In a country where the law does not inspire confidence, no economic program can inspire confidence.
But the real harsh picture emerges in this selective approach to nature and citizens.
Olive groves are being opened for mining.
Forests are being allocated to energy projects.
Bays that are natural protected areas are being opened for development.
All this is done in the name of “public interest”.
At the same time, the same state appears elsewhere with a completely different understanding of law:
The small structure built by the villagers is being demolished.
The hobby garden is being destroyed.
The modest living spaces that people have built with their own labor are being destroyed overnight.
There is no gray area here anymore. The issue is clear:
If the law is flexible for big capital and hardens for citizens, this is not a rule of law.
This is a regime of choice.
Today the government thinks it can do everything at the same time:
That you can talk about peace and increase repression at the same time,
that you can claim to protect nature and market it at the same time,
can both reassure investors and render the law moot.
But that's not how the real world works.
A politics that carries so many contradictions at the same time will eventually collapse under its own weight.
Confucius' words here are no longer an exhortation, but a diagnosis:
The government is not chasing two rabbits.
He runs after whatever he finds.
And this disorganization is no longer a strategy, but a loss of control.
The result is obvious:
There is no trust in the law.
Economic stability is fragile.
The sense of justice in society has been damaged.
Because it is no longer about wrong politics.
It is a matter of a deliberate and willful order of contradictions.
And this order has an end.