HALKWEBAuthorsWhat's Left of 2025: Defeat

What's Left of 2025: Defeat

2025 was neither a year of great collapse nor a year of recovery. It was a year of stalling without solving the problems. And again the people were made to pay the price.

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They called 2025 the “Year of the Family”.
“Three children is not enough, let's have five,” they preached.
But they did not specifically ask the most fundamental question:
In what kind of country and under what conditions will these children grow up?

No one was taught how to fish in this country.
An order that would sustain human beings through their own labor was not established.
There was no production, no permanent employment, no secure life.
What was there instead? There was help. There was charity.

They wanted the family to grow but deliberately ignored deepening poverty.
Because in this order, the dependent family was acceptable, not the strong individual.
They said the economy is recovering in 2025.
I didn't see it on the street.
Life has become more expensive. They said salaries have increased but purchasing power has fallen.
The minimum wage has ceased to be a means of subsistence; it has become just a figure.
People have realized a very clear reality this year:
Work no longer lifts you out of poverty.

“Family is sacred,” they said.
But they did not create the conditions to sustain the family.
Femicide has not decreased.
Children could not be protected.
Child brides are not over.
The same word was used every time: “isolated.”
But what happened was not isolated; it was systemic.

As for the issue of migration...
In 2025, this was not honestly discussed either.
There was loud nationalism, but no concrete, realistic solution was produced.
There was a deep silence.
Because if a solution was discussed, responsibility would have to be taken.

For young people, 2025 was a heavy year.
He's gone.
The one who stayed looked for ways to leave.
No one was convinced that they could stay and build a life in this country.

In politics, it was the usual picture:
It was not about solving problems, but about saving the day.

So 2025;
It was neither a year of great collapse nor a year of recovery.
It has been a year of stalling without solving problems.
And the people were again made to pay the price.

Now I propose the following:
Let go of the Year of the Family fairy tales, let go of the ten-year plans.
Let 2026 be the registration year of the collapse of refugees into the demographic structure of this country and the political and moral bankruptcy of those who govern it.

Because this country has to face the facts, not the figures.

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