\u201cIs the phrase \u201dthe peasant is the master of the nation\" just a nostalgic motto hanging on the walls today, or is it still a state policy?<\/p>\n
The answer is bitter:
\nIn 2025 Turkey, the peasant is no longer the master of the nation, nor is he on the agenda of the Parliament.<\/p>\n
Because that peasant, the so-called master, is no longer in the Assembly.
\nIf it exists, it has no voice. It has no authority. It has no decision.<\/p>\n
Who is in Parliament and Who is not?<\/p>\n
600 members of parliament...
\nYou look at the occupational distribution:<\/p>\n
Business person 158<\/p>\n
Lawyer: 122<\/p>\n
Academician 42<\/p>\n
Educator: 37<\/p>\n
Economist: 33<\/p>\n
Doctor: 32<\/p>\n
What about the farmer?<\/p>\n
Agricultural engineer?
\nVet?
\nCooperative?<\/p>\n
It's almost non-existent.<\/p>\n
This is no longer a coincidence.
\nThis is the deliberate exclusion of agriculture from politics.
\nThis is the exclusion of the producer from the table.<\/p>\n
Today, there are those in Parliament who talk about diesel fuel not by the liter, but by the tender file.
\nThere are those who know fertilizer not by its bag but by its screen graphics.
\nThose who have never gotten soil on their shoes are writing agricultural policy.<\/p>\n
How many people know how much a crop costs in the field?
\nHow many MPs understand what the floor price means in the farmer's life?<\/p>\n
The answer is clear:
\nVery, very little.<\/p>\n
Because politics is no longer done in the village room, but on plaza floors.<\/p>\n
Why was Agriculture Eliminated from Politics?<\/p>\n
Ataturk period:<\/p>\n
The farmer was sacred.<\/p>\n
Production was state policy.<\/p>\n
Cooperatives were widespread.<\/p>\n
Ziraat Bank was the farmers' bank.<\/p>\n
What happened today?<\/p>\n
Ziraat Bank has become a fund for big financial circles, not the sweat of the farmers' brow.
\nAgriculture has become a window dressing that is forgotten 365 days a year and remembered only from election to election.<\/p>\n
Farmers are at foreclosure gates,
\nFields are under debt,
\nYoung people are fleeing the village,
\nThe earth is orphaned...<\/p>\n
But the Parliament does not hear this cry.<\/p>\n
The peasant continues to produce but is not represented.
\nThe unrepresented producer is left alone.
\nLeft alone, the producer becomes poorer.
\nThe impoverished producer stops producing.<\/p>\n
The end of this chain is obvious: Food crisis. Dependence on imports. National security deficit.<\/p>\n
But the Parliament is still watching.<\/p>\n
If there are no villagers in the Assembly, it is not the Assembly of the nation.<\/p>\n
A politics that forgets agriculture is cutting the vein that sustains the nation.<\/p>\n
The question to be asked today is this:<\/p>\n
Is the peasant still the master of this nation, or is he a figurehead abandoned to poverty, debt and fate?<\/p>\n
The answer to this question will determine not only agriculture but also the future of Turkey.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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