{"id":280168,"date":"2025-11-30T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=280168"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:51:46","slug":"a-nation-caught-between-the-blind-and-the-ungrateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/a-nation-caught-between-the-blind-and-the-ungrateful\/","title":{"rendered":"A Country Stuck Between Blind and Ungrateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between a blind person who thinks what he hears is true and an ungrateful person who does not believe what he sees?<br \/>\nWhere is the questioning, where is the suspicion, where is the research, where is the investigation, where is the scrutiny in this climate of struggle woven with urban legends of the right and left layers?<br \/>\nOne is a prisoner of crazy videos, the other a prisoner of clich\u00e9d slogans...<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-280169\" src=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kor.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kor-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kor-696x1044.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For example, did Naz\u0131m Hikmet and Necip Faz\u0131l really stay in the same ward?<br \/>\nWhile Necip Faz\u0131l's gambling debts were covered from the slush fund of the period, was it too difficult to give the son of Mehmet Akif, the author of our National Anthem, a job and a house?<br \/>\nI ask you right-wing brothers...<\/p>\n<p>Leftist intellectuals who remained silent when Sabahattin Ali was murdered by an unknown assailant...<br \/>\nThe ones who were so desperate that day are now talking about justice.<br \/>\nIn fact, we live in a dilemma and hypocrisy.<br \/>\nWe hide our own hypocrisy with the dirt from the window of the other neighborhood.<br \/>\nBut it is our own window that is dirty!<\/p>\n<p>Even a child born at nine months is not born this fast.<br \/>\nBut a five-month presidency, a 38-point lead and first place intoxication.<br \/>\nIn fact, the legacy of the Halil Ibrahim Table of 48 points in the 2023 presidential election is being eaten.<br \/>\nIs it so hard to thank the leader who left the legacy?<br \/>\nSo how did those ten points disappear?<br \/>\nDon't have the courage to hold them to account?<\/p>\n<p>Is this leftist sensitivity?<br \/>\nIs this being Che Guevara?<br \/>\nIs this your love for Nazim Hikmet?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it's nice to listen to the glowing rails in \u201dWhite Darkness\" while sipping whiskey...<br \/>\nBut have you ever felt the pain of a poet who has been torn from his homeland and sentenced to exile in that comfort?<\/p>\n<p>Where is solidarity now, masters, friends, friends?<br \/>\nWhere are the contractors who financed these meaningless rallies?<\/p>\n<p>In the 2023 elections, where did all this money go and why didn't you spend it on getting voters to the polls in the second round?<br \/>\nA man cast his vote and left. Someone covered the cost for the sake of the cause.<br \/>\nBut it was hard for the elitist leftist rich in the so-called strongholds of the left to leave the resort!<br \/>\nThe presidency was lost by a margin of nearly two million, while fancy ladies were enjoying themselves on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever blame yourself?<br \/>\nDo you feel an ounce of regret?<br \/>\nNo way!<\/p>\n<p>The leftist intellectual who slams Mr. K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu for taking a picture with \u00dcmit \u00d6zda\u011f!<br \/>\nWhy don't you speak out against those who welcomed many people, including A.B., who did not vote for K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, with red carpets?<br \/>\nWhere's your famous shrill voice?<br \/>\nYou have no place to sleep!<\/p>\n<p>With leftists like you, this country will not survive.<br \/>\nAnd it cannot be saved...<\/p>\n<p>How many times Mr. Kemal, the \u201cveteran leader\u201d, has said and warned that the road cannot be walked with the wastrels who play Ataturkism at raki tables...<br \/>\nAnd he was always right!<\/p>\n<p>Don't get caught up in the perception of those who don't know how to get votes from whom and how, and who know they will lose, my leftist brother!<br \/>\nIf this is going to happen, it will happen again with K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.<br \/>\nUnite around your 48.5% leader, while the road is close...<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise this train will run away too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between a blind person who thinks what he hears is true and an ungrateful person who does not believe what he sees?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":280170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[15],"class_list":{"0":"post-280168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-chp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280171,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280168\/revisions\/280171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}