{"id":280752,"date":"2025-12-29T03:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=280752"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:08:30","slug":"whats-left-of-2025-is-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/whats-left-of-2025-is-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"What's Left of 2025: Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They called 2025 the \u201cYear of the Family\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThree children is not enough, let's have five,\u201d they preached.<br \/>\nBut they did not specifically ask the most fundamental question:<br \/>\nIn what kind of country and under what conditions will these children grow up?<\/p>\n<p>No one was taught how to fish in this country.<br \/>\nAn order that would sustain human beings through their own labor was not established.<br \/>\nThere was no production, no permanent employment, no secure life.<br \/>\nWhat was there instead? There was help. There was charity.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted the family to grow but deliberately ignored deepening poverty.<br \/>\nBecause in this order, the dependent family was acceptable, not the strong individual.<br \/>\nThey said the economy is recovering in 2025.<br \/>\nI didn't see it on the street.<br \/>\nLife has become more expensive. They said salaries have increased but purchasing power has fallen.<br \/>\nThe minimum wage has ceased to be a means of subsistence; it has become just a figure.<br \/>\nPeople have realized a very clear reality this year:<br \/>\nWork no longer lifts you out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily is sacred,\u201d they said.<br \/>\nBut they did not create the conditions to sustain the family.<br \/>\nFemicide has not decreased.<br \/>\nChildren could not be protected.<br \/>\nChild brides are not over.<br \/>\nThe same word was used every time: \u201cisolated.\u201d<br \/>\nBut what happened was not isolated; it was systemic.<\/p>\n<p>As for the issue of migration...<br \/>\nIn 2025, this was not honestly discussed either.<br \/>\nThere was loud nationalism, but no concrete, realistic solution was produced.<br \/>\nThere was a deep silence.<br \/>\nBecause if a solution was discussed, responsibility would have to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>For young people, 2025 was a heavy year.<br \/>\nHe's gone.<br \/>\nThe one who stayed looked for ways to leave.<br \/>\nNo one was convinced that they could stay and build a life in this country.<\/p>\n<p>In politics, it was the usual picture:<br \/>\nIt was not about solving problems, but about saving the day.<\/p>\n<p>So 2025;<br \/>\nIt was neither a year of great collapse nor a year of recovery.<br \/>\nIt has been a year of stalling without solving problems.<br \/>\nAnd the people were again made to pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>Now I propose the following:<br \/>\nLet go of the Year of the Family fairy tales, let go of the ten-year plans.<br \/>\nLet 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.<\/p>\n<p>Because this country has to face the facts, not the figures.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":280753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280752","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=280752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280755,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280752\/revisions\/280755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}