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While overall inflation is falling on paper, it is growing in the kitchen. This is not just a struggle to make ends meet, it is a total meltdown: Not the pensioner, but labor; not the family, but the future is shrinking. While sacrifice is demanded from the people, the privileged continue to grow and the tables continue to shrink.<\/p>\n
Throughout 2025, it was said that \u201cthe backbone of inflation was broken\u201d and presentations were decorated with rosy pictures. The figures heralded a \u201cdownward\u201d trend, but the real destruction was sealed in the kitchen. General inflation rates may have been brought down by the base effect, but when you add the really basic needs to the basket - food, shelter, heating - the picture that emerges is far above the official rates. Citizens' inflation is based on their own pots and pans, not on TurkStat's virtual basket.<\/p>\n
The freshest evidence of this illusion is hidden in the confessions of the economic management itself. In the last months of 2025 \u201cbelow expectations\u201d<\/strong> It is no longer a secret that the announced figures are not a success, but a statistical postponement. The Central Bank Governor's warning to foreign capital groups in London that \u201cJanuary-February inflation will be high\u201d is actually a confession of the facts that were hidden from the public in November and December. This understanding, which, at the behest of TurkStat, has rolled over the figures to the beginning of 2026 in order to close 2025 low, confirms our thesis: Inflation does not end, it is just moved between the calendar leaves. The facts that were hidden in November and postponed in December land like a sledgehammer on the people's tables in January.<\/p>\n There is a fundamental problem of honesty here. On the one hand, T\u00dc\u0130K, the official institution that determines pensions, and on the other hand ENAG, which takes the pulse of the street.<\/p>\n 2025 y\u0131l\u0131 bu devasa makasla kapand\u0131: T\u00dc\u0130K y\u0131l\u0131 %30,9 ile kapatt\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 ilan ederken, soka\u011f\u0131n ger\u00e7ekli\u011fini \u00f6l\u00e7en ENAG %56,1\u2019i g\u00f6steriyordu. \u0130\u015fin en \u00e7arp\u0131c\u0131 k\u0131sm\u0131 ise \u015fudur: Bug\u00fcne kadar ilgili bakanl\u0131klar veya Dezenformasyonla M\u00fccadele Merkezi, ENAG rakamlar\u0131na kar\u015f\u0131 tek bir somut su\u00e7 duyurusunda bulunamad\u0131. Milyonlar\u0131n maa\u015f\u0131n\u0131 do\u011frudan ilgilendiren bu “devasa fark” kar\u015f\u0131s\u0131ndaki sessizlik, asl\u0131nda ENAG rakamlar\u0131n\u0131n z\u0131mnen (\u00fcst\u00fc kapal\u0131) kabul edildi\u011finin en b\u00fcy\u00fck kan\u0131t\u0131d\u0131r. Yalanlayamad\u0131klar\u0131 her rakam, vatanda\u015f\u0131n cebinden \u00e7al\u0131nan hakk\u0131n tescilidir.<\/p>\n This picture is a political choice. On the one hand, there are millions whose salaries are being suppressed, and on the other, the privileged who are feeding off the crisis. If sacrifices were necessary, why did this burden always fall on the same shoulders? Something will happen in 2027, no doubt. But will it be the promised prosperity or a big showdown at the ballot box? By paralyzing the function of democratic control, both groups are not putting fire on the people's tables, but rather consolidating their own political belonging. Those who call themselves journalists or political communicators, but in reality have become the apparatus of this polarized order; remember that just like the numbers on paper, the false reality you have constructed is doomed to hit the hard wall of life.<\/p>\n I'm telling you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Mutfakta hissedilmeyen hi\u00e7bir ucuzluk, vatanda\u015f i\u00e7in ger\u00e7ek de\u011fildir.”<\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":281611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gundem","8":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281610","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281612,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281610\/revisions\/281612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Two Inflation, One Life<\/h3>\n
Whose Sacrifice?<\/h3>\n
\nWhy were the same calls not made to them?
\nThose who operate toll-guaranteed highways and bridges,
\nCity hospitals with patient guarantees,
\nThose who extort money from the public under the name of vehicle inspection. As of early 2026, the price paid for a single vehicle inspection is close to the sweat of a minimum wage earner for a week.<\/p>\nConclusion \/ Warning<\/h3>\n
\n\u201cOld Turkey\u201d<\/strong> with their fairy tales, those who lure the people \u201cPoliticians of the old Turkey\u201d<\/strong> as the government. My warning is not only for the government, but also for the opposition, which only addresses this deep pain of the people with numbers.
\nAnd of course, I am referring to those who suspend their intellectual honesty in cozy studios, detached from the realities of the people. Two types of echo chambers have been constructed here: On the one hand, the status quoist-defensive pens who try to rationalize the government's every step; on the other hand, the actors of asymmetrical criticism who, while rightly criticizing the government, cover the opposition's lack of political vision with a holy silence...<\/p>\n