{"id":281719,"date":"2026-01-20T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281719"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:16:20","slug":"this-is-not-the-cheese-we-eat-this-is-blatant-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/this-is-not-the-cheese-we-eat-this-is-blatant-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not Cheese We're Eating, It's a Blatant Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, it is not difficult to find good quality cheese in Turkey; it is almost impossible.<br \/>\nBecause most of what is on the stalls is not cheese, but the product of an organized deception.<\/p>\n<p>Here's the truth: many commercially available<strong> \u201ccheese\u201d<\/strong>, it's not made from milk.<br \/>\nMargarine, starch, bone meal and old returned cheeses are used. No milk. But there is a label, a name, a region.<\/p>\n<p>This fraud is no longer a secret.<\/p>\n<p>20 ton margarinle 45 ton peynir \u00fcretiliyor. Bir gram s\u00fct kullan\u0131lmadan. Margarinin %90\u2019l\u0131k kuru maddesi suyla \u015fi\u015firiliyor, i\u00e7ine ni\u015fasta kat\u0131l\u0131yor, iade peynirler \u00f6\u011f\u00fct\u00fcl\u00fcp tekrar piyasaya s\u00fcr\u00fcl\u00fcyor. Sonra da buna <strong>\u201ccheese\u201d<\/strong> and they are fed to people.<\/p>\n<p>Question:<br \/>\nDoes this country really have so much milk?<br \/>\nNo, it is not. If all cheeses were made from milk, Turkey would not have enough milk.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody cares about that.<\/p>\n<p>And here's what's even worse:<br \/>\nThe perpetrators of this fraud are very conscious. They use the name of whichever cheese is famous. Erzincan tulum, Siverek cheese, Bergama tulum, Izmir tulum...<br \/>\nDifferent names, same content. They are all uniform, fraudulent, fake products.<\/p>\n<p>But the real figures are obvious:<br \/>\n1 kilo of tulum cheese requires 10 kilos of milk.<br \/>\nAdd to this labor, taxes and operating costs and the price is clear.<br \/>\nIf a cheese is much below this price, know this: That cheese is not cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Even natural white cheese requires at least 7 kilos of milk.<br \/>\nIt is not the consumer who cannot make such a simple calculation; the real problem is the control mechanism that turns a blind eye.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, these things were localized.<br \/>\nToday, it has spread from Afyon to Kayseri, from Konya to Sivas.<br \/>\nBecause there are no measures. Because there is no punishment. Because even those caught continue on their way.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what's more painful?<br \/>\nYou can see this even at home.<\/p>\n<p>Put a piece of cheese in a glass bowl and pour vinegar over it.<br \/>\nHold on.<br \/>\nIf the water turns white, what you are eating is a product of chemistry that has been likened to cheese.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just a food issue.<br \/>\nThis is a matter of public health.<br \/>\nIt is a matter of lies being put on the tables of children, the elderly, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>And we're still <strong>\u201cwhy do we get sick?\u201d<\/strong> we ask.<\/p>\n<p>The question is this:<\/p>\n<p>How long will this fraud be ignored?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many \u201ccheeses\u201d on the market are not made from milk.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":281720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-281719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281719","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281721,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281719\/revisions\/281721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}