{"id":282702,"date":"2026-02-15T04:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=282702"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:11:20","slug":"ciragan-palace-wedding-school-and-the-morality-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/ciragan-palace-wedding-school-and-the-morality-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciragan Palace Wedding, School and the Morality of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was much talked about for a while...<br \/>\nThe wedding of Cavit \u00c7a\u011flar's daughter and Mehmet Emin Hattat's son. Venue: \u00c7\u0131ra\u011fan. Number of guests: One thousand people. Money spent: Tongues wagging.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately the classic sentence came:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt would have been better if they had built a school.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I said the same thing then and I stand by it today:<br \/>\nNo, no, no, no, no. That wedding was a school. But a school of economics.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was not just about two young people getting married.<br \/>\nThe city worked from the morning that day.<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred couples means five hundred hair appointments.<br \/>\nThe manicurist made money.<br \/>\nThe taxi driver made money.<br \/>\nThe dry cleaners made money.<br \/>\nThe jeweler made a sale.<br \/>\nThe silversmith did business.<br \/>\nFlorist, organization company, sound, lighting, waiter, waitress, cook, security...<br \/>\nOvernight, hundreds of households lost bread.<\/p>\n<p>The circulation of money is not immoral.<br \/>\nMoney that does not circulate produces immoral results.<\/p>\n<p>We like to belittle special occasions.<br \/>\nValentine's Day, Mother's Day, weddings...<br \/>\n\u201cWe say \u201dwaste\".<br \/>\nIn those days, the system breathes.<\/p>\n<p>Economy is not concrete; it is circulation.<br \/>\nIf money doesn't circulate, production stops.<br \/>\nIf production stops, salaries cannot be paid.<br \/>\nIf the salaries are not paid, concordatos start.<br \/>\nLayoffs come.<br \/>\nThis is the picture we are experiencing today.<\/p>\n<p>Saving can be a virtue for the individual.<br \/>\nBut you cannot manage the national economy by saying \u201cdon't spend\u201d.<br \/>\nMaybe you can make up for inflation by cutting credit cards...<br \/>\nBut if you stop the wheel, the makeup will run.<\/p>\n<p>A wedding is not comparable to a school.<br \/>\nBut let's not forget this:<\/p>\n<p>Maybe two schools can be built with the VAT, withholding tax and income tax from that wedding.<br \/>\nBecause economics is not mathematics, it is circulation.<\/p>\n<p>If you put money under the pillow, you will not gain confidence.<br \/>\nTrust comes when the wheel turns.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a lavish wedding nurtures a more humble reality than one might think:<br \/>\nHot money going into the homes of working people.<\/p>\n<p>Let's criticize waste, yes.<br \/>\nBut let's not penalize production and circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Because the economy starts in the wedding hall;<br \/>\nIt should not end at the concordat table.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a lavish wedding feeds a more humble reality than one might think: The hot money that enters the working man's home.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":282703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282702","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\/282702","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=282702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282704,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282702\/revisions\/282704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}