A politics that excludes science, reason and social responsibility overshadows state wisdom. What Turkey needs is not the shallowness that mistakes populism for social welfare, but a founding will that puts public reason and structural justice at the center, guided by solidarism.<\/p>\n
Turkey has long been experiencing a crisis of reason and principle rather than a crisis of governance. The debates are not based on principles but on allegiances; the agenda divides society instead of uniting it. However, the issue is not the existence of the state, but the quality of the public reason that guides it.<\/p>\n
The picture that emerges today shows that a hybrid liberalism that combines the discourse of a controlled market with conservative rhetoric has reached its limits. The state's sphere of public responsibility has shrunk, and politics has experienced an erosion in its capacity to establish social balance. Social policy has moved away from being a rights-based institutional structure and has been squeezed into the framework of periodical practices.<\/p>\n
Solidarism is not a superficial practice of mutual aid. Real solidarity is an understanding of the social contract in which citizens act with a sense of responsibility towards each other and the state.<\/p>\n
Populism only makes sense within this solidarist framework. Because populism, with its class-neutral egalitarian approach, represents the public balance against the power relations unlimited by the market. Social welfare is secured not through charity, but through the principle of structural justice.
\nThe silence observed in society today is a sign of deep fatigue and a search for direction rather than a strong consent. What will repair this rupture is a constitutive political will based on the public interest.<\/p>\n
Populism does not propose an approach that excludes economic life. This principle, which should be interpreted as Turkish solidarism, places capital on the grounds of public responsibility rather than an unlimited area of privilege.<\/p>\n
In an order where the influence of economic power over the political sphere increases, the regulatory role of public authority becomes decisive. The aim is not to exclude capital, but to establish an economic order that protects production, competition and social balance together.
\nThis approach ensures the strengthening of the middle class, increased productive capacity and lasting social stability.<\/p>\n
A constitutive populist will manifests its impact through concrete institutional arrangements.<\/p>\n
Economic Assurance:<\/strong> Preventive Model in Health:<\/strong> Equal Opportunity in Education:<\/strong> This narrowing, which is discussed at the theoretical level, takes on a concrete appearance in daily life. Rather than the existence of social supports, this picture shows that the current income system does not provide sufficient welfare to large segments of society. If the working, the retired and the young meet at the same affordable table, it is not the existence of restaurants that should be questioned, but the economic conditions that create this need.<\/p>\n Populism cannot be reduced to the provision of affordable services. Social support is necessary and valuable, but the lasting solution lies in establishing a system where citizens do not need constant support.<\/p>\n A true populist state is not content with managing the queues of people in need; it produces permanent solutions that eliminate the economic and social grounds that give rise to these queues. Instead of a structure that makes citizens dependent on aid, it builds a public order that empowers them with their rights.<\/p>\n The real power of the state is measured by the environment of justice and trust it establishes at home. When social trust is weakened, the permanence of achievements in other areas is limited. Solidarism is a model of institutional equilibrium that combines economic balance, legal security and social peace.<\/p>\n A strong state does not exist through its rhetoric in the face of crises, but through the order of justice it establishes before crises arise. Social legitimacy is strengthened not by temporary practices, but by permanent and egalitarian institutions.<\/p>\n Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk's populism is not a social policy proposal to manage poverty. It is a constitutive understanding of the state that aims to eliminate the structural inequalities that produce poverty.<\/p>\n Today, the fact that populism has become synonymous with social support practices poses the risk of narrowing this constitutive meaning. However, beyond temporary welfare measures, populism is the name of a permanent order of justice based on the dignity of the citizen.<\/p>\n Therefore, the issue is not the expansion of certain services, but the founding principle on which the state mind is based.<\/p>\n Economic stability, social trust and institutional resilience can only be achieved by rebalancing the relationship between the market, the state and the citizen on the basis of this founding principle. What is needed today is not a new order of assistance, but a reorientation of the founding principle to the state mind.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is needed today is not a new order of assistance, but a reorientation of the founding principle to the state mind.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":282738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-282737","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\/282737","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=282737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282739,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282737\/revisions\/282739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe pension and social security system should be transparent and predictable, distributing a fair share of growth. Pensions should be seen as an honorable reward for a long working life.<\/p>\n
\nPrimary health care services should be transformed into a structure that protects and strengthens public health, not just treats it.<\/p>\n
\nThe state should guarantee quality education in every region and support scientific production and intellectual life with a merit-based teacher policy.<\/p>\nDaily Photo of the Structural Problem<\/h3>\n
\nToday, the \u201cKent Lokantas\u0131\u201d and \u201cSemt Lokantas\u0131\u201d standing on opposite sides of a street reflect the political photograph of the period. The color of the signs is different, but the queue in front of them is the same.<\/p>\nInstitutional Resilience and Social Legitimacy<\/h3>\n
\nIn a system where income justice is eroding and the principle of meritocracy has become moot, resilience can only be achieved through structural reforms.<\/p>\nLoyalty to the Founding Principle<\/h3>\n
\nPopulism is not a social policy preference; it is the founding principle of justice of the Republic.<\/p>\n