{"id":283620,"date":"2026-03-12T05:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=283620"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:22:30","slug":"the-country-cannot-be-governed-with-a-halo-when-there-is-grieving-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/the-country-cannot-be-governed-with-a-halo-when-there-is-grieving-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"You can't run a country with a hala when there are tears in the neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logic or Halay?<br \/>\nA sentence from the textbook:<br \/>\n\u201cLogic takes you from point A to point B.<br \/>\nHalay everywhere.\u201d<br \/>\n- Mahmut Tuncer<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a single sentence says more than pages of analysis.<br \/>\nIt is hard to find a better summation of the state of our education system and even our politics today.<br \/>\nThis is exactly what happens when spectacle, perception and the reflex to save the day prevail in areas where logic, science and reason should be the guides.<br \/>\nA drift that extends from education to politics...<br \/>\nWhat is wrong in politics today is not just bad decisions.<br \/>\nIt is also part of a communication strategy that plays with voter perceptions and resembles psychological warfare techniques.<br \/>\nThe direction of the debate is constantly being changed.<br \/>\nThe agenda is constantly being shifted.<br \/>\nYes...<br \/>\nPolitics is really polluted.<br \/>\nBecause of vested interests, self-interest and the love of seats.<br \/>\nYou know that happy minority in politics...<br \/>\nThat structure is now moving towards its end.<br \/>\nBut as he leaves, he seems to be preparing to send the country off with the famous ballad of those who are leaving.<br \/>\nFor nearly two and a half years, the country's agenda has been strangely locked on a single point:<br \/>\nEkrem Imamoglu.<br \/>\nAs if the main agenda of politics is not the country's economic problems...<br \/>\nAs if there is no inflation.<br \/>\nAs if there is no unemployment, no livelihood problems, no rent crisis...<br \/>\nEvery debate comes full circle<br \/>\nWhat Ekrem Imamoglu did<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nIt depends on what \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel cannot do.<br \/>\nHowever, the real agenda of this country is very different.<br \/>\nPeople have a livelihood problem.<br \/>\nTradesmen are struggling to survive.<br \/>\nThe civil servant's salary is eroding.<br \/>\nPensioners are fighting for survival.<br \/>\nAnd most importantly...<br \/>\nThere is a section that has been left to be forgotten:<br \/>\nPeople.<br \/>\nI mean you...<br \/>\nI am...<br \/>\nThose of us who are trying to live in this country.<br \/>\nLooking at the picture ahead, it seems that the processes running through the trials will remain at the center of politics for at least two more years.<br \/>\nAgenda management, court proceedings and perception operations will be used to prolong this process.<br \/>\nBut this is not the way things should be.<br \/>\nThe fate of a country;<br \/>\nprolonged court processes to protect the government's comfort zone,<br \/>\nto the files held on the opposition<br \/>\nand should not be sacrificed to the pamphlets kept on the shelves of the Parliament.<br \/>\nAs justice is delayed, trust erodes.<br \/>\nAs trust erodes, the state weakens.<br \/>\nSo what needs to be done is actually very simple but vital:<br \/>\nThe trial must be quick.<br \/>\nIt must be transparent.<br \/>\nAnd it should be equal for everyone.<br \/>\nOnly then can trust be restored in society.<br \/>\nBecause where logic is lost, politics turns into a hala.<br \/>\nBut a country...<br \/>\nIt cannot be ruled by an aunt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the picture ahead, it seems that the processes running through the trials will remain at the center of politics for at least two more 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