{"id":283806,"date":"2026-03-16T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=283806"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:30:16","slug":"assets-or-livestock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/assets-or-livestock\/","title":{"rendered":"Assets or Livestock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Turkey, \u201clivestock\u201d refers to the total number of bovine, ovine and poultry animals in the country.<\/p>\n<p>But not to be confused with the \u201casset declarations\u201d that have occupied the agenda in recent days...<br \/>\nThe \u201cgoods\u201d there are a bit more personal acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>For example;<br \/>\nLike G\u00f6khan G\u00fcnayd\u0131n's years of earnings as an agricultural engineer and similar jobs, which he calls \u201cthe white of my brow\u201d...<br \/>\nSince we are on the subject, let's expand the expectation.<\/p>\n<p>For example;<br \/>\n\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel should also declare his assets.<br \/>\nEven;<br \/>\nAkin Gurlek's assets should also be disclosed.<br \/>\nIt is not enough.<br \/>\nAll mayors serving in Turkey;<br \/>\ndisclose his assets before and after his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>If we are talking about transparency, let it be a start:<br \/>\nMPs should also explain.<\/p>\n<p>For example, let's have the following names as the first ones to announce:<br \/>\nAli Mahir Basarir<br \/>\nVeli Agbaba<br \/>\nCemal Enginyurt<br \/>\nAdnan Beker<br \/>\nUmut Akdogan<br \/>\nBurhanettin Bulut<br \/>\nLet the chain of transparency begin.<\/p>\n<p>As an Agricultural Engineer myself, since \u201cgoods\u201d are being discussed,<br \/>\nLet me bring this a little bit more into my own sphere...<\/p>\n<p>The goods I am going to talk about are a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>Let's look at Turkey's real \u201canimal wealth\u201d.<br \/>\nThese data are usually released by the Turkish Statistical Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the average data of the last years, the picture is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bovine Animals<\/strong><br \/>\nCattle: about 16-17 million<br \/>\nBuffalo: about 180-200 thousand<\/p>\n<p><strong>Small Bovine Animals<\/strong><br \/>\nSheep: about 42-45 million<br \/>\nGoats: about 12-13 million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poultry Animals<\/strong><br \/>\nChicken: approximately 380-400 million<br \/>\nTurkey, goose, duck, etc.: several million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total table<\/strong><br \/>\nCattle: ~17 million<br \/>\nOvine: ~55-58 million<br \/>\nPoultry: ~400 million<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of sheep and goat population.<br \/>\nSo you see...<br \/>\nThere are many \u201cgoods\u201d in Turkey.<br \/>\nBut one is in the stables,<br \/>\nThe other is revealed in the declaration of assets.<br \/>\nWhich one is the most talked about...<br \/>\nnow it's up to your interpretation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye\u2019de \u201cmal\u201d \u00e7ok. Ama biri ah\u0131rlarda,<br \/>\nThe other is revealed in the declaration of assets.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":283807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-283806","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\/283806","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283808,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283806\/revisions\/283808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}