The collapse of a country does not happen sometimes with a tank, sometimes with a coup, sometimes with a war.
\nSometimes with a grocery receipt.<\/p>\n
This is exactly what is happening in Turkey today.
\nA quiet, slow but systematic impoverishment operation.<\/p>\n
The comparison made by British journalist Lizzie Porter was in fact an international confirmation of the humiliation that millions of people experience every day at the checkout.
\nThe basic grocery basket in Istanbul is more expensive than in London.<\/p>\n
In the past, if this sentence had been an opposition slogan, the ruling media would have broadcast it for days as \u201can operation to discredit Turkey\u201d.
\nNow the numbers directly shout the truth:
\nIn Turkey, people live at world prices but try to survive on third world salaries.<\/p>\n
Even more striking is this:
\nThis is no longer a temporary crisis.
\nThis is the economic character of the new regime.<\/p>\n
Because inflation in Turkey is no longer just the result of economic failure; it has become the main tool of the governance model.
\nThanks to high inflation, wages are eroding, savings are eroding, the middle class is eroding, the power of appeal is eroding.<\/p>\n
A society's resistance reflex is broken by hunger.
\nThis is what is happening today.<\/p>\n
In the past, you used to buy a house with your pension.
\nNow you cannot fill a grocery cart with a pension.
\nThe minimum wage used to be called \u201cbelow the subsistence line\u201d.
\nNow it is even below the hunger line.<\/p>\n
But the same sentences are still on the screens:
\n\u201cThe economy is growing.\u201d
\n\u201cExports are breaking records.\u201d
\n\u201cTurkey is on the rise.\u201d<\/p>\n
So who is rising?<\/p>\n
Citizens who shop at the checkout with less and less product?
\nA store employee who can't keep up with his staff due to changing labels?
\nThe officer who looks at the credit card limit after the 15th?<\/p>\n
No, no, no.<\/p>\n
The Falcons;
\nthose who transfer wealth from high inflation,
\nthose who thrive in the triangle of interest-euro-ruble-tender,
\nthose who take advantage of the crisis.<\/p>\n
Because in this system, inflation is not a malfunction; it is the mechanism that moves income distribution upwards.<\/p>\n
Let us be very clear:
\nToday, market prices in Turkey are not just economic data.
\nThese prices are also an X-ray of political morality.<\/p>\n
If meat is a luxury in a country,
\ncoffee becomes inaccessible,
\nif child nutrition is collapsing the family budget,
\nthere, not only the economy but also the state mind is bankrupt.<\/p>\n
And you know what the most tragic part is?<\/p>\n
In this country, people are no longer subjected to poverty, but to the normalization of poverty.<\/p>\n
This is what they keep telling people:
\n\u201cLife is expensive in Europe too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, but in Europe people live on their salaries.
\nPeople in Turkey breathe with credit cards.<\/p>\n
INFLATION IS NOT AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM, BUT A FORM OF GOVERNANCE OF THE NEW REGIME<\/strong><\/p>\n Turkey no longer talks about inflation. Waking up in the morning with a raise, Here is the regime's greatest success: Because societies in constant crisis stop reacting after a while. Most people in Turkey today no longer want to \u201clive well\u201d. This psychological collapse is more severe than the economic picture.<\/p>\n Pay attention: Why?<\/p>\n Because high inflation allows governments to collect invisible taxes. This is the most sophisticated wealth transfer model of the modern era.<\/p>\n In Turkey, citizens are no longer just working; they are also forced to carry their money, which is constantly losing value. What's more frightening is this: Because when people don't get along, the character of society changes.<\/p>\n Debt normalizes. As the economic crisis prolongs in a country, not only money loses value, but also conscience.<\/p>\n And this is where the discourse of power comes into play: But the reality is much simpler: The Central Bank announces targets, the market does not believe it. Because the data in the citizen's pocket cannot be manipulated.<\/p>\n People believe the market, not TurkStat. And that receipt is no longer an economic document, Never before has society been so intensively turned into a \u201ccheap labor depot\u201d. The government is still asking for patience.<\/p>\n But patience is required in times of temporary hardship. And the economic situation in Turkey today is not the result of wrong policies, but of long-term political arrogance.<\/p>\n IT IS NOT THE TURKISH LIRA THAT HAS BEEN CHEAPENED, BUT HUMAN LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n A country does not collapse just because its currency depreciates. This is exactly what is happening in Turkey today.<\/p>\n It is no longer just about market prices. Because today in this system; That is why people in Turkey are not only becoming poorer; they are also losing their sense of justice.<\/p>\n Let us be very clear: Every day you get a raise, Because at some point hunger ceases to be an economic issue; it turns into a crisis of political legitimacy.<\/p>\n The biggest problem of the government in Turkey today is not inflation; it is loss of confidence. Because citizens see this: That is why there is so much anger in society.<\/p>\n So what is the solution?<\/p>\n The solution is not just to raise interest rates. First of all, the state needs to manage the economy with reality, not propaganda.<\/p>\n Without ending the crisis of confidence in the TurkStat, Hot money comes to a country but confidence does not.<\/p>\n Second, Turkey needs to return to a production economy.<\/p>\n The era of growth with concrete is over. Before agriculture is declared a strategic sector again, The reason why we eat more expensive meat than the UK today is not just inflation; it is the collapse of production.<\/p>\n The third and most critical issue: While the wealth of a handful of people multiplies, Without changing the tax system, Today, the salaried worker does not just get by; And perhaps most importantly: Because if institutions in a country are not managed with competence, not loyalty, The crisis we see on supermarket shelves today is actually the result of years of institutional collapse.<\/p>\n The last word is this:<\/p>\n Turkey is no longer a cheap country. 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\nWe live in inflation.<\/p>\n
\nchanging the label at noon,
\nWe have become a society whose evening salary is melting.
\nAnd this has become so commonplace that people are no longer surprised by the price; they just give up.<\/p>\n
\nTo get society used to it while slowly impoverishing it.<\/p>\n
\nFirst he gives up meat,
\nthen vacation,
\nthen from the car,
\nand then I stopped dreaming...<\/p>\n
\nHe just wants to see the end of the month.<\/p>\n
\nGovernments used to try to reduce inflation.
\nToday, inflation is managed.
\nIn other words, it is not being resolved; it is being maintained in a controlled manner.<\/p>\n
\nYou get a salary increase, but the market doubles it.
\nYou think you are receiving a salary, but in fact your purchasing power has been quietly transferred.<\/p>\n
\nSavers are penalized.
\nThose on fixed incomes are being crushed.
\nThose who manipulate win, not those who produce.<\/p>\n
\nThis economic decay is now feeding moral decay.<\/p>\n
\nOpportunism becomes normalized.
\nTax evasion is considered \u201cvigilantism\u201d.
\nTorpil becomes a \u201cnecessity\u201d.
\nLuxury becomes a sign of success.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cForeign powers.\u201d
\n\u201cGlobal crisis.\u201d
\n\u201cWar environment.\u201d
\n\u201cThe interest lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn Turkey, the economy is no longer governed by science, but by propaganda.<\/p>\n
\nThe minister talks, the citizen looks at the market price.
\nOfficial inflation is announced, but people know the real rate in their own kitchens.<\/p>\n
\nHe does not look at the economic management; he looks at the receipt in the cash register.<\/p>\n
\nIt is the bill of life that the government has imposed on the people.<\/p>\n
\nYoung people want to flee the country.
\nThe doctor is leaving.
\nThe engineer is leaving.
\nThe software developer is leaving.
\nBecause people now see that they are losing not only their salaries but also their future.<\/p>\n
\nTwenty years of governance crisis can no longer be called a \u201cpolicy of patience\u201d.
\nThis is a direct inability to govern.<\/p>\n
\nIt collapses when human life is cheapened.<\/p>\n
\nIt is about the devaluation of a society's labor.
\nDevaluation of the diploma.
\nDevaluation of the sweat of the brow.
\nEven living honestly is economically penalized.<\/p>\n
\nnot the producer but the link,
\nnot working but close to the system,
\nmanipulation has been favored, not saving.<\/p>\n
\nNo society can be sustained by constant humiliation.<\/p>\n
\ncalculating your child's lunchbox,
\nliving in fear of the landlord,
\nYou cannot keep telling millions of people who are choosing between pensions and medicine to \u201cbe patient\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nPeople don't believe the figures anymore.
\nHe does not believe in the stated goals.
\nHe doesn't believe in the fairy tale that it will be better tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\nAusterity is always called for by the people,
\nbut privileged groups never sit at the sacrifice table.<\/p>\n
\nNot just an interim pay raise.
\nBecause Turkey's crisis is no longer technical; it is structural and moral.<\/p>\n
\nBefore the Central Bank becomes fully independent,
\nwithout a predictable legal system,
\nnobody invests for the long term.<\/p>\n
\nProsperity cannot be produced through a tender economy.
\nWith short-term exchange rate pressure, people may vote for a few months, but the country cannot develop.<\/p>\n
\nwithout protecting the farmer,
\nwithout food planning,
\nMarket prices will never fall in Turkey.<\/p>\n
\nIncome distribution in Turkey needs to be reorganized.<\/p>\n
\nA system in which millions live on credit cards cannot be called an \u201ceconomic success\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nwithout reducing indirect taxes,
\nThis crisis will not end until the model that puts the burden on wage earners instead of luxury consumption is abandoned.<\/p>\n
\nbut also bears the entire burden of the system.<\/p>\n
\nTurkey needs to return to the idea of merit.<\/p>\n
\ninflation is not only in prices,
\nIt also starts in the memory of the state.<\/p>\n
\nIt has become a country whose people have been cheapened.<\/p>\n
\nand condemn its own citizens to world prices,
\ncannot survive indefinitely by settling for local wages.<\/p>\n
\nis not the first economy to collapse,
\nit becomes an established political story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"