A bomb will fall on Ankara too

On June 7, Mahfi Eğilmez, and subsequently Hasan Yazıcı on June 16 in reference to that piece, wrote about Turkey's recent period.

They briefly described the state of the bureaucracy, the judiciary, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), and the military during the Özal era.

They analyzed why we have reached this state.

It was very well done.

I benefited from it quite a bit.

Let me add one more point, which I believe is being overlooked.

With the Second Industrial Revolution, which began with the invention of electricity in the 1850s, settled communities dependent on agriculture began an offensive toward the cities where factories were located.

They transitioned from a philosophy of "let tomorrow take care of itself" to an era of planned living.

Because a salary was guaranteed.

They moved from land-based production to factory-based production with guaranteed income, unaffected by weather conditions.

In other words, the nightmare of managing the risk of weather conditions suitable for barley and wheat disappeared.

The villagers also quite liked this risk-free, uninterrupted, salaried work system.

They also gained social rights such as insurance and the right to strike.

And they enjoyed it to the fullest.

As stories of comfortable life in the city reached the villages very quickly, migration accelerated.

The lifestyle that flourished in the ghettos established on the outskirts of the city, which was also the subject of the film 'Düttürü Dünya', naturally deeply affected the urban and literate segments as well.

The mediocre rural cultural hegemony that gripped Londoners in the 1870s took hold of Ankara in the 1970s.

What happened in Liverpool happened in Trabzon, and what happened in Manchester happened in İzmir.

What happened to New York, of course, also happened to Istanbul.

We are already reading about what happened to Adana on the third pages of newspapers.

The film 'Çiçek Abbas' is, of course, not just a dispute between two minibus drivers.

Land grabbing and zoning theft coincide with these periods.

In short, how else could the political environment, shaped by the cancer created by migration, have been?

After all, presidents were elected by "votes," and those votes were cast by the villagers who fled the land and took refuge in the factory.

The voter, or the migrant, needed to have water and electricity connected to the illegal shanty house they built.

When the established order failed to understand this, the cancer progressed much faster.

With the earthquake that devastated our 11 provinces and bankrupted our treasury, the effect of the cancer became clearer.

For those who understand, of course.