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What we cannot discuss due to absurd agendas and… What does the staff intelligence of the TSK, which dismissed the lieutenants, think about Trump?

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We are experiencing multiple institutional decay and collapse in the economy, law, and social structure. Whether we look at Turkey's economic data, its democracy, its law, its form of government, its healthcare system, its education system, its pension system, or any field from internal security to external security, I believe we are tumbling down a cliff.  

It doesn't stop there; when I look at what is happening in the world at the same time, even the phrase "falling down a cliff" feels insufficient. The first quarter of the 21st century is ending. 25 years have passed. However, Turkey has not been able to enter the 21st century. Let alone entering the 21st century, while the calendars show the 21st century, as we move away from the principles and revolutions of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, far from catching up with and surpassing the Level of Contemporary Civilization (Muasır Medeniyet Seviyesi), we are tumbling toward a medieval darkness in every field. Science and law have been completely abandoned. Nearly 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and 40 percent below the hunger line. Misery is rampant. 

Turkey's agenda changes faster than the pace of a tennis match. We have become "Agenda Maniacs" with artificial agendas, illegalities that directly attack human rights, detentions, and arrests every day. There is no peace or glimmer of hope for the future left in people. 

We cannot discuss the Minister of Tourism, who bears responsibility in the series of negligence in Kartalkaya where 78 people died by burning or smoke inhalation, and we cannot hold the responsible parties accountable. We cannot talk about the "SGK Fraudster Baby Killer Private Hospital Gang," which should remain on the agenda because they still cannot be held accountable under normal circumstances. Train disasters and mining accidents have already been forgotten…

We cannot talk about the misery, the injustice in income distribution, high inflation, the fire in the markets and bazaars, the fact that a single head of lettuce has skyrocketed to 50-55 liras and a bunch of parsley to 15 liras, the devastated farmers, the increases in minimum wage and pensions that are below inflation, and the corruption news that breaks out from somewhere else every day.

A healthy population is related to the survival of a country. We cannot talk about the poisons in the food we eat and drink, the appointments given 6 or 9 months later in hospitals, the fact that the healthcare system abandoned to the market does not treat people, and that the system enriches the cronies who operate City Hospitals and private hospitals.

The education system is related to the survival of a country. We cannot talk about children going to school hungry, not finding soap to wash their hands in schools, the threats of epidemic diseases, their brains being washed with nonsensical superstitions instead of learning about life, the fact that a budget of up to one or two million liras per year is required for a child to receive a good education, and that this can only be met by 10 percent of the population. 

Despite the taxes we pay, we cannot question the fact that we do not receive education and health services from the state, that we pay exorbitant amounts for bridges and highways despite so much tax, the government's expenditures on pomp and circumstance, and the inadequacy of public order services in cities due to the widespread lack of rules.

For the survival of the secular and unitary Republic of Turkey, there is a need for a strong army with high morale that is dedicated to the founding values of this country, its homeland, and its nation. Let's see how much we will talk about and then forget the decision to dismiss the Atatürkist lieutenants and their immediate superiors from the TSK, which coincided with the weekend?

HOW DOES THE STAFF INTELLIGENCE OF THE TSK, WHICH DISMISSED THE ATATÜRKIST LIEUTENANTS, VIEW THE WORLD?

How much will we stomach the dismissal of the soldiers of Mustafa Kemal, the savior and founder of this country, from the Turkish Armed Forces?  I wonder what those who see the TSK as a guarantee for the survival of the secular and unitary Republic of Turkey think about the command echelon of the TSK? Let me ask a few questions, for example. 

While we are struggling with agenda diversions created through legal means internally, let's take a brief look at what is happening outside.

Trump has taken the Presidential seat. He is hurling threats everywhere, even at his closest allies, and even at NATO members. He has set his sights on Canadian territory and Greenland, an autonomous region belonging to Denmark. He imposed a 25 percent customs duty on Canada and Mexico because they did not join the US.

Could Trump's love for the YPG/PYD, who has his eyes on the territories of Canada and Greenland, both of which are under the protection of founding NATO members, pose a threat to the territorial integrity of Turkey, which became a NATO member later? 

Trump has suspended the basic rule of Neoliberalism: duty-free trade and the free movement of capital. He also imposed a 10 percent customs duty on China. It didn't stop there; saying "EU countries have exploited us too much," he is preparing to impose customs duties on EU countries as well. Turkey has a surplus in its foreign trade with the US. Risks should be discussed from a very broad perspective, including the economy, foreign policy, defense, the EU, and the Customs Union. 

The neoliberal era in the economy is over. A very new era is beginning. The US realized that it cannot compete with China under neoliberal market conditions. There are moments in the world when the flow of time accelerates. We are now in a process where the flow of time is accelerating. Developments in technology, especially with Artificial Intelligence technologies, are pregnant with radical changes in production, distribution, economic relations between countries, and consequently foreign policy and defense relations, as well as democratic institutions and rules, and social structures. It appears that the world is rapidly heading towards an era of digital dictatorships under the control of giant technology companies. At his inauguration, Trump had the bosses of tech giant companies behind him and declared the codes of the new world order by saying, "Power is in the US and in me." 

A week hadn't passed before the response from China was not delayed… The Chinese company Deep Seek announced that it had produced a much faster version of the ChatGPT application of the US Artificial Intelligence company, at a hundred times lower cost using one-thirtieth of the chip, and released the free application to the market. Two days later, another Chinese company, Alibaba, claimed to have made one faster than Deep Seek. Trump must have been demoralized, as he deflected by saying, "These developments should be a wake-up call for American technology companies." 

These radical changes will affect not only economic and social relations but also defense alliances…  

You know China's Belt and Road Project. Let's summarize it briefly. It is a project to connect China to Europe via land routes, sea routes, railways, and fiber optic networks. There is a railway in the north of the project, and a railway and land route in the middle belt, which includes Turkey.  There is also a sea route in the south. The Eastern Mediterranean region, which is located in the Maritime Silk Road, is the region where Turkey is also located. There are 155 countries and about 30 international organizations in the project. The total investment amount of the project exceeds 2 trillion dollars.

To undermine China, the US has long been inciting unrest and conflicts in countries and regions involved in this belt and road project. The turmoil in the Middle East should not be viewed solely as energy control. Geopolitical risks will not be lacking in the regions where Turkey is also located, on both the land and sea sides of the Belt and Road Project. It feels like we are in trouble…

Scenarios regarding the Greater Middle East Project (BOP) have been written and drawn for many years. Let's remember briefly. I wonder if the US impositions on Turkey are behind this great noise and agenda changes created internally? For example, turning the Treaty of Sèvres map into a candy apple under today's conditions… We are talking about a project that will be portrayed as if it hasn't taken land from Turkey. A Kurdish autonomous region under PYD/YPG control in Northern Syria. The merger of this region with the region in Iraq, showing Turkey as if it were being left in control of northern Iraq and northern Syria by acting as a guarantor for these autonomous regions, and ultimately a Federated Islamic state that also includes a Kurdish State, which would also take land from Turkey and cover the most important water resources of the entire region…  

Is there a connection between these scenarios and the "PKK should lay down arms, Apo should make a call, new Kurdish Opening projects"?  

Now something else is cooking. There is another radish in the bag. I mentioned it in my speeches on television. After the Syria scenario, Cyprus is coming. The patriotic Admirals of Mustafa Kemal, who were trained by Turkey and purged from the Naval Forces, have been drawing attention for a long time.

US naval and air forces have settled in bases in Southern Cyprus. It didn't stop there; it is expanding both the naval base and the air base.  Previously, it had established a very large base in Alexandroupoli, Greece, just 30 kilometers from our Thrace border. The ownerless islands in the Aegean were occupied, and weapons were stockpiled against Turkey on islands where arming is prohibited according to international agreements. 

Now, with the bases in Southern Cyprus, Turkey has been completely blockaded. Will this presence of the US in the region, especially the bases in Southern Cyprus, be limited only to Israel's security and so-called humanitarian aid in the Middle East?

I find it very important for the survival of my country how Trump, who even has his eyes on the lands of NATO allies, will strengthen his love for the PYD/YPG, his military presence in Alexandroupoli and Southern Cyprus, what kind of intrigues he might engage in against countries on the Chinese Belt and Road in the perspective of the trade and technology wars he has entered into with China, and what kind of measures Turkey can take against these intrigues. 

 After the dismissal of the brilliant officers who shouted "We are the Soldiers of Mustafa Kemal" from the Turkish Armed Forces, what is happening in the world worries me a little more. That is why I am curious about what the "Staff Intelligence of the Turkish Armed Forces" thinks about these issues.