When will working retirees get their 5,000 lira?

Let me give you the answer to the question in the headline right away:

I don't know, my friend…

Nobody knows yet!

Because the omnibus bill that will contain the legal regulation on this matter has not yet been passed by the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey…

The General Assembly is very “busy” these days…

The 2024 Budget is being debated!

It is said that these debates will last at least another week. If nothing else gets in the way, that omnibus bill will start being debated at the earliest at the end of this month…

Whether it will pass through Parliament by the New Year or be left to the first week of January; God only knows…

So why did I use this headline for the article?

Simple; so you would “click” and “our view count would increase”!

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It is natural for those not in the business not to know; the news that gets the most clicks and makes money for news sites these days is news about pensions, retirement bonuses, and the minimum wage!

“How much will the lowest pension be?”

“How much will your salary increase to in 2024?”

“We are announcing the new minimum wage…”

“Learn about the raises to be given to civil servant salaries from us…”

Every news site except ours is full of these stories…

This is the new trick of “seasoned editors” who want to increase their “click” counts without putting in the effort…

They are right, too:

In our country, there are 7 million 380 thousand citizens living as retirees under the SSK…

1 million 732 thousand under Bağ-Kur…

And 1 million 618 thousand as Emekli Sandığı retirees, for a total of 10 million 730 thousand retired citizens…

Add to this nearly 4.5 million people receiving disability, widow, orphan, and incapacity pensions; the figure exceeds 15 million 200 thousand people…

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Then there are the minimum wage earners whose salaries are constantly on the agenda:

Their number is approximately 6.5 million people…

Add 2.5 million civil servants:

In total, the salaries of 24 million 230 thousand people are constantly on everyone's lips…

In other words, there is at least one retiree or one minimum wage earner for every three-person family.

Well; since the government keeps these 24 million 230 thousand people hungry and dependent on a pittance of a raise, the most curious topic in the country becomes “pensions and bonuses, civil servant salaries, and the minimum wage”…

And journalists aren't naive either…

To increase views and clicks, they keep publishing these stories as if a raise is being given every day…

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You won't see such news in the German media…

The French, Italians, Dutch, and Danes would just laugh it off…

In America, Canada, or even in Greece, which recently experienced a major economic crisis, no journalist would write such a stupid story.

Even if they did, no one would read it!

Because retirees, minimum wage earners, and civil servants living in those countries know how much of a raise they will get the following year.

The increase rates in their salaries consist of a 1-2 point welfare share added to inflation figures that are kept “honestly.”

Everyone knows that no one has their eyes on their salaries.

Governments do not slash pensions to give to contractor gangs!

Moreover, no country leaves this vital issue to commissions like we do, only to have it end up as “a statement that will come out of just one person's lips…”

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Still, ladies and gentlemen…

Stay tuned!

I will frequently write to you about how much your salary will increase to…

You will learn the new minimum wage only from me…

As your eager reporter, I am on alert:

I cannot increase your income, but at least I can keep your expectations alive…

So…

Long live chaos!

And those who feed on the environment of chaos…