The public crushed for seeds is being fleeced for hamburgers

A video has been circulating on social media in recent days…

A woman visiting from England on holiday was shocked by the price of a hamburger she ate at Antalya Airport and shared this shock on her social media account…

How much was the hamburger? She had paid a full 20 euros for an ordinary Big Mac meal. That is almost 1,000 TL at today's exchange rate! With a triple cheeseburger, a Coke, and a Fanta on the side, the total bill was approaching 2,000 TL!

The British newspaper The Mirror, seeing this video, ran a headline in astonishment:

“Why have prices in Turkey risen so much?”

And they lined up the tourists' comments underneath:

“We paid 85 euros for three people,” “I shelled out 94 pounds,” and those who found the prices “nauseating”…

And they are right.

Because these prices do not exist in European airports, nor do they have any place in logic.

In Amsterdam and London Heathrow, prices are the same at the airport as they are in the city.

Because there, a “flying passenger” is not a customer to be fleeced.

But here, a burger meal is 1,000 lira because the attitude is, “If they are flying, they have the money.”

The same week, citizens trampled each other for tomato seedlings distributed for free by the Afyonkarahisar Municipality.

Hundreds of people flocked to the fairgrounds just to get a single seedling, a scuffle broke out, and the Mayor had to be escorted out of the crowd by municipal police.

A seedling, yes. Just a seedling!

In other words, a public that wants to grow its own tomatoes trampled each other when they found free seeds.

Here is the summary of Turkey:

On one side, the price of a hamburger is 1,000 lira…

On the other side, people being crushed to reach a free seedling.

On one hand, a mentality that sends prices into orbit by saying, “The tourist will pay anyway…”

On the other hand, a public trampling each other even for a free seedling.

Let's be clear:

If the distribution of seedlings turns into a stampede, it means the end of the road in the economy has long been visible.

But the real danger is those who still call this picture “normal.”

Opportunism is no longer a profession for us, but a way of life.

The common point between the nation attacking seeds and the tourist being fleeced for a hamburger is this:

Neither of them can get enough.

One out of hunger, the other out of greed.