Fazıl Say's striking post on Dilan Polat: 'In this tabloid country where artists and laborers are crushed...'
World-renowned pianist Fazıl Say shared a photo of Dilan Polat and Engin Polat, the couple arrested for money laundering and tax evasion, and asked, "What were you expecting in this tabloid country where artists and laborers are crushed?"
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Following the arrest of Dilan Polat and Engin Polat, a couple who frequently made headlines with their luxurious lifestyle, on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, investigations launched into social media influencers continue.
While the investigations into influencers remain a hot topic, renowned pianist Fazıl Say made a striking post about the Polat couple on his social media account.
Fazıl Say, who wrote "Turkey" over the photo of the Polat couple, included the following statements in his Instagram post;
"Tell the truth;
Are they the only ones guilty?
Is everyone guilty?
Look at Instagram..
Look at the fear of the “voice of the majority”...
LOOK!!!
Here;
I have been following 7500 people for 10 years. And I follow them for this reason alone.
To see this country.
I may or may not have followed them too. I don't know. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE EVENT... THIS IS TURKEY... Everyone is like them...
For 10 years, for 3650 days, I have been silently following them...
Already.
This is the culture that has been created.
Culture!!
The arabesque,
The arabesque series,
The culture of those who shout the loudest,
The culture of the most anger.
Writers who cannot form sentences, composers who do not know musical notes, pianists who play the piano with one finger, off-key singers...
The unqualified!!!
They are strange buildings built on a lie, like an earthquake, they will be razed to the ground at the first slight tremor. Fascistic sycophancy... The fear of the “voice of the majority”. Their music is listened to, their films and books are promoted, this is what this culture is; if someone among them commits corruption, they immediately pounce on them, so that 1- they take the blame for that act, 2- they come to the forefront and succeed...
So, actually, it is the same thing, they are completely the same people, they too.
The proof?
Right here...
Social media.
Browse and see!
Does the name matter?
And what is very painful is this; Turkey did this while its values were right next to it! It did this while the goals and hearts of determined, talented, and hardworking people were right beside it!
Where a writer cannot even buy themselves a dinner with their book sales,
Where a poet cannot even buy a simit with the income from their book sales,
Where a contemporary composer can barely pay their rent with the works they compose, a violinist gives a concert with an orchestra and can only afford toothpaste with that money.
The theater actor, the painter, the photographer, the laborer...
Is there anyone who knows?
Anyone who cares?
In this tabloid country where all of them, the entire sector, the artist, and the laborer are crushed, what were you expecting?
Where those who are alive are not allowed to live, where the legacy of those who are no longer alive is not even kept alive, but kicked away with anger?
What were you expecting?
Ah, that;
There are 3 million more of that photo. All of them are in the same vein.
Everyone knows everything!
And for us; it remains to turn on each other as always. Go ahead. Attack! Friend!!!
Strike!!
Strike harder!! Let nothing remain!!"