If the country turns into a revolving door...

It caught my attention while I was browsing social media.

When I clicked to learn the details, I encountered a piece of news that challenged even my increasingly high threshold for surprise at living in this country.

In Edirne, Pakistanis had kidnapped an Indian citizen named Akhil Krishnan Radhakrishnan by deceiving him with a job offer.

They didn't just kidnap him; they tortured him and sent footage of the torture to the hostage's family in India. They demanded a ransom of 2 million Rupees, or approximately 775 thousand Turkish Liras, in exchange for his release.

After watching this footage, the family reached out to the Turkish police, and the Indian citizen was rescued in a subsequent operation.

Following the operation, 4 suspects, 3 of whom were Pakistani nationals, were taken into custody, and the hostage hugged the police officers who saved him, shedding tears of joy.

At first, I thought it was a Zaytung (satirical) news piece, but I saw that it wasn't.

No matter which angle you look at this issue from, it falls apart.

The country, especially in the process that began with the Arab Spring, has practically turned into a revolving door.

Beyond the Syrians, people from Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, Iraq, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have come to Turkey, having broken their tethers.

They have formed their own neighborhoods and ghettos in major cities.

It sounds like a joke, but right in the middle of Ankara, in Kızılay, there is a street for Somalis. I won't even mention Esenyurt in Istanbul!

The government didn't just turn the country into a warehouse for illegal immigrants to squeeze money out of the European Union. There is also a strategic aspect to the issue that is of critical importance for political Islamists.

They want to use asylum seekers to change the country's demographic structure so they can more easily dismantle the national identity and turn Turkish society into an 'ummah'.

Thanks to them, Euros are pouring in from the European Union, which says, “Let's pay whatever it costs, just don't send them to us.” At the same time, they are serving the pragmatism of Islamists that would even make Machiavelli blush.

Let's write it clearly; today, asylum seekers and the illegal immigrants protected and coddled by the government have turned into a complete existential issue for Turkey.

Unfortunately, by the time Turkish society fully faces this reality, it will be too late.

There is no need to look far. Looking at Pakistan is enough to predict the situation Turkey will fall into in the near future.

It is clear what Afghan asylum seekers did to Pakistan after the Soviet occupation.

Back in 2016, Javid Siddiqui, Editor-in-Chief of the Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper in Pakistan, warned Turkey.

"Afghan refugees brought weapons and drugs with them to Pakistan and began to instill a new atmosphere in Pakistan. Now, many segments in Pakistan believe that refugees have brought social diseases to our country and are involved in numerous crimes. Our security and intelligence units know that most of the crimes committed in the last 30 years stem from refugees. Our security forces have imprisoned many refugees for committing crimes. In whichever city a crime is committed where refugee camps or settlements are located, the police find that refugees are behind the incident and focus on them."

These sentences did not find much resonance in Turkey at the time.

Because soft-brained liberals fed by European Union funds, civil society figures trying to play the humanist with their wet dreams, the so-called 'leftist' crowd shaken by the spiral of identity politics, and government sycophants were playing at being 'pro-asylum seeker' in the corners they held in the mainstream media.

So much so that some associations funded by Westerners would host fresh reporters interested in the issue at five-star hotels and hold brainwashing sessions, saying, “Turkey should grant citizenship to all asylum seekers and immigrants.”

They would label anyone who dared to question the migration issue as a fascist and then slap the racist tag on them.

Today, the direction of the wind has changed. My fellow citizens have slowly begun to realize the danger.

However, it is still necessary not to take off one's reading glasses, to avoid sweeping generalizations, and not to put Syrians, Africans, Afghans, and Pakistanis in the same basket.

For example, if there were an election in Turkey today and a government came to power that put forward a clear and explicit political will on the issue instead of the Islamists, steps could be taken for the return of Syrian asylum seekers through a bilateral agreement to be made with the Damascus administration.

But Afghans and Pakistanis are not easily sent back.

Both the fact that Turkey does not have a border with these two countries and the distant stance of the Taliban administration in Afghanistan could restrict Turkey. To this, we can add the fact that the US wants to keep its collaborators in Afghanistan in Turkey.

Let us underline our sentences with a thick pen because the Pakistanis, who were once infected by the Afghans, are now meticulously infecting Turkey with their social diseases.

In the near future, we will witness a rapid increase in crimes such as theft, extortion, kidnapping, and drug trafficking originating from Pakistanis. Therefore, the incident in Edirne should not be evaluated as a simple public order issue.

This shows how illegal migration from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Turkey could turn into a threat to my fellow citizens in a short time.

Perhaps it is a signal flare.

Özgür Özel may not be fully aware of it, but as the main opposition party, there is a serious duty falling on the CHP. He needs to put aside his efforts to appease the religious by reprimanding CHP municipalities that remove Arabic signs and immediately establish a working group that will seriously address the issue of illegal migration.

Let us end our article by saying that we expect him to come before my fellow citizens with clear and concrete proposals regarding this existential problem of the country, instead of wasting time with self-proclaimed approaches like “normalization” and “softening” to extend Tayyip's political life.