Illegal gains, impoverished citizens...

Those who want to see the state of the economy,

Those who struggle to save even a pittance from what they have earned through blood and sweat,

Are looking at the markets, from morning to night, at exchange rates, crypto, the stock market, funds, and gold.

We woke up 15 days ago to find that,

Money in some funds had been transferred to the accounts of those managing the funds and abroad,

Spent on yachts, mansions, and the latest luxury cars.

The scale of the scandal is 827 billion lira across 131 funds, 

And 455 thousand 758 investors, mostly small ones, are now victims.

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What those who want to see the true state of the economy should look at,

Are the constantly rising prices of food that the people cannot afford in the markets and bazaars.

Is it just food?

Bills for gasoline, diesel, water, electricity, and gas,

The prices of the goods we consume and use, from what we eat to what we drink,

Tolls for roads and bridges, education and health expenses,

And of course, the debt of the Nation, which is trying to survive by juggling credit cards, is RISING.

Interest, inflation, unemployment, scarcity, poverty, hopelessness, 

Illegal activities, drug use, and violence are INCREASING.

Turkey's debt, which rises every year to reach 539 billion dollars, is also RISING.

What is not rising,

Is the worker's minimum wage, the retiree's pension, the price of the farmer's crop.

As for the winners,

They are international capital, banks, and the actors of the money markets, government supporters, and crony capitalists.

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The fund scandal is similar to the banker crisis experienced in 1982.

The words of Durmuş Yılmaz, one of the former Central Bank governors, regarding the fund scandal,

Show the reality of the illegal events we have experienced in the economy since the 80s.

1. Those who personally commit this act,

2. The institutions that turn a blind eye to those who commit this wrong, negligence of duty,

3. Those who do not make those who commit negligence of duty perform their duties, the political institution,

And we, the people, pay the burden.

Durmuş Yılmaz is right,

Those who profit through illegal means keep what they have gained,

Those responsible remain in their positions with their irresponsibility,

And the citizens who pay the price continue to become impoverished.

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Before we complain about our situation, 

We must question why we have fallen into such a state.

Since the January 24 decisions, in the name of the requirements of the new world order,

• We abandoned the Republic's mixed economy policy,

• We switched to the free market economy of neoliberalism.

• We distanced the state from the economy, we stopped supporting production in agriculture and industry,

• We privatized and sold our factories and production facilities,

• We surrendered the economy to the money markets,

• We turned even education and health, which are fundamental human rights, into a commodity bought and sold for money...

As a result, we have reached these days.

Do not look at the government's words of “Turkey's century, a growing and strong Turkey,”

The reality is the RTE-AKP century, a growing and strong RTE-AKP.

The nation is in the despair of poverty.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk warned 104 years ago;

“What independence is there that can rise with the advice of foreigners, with the plans of foreigners?

History has not recorded such an event.”

The reason for this dark order we live in as a Nation today,

Is the neoliberal free market order established by the USA and the RTE-AKP government that implements it. 

This order of exploitation is contrary to the realities of our country, our culture, and our way of life.

It has been written many times in these lines, our way out is clear.

Turkey's reality is;

The Republic with its education based on reason and science,

And its mixed economy based on production.

It is the order of a Democratic, Secular, Social State of Law.

• Raw materials in the field and the mine,

• Technology in universities,

• Consumer goods in factories and workshops,

• We must produce them ourselves and share them fairly.

By saying no to parties that conduct politics according to the wishes and plans of foreigners,

By supporting parties that uphold Turkey's reality and conduct politics on this basis,

We must take ownership of the future of our country and our Nation.