Akit columnist Ali Karahasanoğlu claimed that economist Daron Acemoğlu receiving the Nobel Prize is a success of the AKP government, stating, "You are amazing, AK Party... Just as in every other field, you have carried Turkey to the summits in the Nobel as well."
Akit columnist Ali Karahasanoğlu argued that Orhan Pamuk, Aziz Sancar, and Daron Acemoğlu winning Nobel Prizes during the AKP's time in power is a success of the government.
Karahasanoğlu's article reads as follows:
"You are amazing, AK Party...
Just as in every other field, you have carried Turkey to the summits in the Nobel as well...
The Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923, had not won a single Nobel Prize until the AK Party came to power...
We must have been dragging on the ground in positive sciences.
We must have been dragging on the ground in literature.
We must have been dragging on the ground in the field of economics, which some debate whether it is a science or not...
There was not a single Turk who had won a Nobel Prize until the AK Party came to power...
Ever since the AK Party came to power...
Date: 2006... Orhan Pamuk in Literature...
Date: 2015. Aziz Sancar in Chemistry...
Date: 2024. Daron Acemoğlu in Economics...
Do you see the point to which the AK Party has elevated Turkey...
Not a single one in 79 years...
Three all at once in 22 years..."
News Source: 12punto
