Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım speaking at the 25th Ordinary General Assembly of the TİM, he said, "As we increase our exports, our current account deficit will decrease." While saying these things, we have noticed that the current deficit has not decreased since we have increased imports despite the increase of our exports. It is not possible to participate in what they say. Because the fact is that imports and exports figures announced each month are usually ignored as the increase in imports is ignored as attention is paid to the increase in exports. Because the increase in exports is not due to the increase in production but the increase in exports related to imports does not decrease the trade deficit and the current deficit. As such, it is said that the current account deficit will decrease as the export increases. In fact, throughout the election campaign, especially Saadet Party Chairman Temel Karamollaoğlu drew attention to this fact and expressed the need for production mobilization. We are confronted with the fact that we import potatoes and bulbs even from the outside. For years, we have been told that we are a country of agriculture, one of the few countries where it produces agricultural products. However, the importance of agriculture is not emphasized, immigration to cities is encouraged in the countryside, while our exports dependence on the industry continues to grow, even though our exports are growing.
If we want to reduce or even increase our current incentives, we have to increase production in agriculture and industry. It will not be possible to reduce the current deficit by consuming more than we produce as it is now. As we can not become enough to ourselves due to wrong policies applied, we are not enough for ourselves and even for our agricultural products that we have exported abroad, we have not been able to ourselves and we started importing. What is odd is that we have been buying potatoes and onions from Syria, where conflicts have persisted since an approaching 8 years. I am trying to draw attention to the fact that the truths that are said to be true are not enough to criticize the ones who are aimed at, but that the truths which are said to pass the truth must be done.
Because, although there are many people who know the truth in our country, practices in the direction of known truths are not passed on / due to some internal and external influences. It is then necessary to search for and find ways of getting rid of the internal and external influences, which primarily binds this elimination and puts pressure on our will. At the beginning of this is to get rid of dependence on global capital environments. As long as this is not done, it is impossible to imagine what we think and what we say. The most obvious example of this is that interest rates should be lowered, but interest rates are constantly increasing, even though government officials have not spoken at every opportunity. Because the way to lower interest rates is due to the end of dependence on borrowing money. You will not be able to lower interest rates because you have to borrow from domestic and foreign markets in order to pay even the interest of the debts you have received consistently. Since global capital owners will not give up their high interest income they have gained, we have to reduce our dependence on them. We need to import the products that we have to import especially from the outside, as well as ourselves, and we have to become outsies.
Immediately I say that the way to increase production and to be able to get to ourselves first is through inner peace. We have to act as a society and initiate a mobilization of development. If we make all the investments we make with foreign debt or with certain commitments, it should be known that as long as exports increase, imports grow bigger, neither foreign trade nor current account deficit decreases. Now, as a nation, there is a certain obligation to give up production mobilization, especially by abandoning the habit of excluding a large part of the ruling wing society. It should not be forgotten that the current account deficit makes our country dependent on the outside, and every area has the possibility to act independently. It is important to remember from the fact that the path of full independence has gone from economic.