Abdulkadir Özkan: "Banks are growing, people are getting poorer"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "Banks are growing, people are getting poorer"
Date: 24.3.2022 14:30

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on economy. Here is the full article.

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Looking at the statements made by the ruling wing, our country breaks growth records, and our exports exceed the previous month every month. But import figures are ignored for some reason. In short, it seems that the people in power are either unaware of or do not want to see it, from the economic problems that the people feel.
 
Let me point out right away that my point is not to declare that the country is bankrupt. Because this country is all of us and nobody wants it to go bankrupt. Even if there are a few people who want it, they are nothing to be taken seriously. However, what I have said does not prevent criticism of the mistakes seen and the practices that are dragging the country and our people into a more and more bottleneck.
 
Such an approach is not to protect the country. Everyone has to share his thoughts on the good of his country in his own way. It goes without saying that the absence of criticism does not mean that the country is rosy.
 
Moreover, it is enough that the AK Party and MHP leaders and their spokespersons feel the need to raise their voices as if they are fighting, even in their normal conversations, to see that things are not going well at all.
 
Because not only those who rule the country, but those who are in all kinds of management levels raise their voices to suppress the voices of those who criticize them, and if they express their thoughts with a fighting style, it should be known that there are some things that are not going well. Because those who are sure of what they say don't need to raise their voices.
 
If those in the administrative office have adopted a method to speak by raising their voices, an air of authoritarianism has started to blow in that country, and it means that the way of suppressing and suppressing those who think differently and criticize certain practices has been chosen, it would be more correct to call it authoritarianism, not democracy.
 
For many years, some sections of our country have preferred this path, accusing those who do not think like them of treason or cooperation with terrorism, as a result, the country has come to a point where it has come to a point of polarization. Our people, who are suffering from this, no longer want to fight but to embrace, not to exclude each other, but to live together. It should not be forgotten that conflicts have always been dominant in this country for many years.
 
A number of military-civilian bureaucrats also chose to take advantage of this conflict environment and impose their own thoughts. As a result, our country has always suffered. Because the statements such as "We are growing with the new model in the economy" in order to silence different opinions and stifle their voices do not convince the narrow and fixed-income people. Moreover, the fact that the claims that the country has grown do not reflect the truth does not prevent the lives of those with low and fixed incomes becoming more and more unbearable due to the economic hardship.
 
We can say that such statements do not remove the need for a serious increase in the wages of employees and retirees. At this point, I would like to briefly quote two news in yesterday's newspapers.
 
One of them was under the heading "We are growing with the new model in the economy". The other was “Banks in profit, consumer in quagmire”. In other words, although banks are also an element of the economy, the fact that the profits of the banks are constantly increasing does not mean that the country's economy is growing, but that the debts of narrow and fixed-income people are constantly increasing. In other words, the fact that the banks are growing means that the debt of the people who can't get along is increasing. Trying to suppress the voices of those who speak this truth by raising it will not eliminate the problem. Moreover, the fact that a downpour of price hikes is experienced almost every day in growing economies causes the rumors to lose their credibility.

YEREL HABERLER

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