Of course it would be illogical to ask and expect those in power to paint a pessimistic picture every day. However, if the country has no problems, the economy has taken flight, our money is not losing value, on the contrary, it is rising, if the statements such as the IMF were not given to the IMF but given a loan do not reflect the truth. In other words, whether the rulers or the opposition, they cannot and should not be a disaster. However, the opposite of this, that is, to make the atmosphere work perfectly while the economy is getting worse and making statements in this direction cannot hide the truth...
For this reason, I would like to make short quotations from some statements in the media today and leave the comment to my readers.
As is known, the President Erdogan, our debt to the IMF that often remain, even remembered that she wanted from Turkey's IMF debt of $ 5 billion years ago. Of course, we would like to have no debt not only to the IMF, but to any of the international capital institutions, and we would be happy about that. However, we have no more debt to the IMF, we even lent 5 billion dollars, and a different picture emerges in the statement from the President and Deputy of the Central Bank of the time.
In the reply made, the words of former MB President Durmuş Yılmaz make you think: The IMF did not ask for a loan from us. A commitment was made to the precautionary fund. This did not happen either. There is no such debt record on the MB balance sheet.
Former Vice-President of the MB İbrahim Turhan says the following: After the 2008 crisis, the IMF was authorized to borrow up to $ 500 billion from member states. Ankara did not look warm. When the markets returned to their normal course, the IMF did not initiate this financing program. So Turkey, the IMF did not give 5 billion dollars.
Assessment with another economy is that when the 200 TL banknotes that were put on the market in 2009 were put into circulation, it corresponded to 131 dollars. In other words, you could get 200 TL and 131 dollars. Today, the value of 200 TL against dollars is only 27 dollars.
So our money has depreciated at that rate. As such, our dollar-denominated foreign debt increases where it stands in terms of Turkish currency, that is to say, it is doubling, furthermore, the prices of imported products are constantly rising, and our people's purchasing power is weakening.
The weakening of the purchasing power of the people with low and fixed income means that the determined minimum wage remains below the hunger and poverty line. This means, according to the research of Kamu-Sen, the one-person poverty line figure is determined as 3 thousand 728 TL. This means that millions of workers and retirees have an income below the poverty line in our country. According to the monthly research conducted by Türk-İş, it is clear that the minimum wage is also below the hunger limit, so it is obvious that a large part of the society is obliged to live with an income below the hunger and poverty line.
I would like to make a final quote from former Prime Minister Davutoğlu's statement.
Davutoğlu: "The President said on Friday that the MB reserve was 105 billion dollars, then it decreased to 90 billion dollars. Where did the $ 15 billion go in three days? Economy fire place, they bent TL's back, but there is no one to account."
The owners of these evaluations reflected in the media are those who want the country to develop and strengthen. Just as it is wrong to expect and want everyone to think the same things, the minds of others other than us do not reach these things, only we know the truth, we apply it, and the approach does not prevent things from getting worse.