Abdulkadir Özkan: "Let's at least leave the polarizing style in Ramadan"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "Lets at least leave the polarizing style in Ramadan"
Date: 23.3.2023 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Turkey's political agenda. Here is the full article.

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I am seriously disturbed by the divisive and polarizing style of politics that the ruling wing has made a consistent use of.
 
I think that this style, which disturbs a significant part of the society for the sake of votes, should be abandoned at least on the occasion of Holy Ramadan month. Because this month is the month of self-review, of internal accounting.
 
In this regard, it is a time to pray as much as possible, to seek forgiveness from our Creator.
 
However, the fact that some politicians persistently display a belligerent style and have made the race to draw the society into a fight as the basis of their election campaigns should not prevent our people from turning to their Creator, asking for forgiveness and forgiveness, and spending their days in prayer as much as possible.
 
Moreover, it should not prevent us from benefiting from our prayers properly in an environment where daily political discourses stress and disturb our peace while we are performing our prayers.
 
In this respect, the heart would wish that Ramadan did not coincide with an election campaign, but now that it has come, our Ramadan month will pass within this campaign. With these feelings, I congratulate all my readers for the month of Ramadan and wish it to lead to good luck.
 
At this point, I think there is no need to remind you under what conditions we entered Ramadan. On the one hand, while the wounds inflicted by the earthquake disaster we experienced have not yet healed, the flood disaster has increased our suffering even more.
 
In addition to what we have experienced, despite all the positive statements of the rulers, the prices in the market are rising every day, and the poor wait in queues for hours to buy cheap meat, even once a month.
 
Due to the fact that people turn to debit cards, their debts to banks increase, and in parallel, the interest they pay to banks increases. Despite the fact that the rulers say that they are based on the fight against interest at every opportunity, the money paid by the state to domestic and foreign debt interests has exceeded the principal.
 
We can say that while the low- and middle-income people make good use of their hair to make it to the end of the month, they may not even be aware of the economic distress they are experiencing because the happy minority gets a large share of the country's opportunities.
 
As I mentioned in my yesterday's article, it would not be wrong to say that the injustice in income distribution inevitably makes a large part of the society restless and unhappy due to unfair practices.
 
Because, as I have often pointed out, a significant part of the society has become like a bomb ready to explode due to the troubles they are experiencing, and while it is difficult to meet the needs of their families, some politicians are pushing the society even more in order to take the society in a certain direction.
 
However, in order to get rid of the troubles we are in, we need to work arm in arm and bring our country together.
 
As it has been for years, those who are still able to get their votes by dividing the society and making one part hostile to the other, should know that those living in a restless and unhappy society will have their share of this unhappiness.
 
In short, it will be in everyone's interest if at least some politicians abandon the camping style, even in these Ramadan days, and allow the society to think and evaluate the situation they are in calmly.

YEREL HABERLER

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