Abdulkadir Özkan: "The pandemic disrupts the balances"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "The pandemic disrupts the balances"
Date: 22.12.2020 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Covid-19 pandemic. Here is the full article.

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I left my corner empty for twenty days. Because both our country and the world have become so troubled and brought in that people cannot think calmly in this chaos, living in a troubled and overwhelming environment makes it difficult to evaluate events calmly. For this, I gave myself permission with the approval of the newspaper management. However, it is not possible to get rid of the habit of my job over a period of 50 years. Even though I will not write articles on a daily basis, watching the news regularly on television channels every day and not writing when you cannot start the day without reading at least 10 daily newspapers every day is not enough to relieve people from stress. Especially if it has become a lifestyle to be aware of the news by turning the pages of the newspapers I buy as the first thing every morning and feeling the smell of ink, I think it is necessary to bear the stress and tension caused by the corona epidemic and accept the developments as normal. Especially when these are added to the conditions in which politics has come and been imposed, the society gets more tense. Maybe the society is not tense, but such a result emerges from my point of view, I am not sure about that. But for some reason it seems that the separating and polarizing style of society has become indispensable for politicians. It seems as if finding a solution to the problems of the country was not adopted as an indispensable attitude for politicians and especially members of the government. Beyond that, the rulers see their future in this polarizing attitude. Even if not, this is the image that emerges.
 
However, whether we like it or not, we have to live together in this country with 83 million people, even though we disagree with their thoughts and beliefs, and this polarizing attitude makes the society nervous and inevitably throws a section of the society out of the normal. This incites camping. Although some of them think that it provides political rent, it causes unrest for the society. However, the main task of politicians should be to ensure social peace, seek and find solutions to the problems of the country, be it in power or opposition. The fact that one side accuses the other side as dictator and the other side as sheer fascist, and beyond that, with some derogatory qualifications pushing the judiciary aside and declaring those who do not think like themselves traitors and terrorists inevitably makes politics uglier, but those who are responsible for this they are not aware of this or do not want to be aware of it.
 
Of course, the nation has to evaluate this unacceptable ugly style in politics. However, the polarization comes to such a point that the resulting feeling of belonging brings the supporters to the point of seeing the wrongdoings as true, defining the ugly as beautiful and defending them. Meanwhile, the country's internal and external problems are crawling. For example, while the whole world is discussing the vaccine, and beyond that, countries have put a large part of their societies in the trouble of vaccinating as soon as possible, in our country, this issue is left to some types in the virtual world. For example, although it was said that vaccination in our country will start on December 11 in November, there is still no clarity, a large part of the society has fallen into economic difficulties due to the epidemic, while it is necessary to think about how to find a solution to their problems and find a solution, while the source of all troubles in the economy was seen as interest. Nowadays, the same people are trying to find a solution to the problem with interest rate increases and if this controversy escapes the attention of the society amid unnecessary discussions, this must be what is required of these discussions.

YEREL HABERLER

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