Everything tasted gone. With climate change, the seasons came together. It's summer, it's winter. Winter, spring. While the parliament was closed, the schools were on holiday, and those abroad were excitedly dreaming of going home, a sudden black winter suddenly struck.
Last year, we experienced the hottest and driest season of recent years. As a result of this temperature, the streams dried up and the forests burned. Vegetables and crops were not enough due to the drought. Water levels in dams dropped, germs spread. Diseases multiplied. There is good rain this year. While we were happy that the occupancy rate of the dams was increasing, the snow and winter apocalypse descended on the country like a nightmare.
Snow, which has not been seen for maybe 50 years, has been seen in many places this year. Snow, ice, winter, apocalypse have taken over the whole country. So much so that even in big cities, life was paralyzed. The work of the teams was insufficient. People were stuck in their vehicles for long hours. Thousands of people could not go home, had to spend the night in their vehicle.
However, while all this is going on, the country is still in internal conflict. On such a day, the invoice was issued to only one institution/person, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. It was said that the president was eating at a restaurant while it was snowing.
In the winter apocalypse, the distinction between the government (party) and the municipality came to the fore. In the crisis management organization team, which should work in coordination, the mayor was not included in the agenda where the governor and the minister were present. However, the failure was theirs.
On the other hand, the irresponsibility of the mayor, his callousness, and the fact that he only wanders around with mediatic showmanship is also a plus.
WHOSE IS THIS INCOMPLETE?
Unfortunately, we cannot ignore a very important group of people who are happy that people are in this situation as a result of the incompetence of the Istanbul Municipality. There is a whole mass of trolls who rejoice at people's victimization, exploit people's grievances just because they will discredit the rival mayor, and then attack them completely.
Yes, the victimization in Istanbul was the incompetence of the mayor. Well, who was responsible for the people who were trapped in Afrin in Idlib, the tents that fell in the region, the collapsed hearths, the children who froze to death?
Yes, the Ankara-Istanbul highway has been closed. People were trapped in the Bolu Mountain Tunnel. Ankara-Aksaray road waited for the snow mountains to be cleared. But perhaps for the first time, Gaziantep-Adana highway was closed for 20 hours. People waited in the snow, screaming. People were left to their fate for hours with their babies. But that didn't even make the news.
Highways, cities, closed. Incompetence is everywhere… The only problem is abuse. Not only the deputies, but even the agency of the state is in the same mood… Busy listing the dexterity of the mayor of the closed city on the highway… While the people were stranded on the highway in Antep, the public broadcaster Anadolu Agency was busy listing the successes of President Fatma Şahin.
Of course, if we put aside the disasters that are expected to bring people together and the grievances of people, to confront this situation, to produce enemies, to rejoice that the opponent will be blamed, it must be a situation unique to us. In everyone's minds, the question of what will happen to the people with this lack of management and irresponsibility keeps turning around if there is an Istanbul earthquake.
Let alone the inclusion of teachers and opinion leaders in this. Of course, the situation of the person who was arrested and sent to prison for insulting the President was not reflected in the public in any way. Yes, at the point we have arrived at today, when the agenda is overturned because of a song that was sung years ago and that did not care much about religious sensitivities, it does not suit an Islamic scholar to say, "You will stay with fish and raki in your hand, you can take it out when necessary". Islamic scholars call people to do good and help each other. It is a separate responsibility not to show hostility, but to expose anyone, especially the crime he has hidden. Being a scholar also requires it.
It was expected that our teacher would talk about the Syrian children who were trapped in tents this winter and froze to death. He made a call for help for them, but it did not happen. I wonder why they crashed?
BLAME THE INNOCENT
Production will stop with natural gas and electricity cuts from organized industrial zones. No one cares… The loss of more than a billion dollars is not even on the agenda. The eyes of those who do not see the bread lines in the snow are at the fish restaurant. An international airport closed for hours, the cargo compartment collapsed. The ministers, who could not get down to a building where billions of liras were spent and presented as the showcase of our country in the world, had to land at the airport they closed. It's still about finding the opportunity to blame the competitors. No, the salt already stinks.
Yes, the homeless, immigrants, refugees, victims of war, those living in tents, the homeless on the street, those who froze to death, those without electricity in their homes, those whose tents were flooded, these are the real victims. They had to be protected. In part, our people rushed to aid activities, reaching out to their brothers. In the face of the negative snow scenes reflected in the press in recent days, the aids have remained dim.
As a result, the country is going through a great crisis with great incompetence. Neither public institutions nor municipalities have been successful in this exam. Highways were closed, the poor froze, another crisis was veiled because natural gas would not come. Maybe the attack on the municipalities was actually an effort to cover up the unlawfulness and the situations that hurt the conscience.
At a time when the country was faced with a natural gas disaster in the apocalypse in the winter, electricity prices increased three times, and people were bothered by it, other crimes were covered up by saying hit the abalı.