Next year, the 100th anniversary of the Republic will be completed and a century will have passed since October 29, 1923. The official of a party that was in power for a fifth of this period, as if making fun of it, defined the time they had spent at work until this time as "preparation". He brought up the statements "It took us 19 years to complete our preparations, but now we are starting" again. If he believes this, the problem is, if he continues to talk like that because he has nothing to say but believing, this is an even bigger problem. It is disconnected from reality. It is an expression of anxiety. Since new stories cannot be created, it is to seek help from old notebooks. This is exploiting the nation's support for so many years. It is the ear not hearing what comes out of the mouth in the rush of losing power.
However, I must also state this. Every government that came to power has contributed more or less to this country. Whoever put the stone on the stone, this nation knows how to thank each and every one of them, and he has known it until now.
Well, let's look for answers to the following questions; Have the country's structural problems been truly resolved over the past 20 years?
What preparations will be made for the economy, which has been turned into a test board? For example, is it desired another 20 years for the elimination of economic problems?
If until yesterday it was one of the seven self-sufficient countries, today it has become foreign-dependent even for basic foodstuffs, can we say that it was planned as a specially designed choice in 19 years?
Have they put a gun to our foreheads to make us make the inconsistencies that keep the ebb and flow in foreign policy? Did they tie our hands and leave us motionless?
With the game of the USA, which proposal to make Syria into Afghanistan has blown our minds and we have afflicted us with the biggest security problem of the century-old republican period?
What benefit did we expect for the country and the nation from practices such as evacuating Anatolian villages, withdrawing people from production, hoarding them in big cities, and devastating livestock, but we happily implemented them?
The average age of our farmers is 60. Are we going to feed the population exceeding 90 million, including refugees, with farmers of this age? Why did we need so much effort to bring our people, whose enthusiasm for production is lost day by day, to this point? How much more will we pay for knowing and realizing that pulling people out of production is a suicide for this country?
While we are proud that we have over 8 million university students, have we made special perception management preparations to present this as a success story instead of investigating the reasons why most of our young people prefer to work and live abroad at the first opportunity?
While we were presenting the investments that we had done for 13 liras for a 3-lira job, under the build-operate-transfer model, after saying that we don't have a penny out of our pocket, did we resort to deep calculations in order to create risk-free job opportunities in the pockets of the contractors by taking them out of the pockets of the nation with the pass guarantees given?
It is possible to increase these questions even more. However, government officials do not want to hear such questions, but sentences that everything is rosy. I think the ruling parties better prepare themselves for the opposition now. Because these kinds of sentences make our people, who are struggling with all kinds of difficulties to survive, overwhelm with sadness. It increases their reaction and anger. It perceives it as intentional sentences. Every survey and research reveals this fact.