Welcome to Turkey Erdogan Style

Submitted by Solomon Taragano (Israel), Nov 28, 2009 at 18:24

Turkish Style this is what Erdogan and his islamist AKP has done to Turkey.

Turkish economy. Figures released this week show that the budget deficit increased thirteenfold in the first six months of 2009. Foreign investment fell by half in the first five months of the year. One in four youths are now unemployed. To crown it all, GDP shrank by a record 13.8% in the year to the first quarter, putting Turkey among the economies worst hit by the global recession The IMF expects the economy to contract by 5.1% this year, after registering average annual growth of 6% in the past six years.

When the global financial storm struck in the autumn of 2008, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, boasted that "the crisis has bypassed Turkey". He also claimed that there was no need for his country to renew a standby deal with the IMF that expired in May 2008. He has since been forced to eat his words. "We do not have a full-blown crisis, but everything has got significantly worse," says a Western economist in Istanbul. No wonder Mr Erdogan has now begun to talk of doing a deal with the IMF after all.

Turkey's Economy and Society
Whether Turkey gets help form the IMF or not Turkey is financially a bankrupt country and the latest financial crisis further complicated the situation. Hover, the AKP government and Mr.Erdogan are in denial of the facts.

No matter what type of accounting tricks used to present the economical figures to show Turkey's economy is doing well, the following facts on Turkey's economy shows us the real picture.

Here some basic facts on Turkey's economy:

1. External Debt: ~US $280bn Public, ~US $250bn Private, ~Total= US $530bn
2. Foreign trade: In 2008 exports (fob) amounted to US$140.8bn, while imports (fob) were US$193.9bn, leaving trade deficit of US$53.1bn. The export figures include estimates of earnings from so-called "suitcase trade".
3. Interest Rates for Foreign debt: 18 % (No other country in the world borrows money with such a high rate!)
4. Most of the investments are in stock market, not real development, manufacturing or service industries
5. No standard transparency, reliability accountability and traceability in incoming finances (money)
6. Unemployment rate is around 14 % (official government number), 30 % real on the street
7. Financial, Judiciary, Administrative Corruption are widespread
8. No efficient and reliable tax system set up
9. Unregistered, uncontrolled transactions in the economy 70 % and AKP loves it to feed their kin
10. No improvements in the process of opening a business, providing supports for it (roads, communicators, custom regulations, etc.,)
11. When AKP got the power the external debt was around US$40bn.

As easily can be seen form the data given above, no one or country can sustain development and progress in such conditions.

Turkey is, unfortunately, economically bankrupt country. The governing party AKP knows this fact very well and only way to continue with the government is to draw people's attention to different directions to keep people occupied with the "other world's" issues. (Such as Israel)

The mechanism for this for rural part of the country and rural areas is to polish and propagate the regressive Mohammedanism.

In the cities and urban areas is to continue with the propaganda for regressive Mohammedanism and create imaginary terrorist organizations, military coup plans, paranoid suspicions such as latest "document" case, crying victim, and etc.

All these methods are also used to silence the opposition, intellectuals, academicians, writers, thinkers, activists who realize that Turkey's economy is in irreparable state and regressive Mohammedanism ideology taking over all institutions of Turkey.

Unfortunately, around 60 % of the Turkish people in Turkey think that the economy is doing OKAY, and the AKP government is managing the situation.

The other 40 % has been screaming that the future of their grandsons and grand-daughters has already been sold- to lending organizations, and accumulated debt by putting the burden on their 3rd even 4th generations.

Of course the concerned 40 % is not the favourite crowd of the current government AKP and the Prime Minister Mr.Erdogan. The Prime Minister Mr.Erdogan is not also concerned and interested in the views of this 40 %. Mr.Erdogan knows very well that the "happy" 60 % is his target population group and he keeps working with that group.

The target group of Mr.Erdogan can also be further categorized as 10 % who fill their coffers with help from Mr.Erdogan and AKP, and 50 % who lives below the minimal life standard conditions and no hope for the future except what the government can offer to them.

For the 10 % who fill their coffers with help from Mr.Erdogan, there is no problem with the economy in Turkey. They see, think and say: Yeah, there have been some issues with the economy, but hey, is this not the global issue? Praise to God, it will be resolved when it is solved.

For 50 % who lives below the minimal life standard conditions, there is no such thing economy. What is the objective of this group is to close the day with a piece of bread on their table and praise to God, everything will be OK for tomorrow.

For 50 % no hopes, no expectations for the future, no money in the bank, no shares in stock market, no private retirement plan, no insurance plan, etc. They are invited to be more concerned with the issues of the heaven or the hell or covering their women's head to meet the regressive Mohammedanism's demands or should they step out their house with right foot or with left foot.

This is the group Mr.Erdogan loves and focuses on keeping them at bay with injecting the values of regressive Mohammedanism into the minds of the group. Mr.Erdogan accomplishes this by the help of local or national religio-politic interests groups called -Tarikat-s.

These local and national religio-politic interests groups propagates and promotes regressive Mohammedanism in their respective areas in turn it profits the AKP government: Nothing is asked from them, nothing is given by them.

Thus, by being fed with the ideas of regressive Mohammedanism, which eradicates reasoning and rational thinking, the 50 % cares about more about their live in the other world than the world and future of their generations.

The concerned 40 % is not in Mr.Erdogan's radar screen due to the fact that they see things are not going well. Thus, the 40 % is the "enemy" of Mr.Erdogan, democracy, liberalism, human rights and etc.

Also from the perspective of Mr.Erdogan the 40 % is also plots against Mr.Erdogan and his party by planning and supporting Military coups, trying to promote ideas based on reasoning and rationalistic values.

Unfortunately, with this economic conditions and AKP's continuing programs for making the Turkish society regressive Mohammedan, Turkey is on the path of being first Pakistan like country, but not stopping there, and following the path to be Afghanistan like country.

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