If you were to follow a lion in the Serengeti Savannah all day long and witness his struggle for survival, you would be happy that at the end of the day he caught and ate a gazelle. But if you started the same story by following the gazelle and watched it struggle for its life, you would be outraged that it was eaten by a lion.
In short, if you choose the starting point differently, the same event can create 2 different judgments in a person. Therefore, one’s sense of justice depends on which story one follows and for how long. I feel like a documentary filmmaker in the Serengeti Savannah when I travel across Anatolia and Thrace on behalf of EKONOMI daily.
TURKEY’S LUMINOUS FACE IN THE DARKNESS
Either I will start my day in organized industrial zones, factories, R&D and centers of excellence, or I will be filled with depressing macroeconomic data such as recession and inflation. When I choose the former, I see a very bright Turkey; when I choose the latter, I see a dark picture.
Today, our country has also fallen out of the G20… With its inflation, exchange rate, cost of living, financial squeeze and many other parameters, it is a country trying to remove the wreckage of the Heterodox scourge… However, with its production, innovation and value-added breakthrough in more than 250 sectors spread across the country, it looks like the 16th economy as it did 30 years ago…
TWO QUESTIONS AND TWO ANSWERS
What is on the bright side?
First of all, there is an incredible effort. Our miracle companies have started to flourish in Organized Industrial Zones. Innovations that make a worldwide impact are being born, the number of entrepreneurs on their way to becoming unicorns is increasing… Every day, we read glittering success news in our newspaper that is left in the blind spot of the media…
What is in the dark side?
There is inflation, the cost of living. There is nepotism. There is the currency scourge, there is dollarization, there is unemployment… As if that was not enough, there is corruption, there is a CDS in the 400s, there is the problem of debt collection. There are difficulties in accessing finance, erosion of business ethics, and mismanagement. Because of all these, Turkey’s bright face remains in the dark…
WE CAN RETURN TO THE G20 AND BECOME THE 16TH LARGEST ECONOMY
In a world going through a troubled period, depending on which muscle it strengthens, our country can either continue to skid in the middle-income trap or return to the G20 and become the 16th economy as it used to be. Of course, this depends on getting rid of the vicious agenda imposed on us…
Don’t look at the depressing economic picture… Despite the mismanagement, our people, engineers, entrepreneurs and industrialists continue to produce throughout the country; even though we ignore them and make their lives more difficult, they strive to exist and develop the country.
You grow what you feed. Turkey will either appreciate, support and grow its bright face. Or it will wallow in the economic mess we are in. The decision is ours…
