By ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ (GREEK) TÜRKÇE (TURKISH)
One of the most fundamental characteristics of modern democracies is transparency. In countries where democracy functions with its institutions and rules, people have the right to access information.
When I say ‘have’, I mean they actually have this right. Otherwise, we also have the right to access information ‘on paper’. Moreover, the Constitution also says so. But when it comes to practice, the opposite is the case.
Even the simplest demographic information is hidden, confidential, and there has never been transparency in this regard.
Obviously, the ‘chief of the tribe’ did not deem it appropriate, no one knows how many people live on this half of the island, the real number of citizens and all the relevant details.
What’s the point, right?
We are governed like a ‘tribe’ anyway!
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Ünal Üstel travelled to Ankara a while ago, and it was announced that a protocol was signed there.
They said that schools, a theological high school, a complex of some sort, roads, infrastructure, etc. would be built.
They gave numbers. They made a lot of speeches.
Has anyone seen, or read that protocol?
Who knows the details?
The opposition didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.
Journalists didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.
Academics didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.
So, who knows?
I don’t know.
But what’s the point anyway?
Let’s not forget, we live under ‘tribal’ conditions!
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In the 2020 elections, all kinds of interventions were made, all the means of the Turkish Republic were used; decisions for congresses and the question of who would become the Prime Minister were all made by ‘someone’, not the society. Since then, ‘obedience’ has been ingrained in the genes of certain segments of society, democracy has been destroyed in this society, and Ankara has become the centre of politics.
They turned the press into a ‘pool’ here too; silenced many writers, programmers and journalists, ‘one way or another’, brought them into line, gave them a fear, intimidated them, or persuaded them with ‘purely emotional methods’ [Editor’s note: ‘Purely emotional methods’ is an ironic way of suggesting, in Turkish, that proposals based on money are involved].
It was not enough though. Now they are coming at us with lawsuits to silence us.
Just last year, all Turkish appointees in Northern Cyprus declared Northern Cyprus as a ‘constituency’ for the 2023 elections and launched a campaign.
With the ambassador, the mufti…
Even the imam!…
We have become unable to say anything even to the imam who praises the AKP in the mosque…
But it is all normal, now that we have become a ‘tribe’!…
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Look what else is going on in the ‘tribe’…
Ali Kishmir is on trial, for instance…
Because that’s what the ‘Upper Hand’ wants [Editor’s note: Reference to prime minister Ünal Üstel, whose surname, when split into, as in Üst-El, reads as Upper Hand] .
Our identity will be changed, by force!
We will be silenced!
Through immigration, population, official propaganda, plenty of money, and force…
Even ‘tribes’ are not ruled like this!
So we’ve passed that level.
We’re not even a ‘tribe’ anymore.
Because at least, tribes have ‘chieftains’…
Could there be a ‘tribe’ that cannot even elect its own chief?
What did Ali Kişmir write? He wrote about Ankara’s meeting for a planned intervention.
So what is the crime in this?
Are those who intervened, those who implemented the intervention, or those who wrote about the intervention guilty?
Now they are shamelessly conducting a ‘trial’ for this disgrace, too.
Get out of here!
This country is not as vacant as you think and Ali Kişmir is not alone!
This article was originally published on 26.11.2024.
