Those who resist are unmasking the regime

Policy Service

Unable to find solutions to the country's burning problems and having no stories left to tell the public, the Palace administration is trying to build a founding regime.

The government, which relies on the US and Trump and is trying to grab a role in the redesign of the Middle East, is presenting to the public an alliance model supported from the outside by Erdoğan, Bahçeli and Öcalan, along with the peace process, as if it were its own “local and national” project.

This model, which is presented as a Turkish, Kurdish and Arab alliance that they call the “Spirit of Manzikert and Jerusalem” and which tries to separate Türkiye from the West and turn its face completely to the Middle East, does not include labor, peace, freedom, human rights, nature, women and secularism.

This narrative, based on pan-Islamic, sectarian, and ethnic principles, is being foisted upon millions through neo-Ottomanist policies. US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack's assertion during his visit to Izmir that the "Ottoman nation system" was the most suitable model for Turkey was a virtual confession of the structure being established. The government, which presents all these moves as a grand project and wants only these policies to be discussed in public, knows it cannot survive otherwise and believes it can only prolong its existence through these policies.

DO NOT TALK ABOUT BURNING ISSUES

Despite the fact that almost every public opinion poll shows the country's biggest problems as the economic crisis, unemployment, and financial hardship, the Palace alliance wants to focus on other issues. While a false sense of spring is being created in one part of the country, mayors are being arrested in the other. More than four months have passed since the March 19th operations, and even indictments haven't been prepared, mayors with health issues are being denied release. While trustees are appointed to municipalities, citizens who speak out, object, and demand their rights, and journalists who practice their profession, are being imprisoned.

Despite the public's pressing concerns, Parliament is wasting its time pursuing profiteering and plunder. Regulations allowing olive groves to be opened to mining and mining operations to begin before the completion of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process are being rushed through Parliament. Despite high inflation and deepening poverty, the demand for an interim minimum wage increase remains undiscussed. Retirees are forced to live on poverty wages, while the demands of public workers are ignored.

While Erdoğan and Bahçeli continue to spout tales of the country's rise, the government, which is trying to silence the opposition with the judicial stick, seeks to perpetuate the regime with minority support. The government, which is attempting to build a regime where elections are a mere formality, ballot boxes are held for show, and the opposition is completely silenced, faces millions protesting for a different Türkiye.

THERE ARE THOSE WHO RESIST THE GAME

The university students who broke through the barricades following the March 19 coup, the millions who gathered in Saraçhane, the boycott that spread throughout the country, the high school students who stood up for their teachers, the farmers who blocked roads with their tractors, the life defenders who protected their trees, water, and nature in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, the parents who stood up for secularism, the people who took to the streets from Yozgat to Trabzon, from Konya to Bayburt and raised their voices against injustices – all are aware of the game being set up.

Yesterday, the "Labor, People, and Nature"-themed rally organized by the SOL Party in the Şavşat district of Artvin attracted attention not only for its enthusiasm and massive participation, but also for its holistic defense of demands such as labor, freedom, nature, peace, anti-imperialism, and secularism against the regime. Hundreds of citizens in attendance unanimously declared their commitment to intensifying the common struggle against the regime. Those who oppose the Palace administration, which seeks to survive by relying on imperialists and resorting to ethnic, pan-Islamic, and sectarian policies, stand as the most powerful force capable of thwarting all the regime's schemes.