hello everyone, if you want to understand how wealth actually works in modern Turkey, forget the economics textbooks.
in 2022, Üsame Erdoğan, the president's 31-year-old nephew, put roughly $95,000 of personal capital into a new holding company called 1000 Yatırımlar.
three years later, corporate filings showed an annual net profit of 5 billion liras.
read the actual disclosures filed with Borsa İstanbul and the picture gets stranger. during that entire period of growth, the company generated zero revenue from ordinary sales. no products. no commercial services. an operating loss. the billions on paper came entirely from valuation gains tied to the same network of speculative investment funds that just triggered an $18 billion liquidity collapse and wiped out the savings of 455,758 ordinary citizens.
over the past two weeks, prosecutors detained fund managers, raided brokerage firms, and slapped travel bans on 48 business figures.
Üsame Erdoğan, who holds controlling voting rights in the holding at the center of this network, is not on a single police docket.
in the same country, a man gets arrested for complaining about bread prices in a street interview. an elected mayor sits in silivri facing 2,300 years of charges.
$95,000 in. $388 million in assets out. zero sales. half a million people wiped out. zero phone calls from a prosecutor.
dear Americans, yesterday Erdoğan walked into your United Nations and told the world that international institutions have been "rendered unable to fulfil their mission" by those in power.
let that sit for a moment.
this is the man who just seized 1,326 companies and $32 billion in assets from his own citizens. whose most popular political rival has been in a prison cell for 18 months facing 23 (!) centuries in charges. whose courts are jailing journalists for covering civil society. whose judges get replaced until they deliver the right verdict.
he stood in New York and lectured the planet about institutions being captured by the powerful.
he was describing himself.
Erdoğan does not go to the United Nations to convince anyone that he cares about justice.
he goes because it is the only stage left on earth where he can still perform the role.
the world may be bigger than five.
but modern Turkey is governed by the fear of one.
@ichbinmeltem_@haanozz Bence herkesin boykot etme secenegi farklidir. Kimisi bir urunu kullanmayarak boykot eder, ben daha cok o firmaya yasal yoldan mali yuk olusturmayi seciyorum. Ayrica yasadigim ulkede ucret odemeden urun alip ucretini begenince odeme sistemi oldugu icin bunu yazdim.
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(must be following)
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flags the weakest shot of their signature dish
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rebuilds that exact plate into a cinematic 9:16 reel
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every step from the scrape to the reel to the mailbox is automated
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Siyasetin kendi içindeki kör dövüşü, asıl büyük trajediyi perdelerken Türkiye adeta Ursula K. Le Guin’in Omelas şehrine dönüşüyor. Tek bir acı farkla: Bizim karanlık bodrumumuzda tek bir çocuk değil, hukuksuzlukla kaybedilen koca nesiller, adli işlemlerle sivil ölüme terk edilmiş milyonlar var.
Ana muhalefetin iktidarın ürettiği "iltisak" diskurunu benimseyip birbirini suçlaması, bizzat bu hukuksuzluğu meşrulaştırmaktan başka işe yaramıyor.
İktidarın sınırlarını çizdiği o dili reddederek, o bodrumun kapılarını hep birlikte kıracağımız bir "üçüncü alternatif" inşa etmek zorundayız. Evrensel hukuka ve AİHM kararlarına amasız fakatsız sahip çıkmak, bu aydınlık başlangıcın ilk adımıdır. @serbestiyetweb için yazdım. @herkesicinCHP@eczozgurozel@kilicdarogluk