Emin Colasan: Some Brief

DYP General Leader Mehmet Agar must be trying to gather votes in Turkey's southeast. Otherwise, why would he be speaking in Kurdish in those regions? It's interesting. I don't think there's really any need to comment on this.The Swiss Foreign Minister comes to Turkey, and stops over in Diyarbakir. Seems like Diyarbakir is becoming "the capitol of Turkey" in the eyes of Europe! We have 81 regions in Turkey, and visitors from abroad, without stepping into hardly any of the other 80, go to Diyarbakir where they then taken from door to door with the Mayor, having who knows what told to them. Nobody knows! And Turkey, because of fear from reaction from the European Union, cannot do anything about this.  ***** Prime Minister Erdogan returned to the earthquake zone in Asia, and made this announcement: "On returning to Turkey, I will have a research group formed, and we will decide what form our help to the victims of this disaster will take." Was this group ever formed? No. Did we later give any help? No. The kind sir and his team made one more trip to the earthquake zone, and did anything come of it? No. Is anyone following this issue? No. ***** Turkey has achieved a 9.9% growth record. This is a world record! But who is benefitting from this growth? Civil servants, workers, small businessmen, farmers, the unemployed, housewives....who? Into whose pockets is entering all of this money? They are using incorrect information to make incorrect pronouncments about the state of the economy, and they are trying to pull the wool over the people's eyes. If there is any growth, it is in the enormous expansion of imports, and in the cheap consumption domestically. And they say exports have climbed. Well, of course they have. Not being able to sell their goods domestically, businesses have been forced to look outside the country for sales, and this usually means at a loss. Is there another solution? A car which is being sold for 40 billion domestically is sold for 10 billion as an export, and we say that exports are increasing.Â