Emin Colasan: Visa questions

There are a few things bothering me! If I were to ask, I wonder whether I would get an answer from the Erdogan family, or from the Prime Ministerial offices, or from the Dutch Embassy? Did the Prime Minister's son, Burak Erdogan, apply to the Dutch Embassy for an EU visa for himself and his wife?Did he give all the documents that were required (like plane tickets, hotel reservations, information regarding personal income, health insurance) of him, not leaving out anything? Did the Dutch Embassy then make him wait for days? When it was clear that a visa was not going to be awarded, did the Prime Ministerial offices then withdraw the application? Did they then arrange for Burak Erdogan and his wife to get their visas from the German Embassy? Did these things happen, or not? Maybe someone will decide to tell us the truth. Then at least we can learn whether or not the visa application process and the long lines that degrade the Turkish people happen only to ordinary members of our society, or to members of the Prime Minister's family too!  The real portrait vs. the rosy portrait There are constantly rosy portraits of reality being painted in Turkey; there is a desire to mislead our people with lies: "We have grown 10%....Inflation is under control....Everybody is trying to make investments....Our income is growing like mad....We're out of control!....Our people are affluent, and as the situation goes, it's getting even better...!" Well, the truth is so much different. No one wants to see the painful reality. Even when a little of this reality creeps into the media, no one much wants to focus on it.  Professor Ayse Yuksel from Van's 100th Year University has said: "We have 13,000 students. Of these, only 100 or so can eat three meals a day. The rest get by with a bun for the day. In order not to spend their money, students try not to leave their homes or their dormitories, and use their rights to stop going to class for as long as possible. At our university, we can only give 1,000 students a free lunch every day. We distribute rations to another 1,000 students every day. The rest of the 11,000 students are unable to afford the lunch which is available for just 1 million TL a day. Those students coming in from the provinces eat potato sandwiches or boiled eggs every day."  This is a university in Turkey. The portrait here is terrifying. The portrait here is embarrassing. This is Turkey's reality. The youth to which we are entrusting Turkey's future is forced to live hungry and unhealthily.  I wonder if we were to look at the other Anatolian universities whether they would be different? Of course not.  So, what about that 10% growth figure? Into whose pockets is all the money going? What about the rose colored portraits? Â