Can Turks Be Trusted With Their Own Future?

Turks are not yet mature enough to make their future. I assure that it could be true in the past. However this situation starts to change a little bit because new generation is aware of what is going on in Turkey’s politics. Likewise new generation try to change this fate which people do not interrogate the policies. For example when people see something is wrong for them, they protest to show their reaction. It can be said that this is result of education because education rate has been increasing.

Awareness of Turkish people is increasing. According the reaction of people about politics, people want to show their opinions. For example PKK have killed lots of soldier and Turkey’s public make constraints to start the fight against the PKK. Moreover, the public of Turkey has shown their reaction about ladies wearing headscarves in the schools and public instutions. However, millitary think that the goverment of Turkey are not sufficient about politics and Turks do not yet enough mature to make their own future because millitary claims that people still do not know about the rest of the world.

On the other hand there are some other examples. There are a lot of Turks who have been indebted because of their credit cards. The president of Ankara Chamber of Commerce, Sinan Aygün claims that the interest rates for credit card depths are too high. I agree with him. When you put your money to a bank, the interest rate is 18-20 % per year but the interest rate for credit card depths is over 60 % per year. The difference is very big. Nobody protests because of high interest rates at banks. Everything is under the control of banking elites.

In conclusion, Turks are under the elite and military control. I assure that people can manage their future. As Kinzer said “If they can find a way to break free, Turkey will astonish the world by becoming the most audaciously successful nation of the twenty-first century”. Thus ruling elite should give a chance to people for their own future. However Turks should be aware of the politics.