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Can Okar
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I’m back in Turkey after a long time away. Already plenty of anecdotes about the economy but for now, I’m reunited with Trafo.

She is the best cat. Ever.
Just to be clear, this beauty is a proper Turkish street cat. She is Trafo from the Block. Here she is when I first picked her up off the street. The biggest eared, longest tailed, most beautiful cat ever:
I miss her so much. Before you ask, she couldn’t come to Switzerland with us - my travel is too much for now and we knew no-one there to cat-sit. But Trafo and I are family forever now :) My mum is learning to be a babaanne through her...
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Can Okar
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Turkish football has hit a financial brick wall. The big clubs are all swimming in debt and the interest rate shock from the summer is now endangering all the major clubs. I'll add a bit of flavour to the podcast we recorded below in this thread but please do listen.
The debt situation was already problematic before the two interest rates hikes last year but with interest rates now at 24%, the costs of financing debt have become simply unsustainable.
Turkish football clubs have to pay significantly more interest than the Central Bank rates (because they aren't exactly credit-worthy organisations).

In the last six months, the interest clubs pay on their massive debts has gone up significantly. The next tweet should scare you.
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Can Okar
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1,881 (Atatürk’s year of birth) x ₺2,500 (loadsamoney) = ₺4,702,500

Anyone who gets annoyed at the way the AKP monetises Islam should be furious that opposition writers use base symbolism to fleece Atatürk’s legacy.

Apparently Turkish opposition writing is now a luxury good.
The fact he sells it at 09:05 (Atatürk died at that time) is one additional bit of abuse of a dead leader’s legacy. The fact that you can sell books at well over the monthly minimum wage at a time of economic crisis is indicative of sheer greed.
In a capitalist world, every product has its price and market or the seller loses out. Either we are about to find out that abuse of Atatürk’s legacy is unacceptable or we will find 1,881 idiots who are as responsible for what Turkey is today as the AKP.
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Can Okar
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“Look at what capitalism does. There are people out there drowning our seaside, our forests in concrete. They don’t care about nature, they just want to cut down trees and run off with the profit.”

Another deeply surreal moment where Erdoğan acts as his own lead opposition.
To be fair to him, the Turkish opposition is woeful and someone had to step up to do it. But it can’t be denied that under his leadership, the whole of Turkey has been bathed in concrete. Election time in Turkey can throw up weird stuff but this is up there in the top 10.
In America, I believe they call this “gaslighting”. I almost feel guilty for having cut down most of Istanbul’s northern forests to build a bridge and an airport. Or perhaps for plastering most of the Black Sea coast with motorways. I mean someone must have done it, right?
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