Emine Erdogan's expensive bag and watch, the people looking for food in the garbage and the ambitions to occupy even αποτελούν Thessaloniki are a sample of the explosive mix that composes the economic, social and political reality in Turkey.
The years that the Turkish citizen has to work to buy the bag and watch of Emine, the wife of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were calculated by the Turkish website boldmedya.
As he notes, the cost of Emine Erdogan's $ 50 Hermes bag is rising exponentially.
The bag and the watch…
While at the beginning of the year a worker with the minimum wage to buy a Hermes bag had to work 132 months, after the astronomical increase in foreign exchange he had to work 208 months (17,5 years).
The worker with the minimum wage to get a Hermes bag must work an additional 6,5 years.
Emine Erdogan, who is known to close stores abroad for herself because of her passion for luxury, wears a Chopard wristwatch priced at 30.000 euros.
At the beginning of the year, in order for a minimum wage earner to buy it, he had to work for 97 months and now, after the currency shock, he has to work for 140 months (12 years).
… People and garbage…
At the same time, a video that sees the light of day shows people picking up food from the trash.
In the video that follows, a citizen informs the journalist about the people who collect food from the garbage…
From 0:50 to the end of the video the 3 people can be seen… choosing from the trash…
https://twitter.com/YolTV/status/1472888157934866443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1472888157934866443%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomytoday.sigmalive.com%2Foikonomia%2Fkosmos%2F43419_posa-hronia-prepei-na-doyleyoyn-oi-toyrkoi-gia-na-agorasoyn-tin-tsanta-tis
Or Turkish nationalism
The solution to all these problems is for the well-known Yigit Bulut, one of Erdogan's top advisers and a member of the Presidential Economic Policy Council, the occupation of Thrace, and, why not, of Thessaloniki.
This, after all, he wrote in a post on Twitter:
"If the world imperial structure continues to attack the great Turkish nation in every field, then the great Turkish nation will return to the borders of the National Oath."
https://twitter.com/yigitbulutt/status/1472911015914635267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1472911015914635267%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomytoday.sigmalive.com%2Foikonomia%2Fkosmos%2F43419_posa-hronia-prepei-na-doyleyoyn-oi-toyrkoi-gia-na-agorasoyn-tin-tsanta-tis
Wanting to demonstrate the downfall of the regime, the well-known exiled Turkish intellectual Mehmet Efe Çaman interpreted Bulut's sad statements.
"Erdogan's chief adviser, Mr Bulut, is threatening the world with expansion over the continuing devaluation of the pound," said Mr Chaman, quoting Bulut.
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The national oath
The Turkish national oath is the declaration, in 1920, of six points of the Turkish nationalists that sets the borders of the future Turkish Republic, on the borders of the defeated Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which include, "the areas of Kirkuk, Thessaloniki , Aleppo and Mosul ".