The overnight rich phenomenon and the hidden economy in Türkiye

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, at the same time as the economic crisis continues In Turkey, the eyes of many experts and economists of this country are focused on the issue of taxes. Because tax is the main source of income for the Turkish government, and according to an old tradition, a list of big tax payers is published every year so that everyone knows that by paying large amounts of tax, they contribute to the economic development of the country and increase the amount of production, services and employment. , have played a significant role.

But this year a strange thing happened and a significant number of large taxpayers did not allow their names to be published.

Ali Babajan, the leader of Jahash and Democracy Party, said: “Among the 100 rich people in our country who paid the most taxes to the government treasury, 76 of them did not allow their names to be published. This is a very important event and we must analyze the dimensions of such an issue properly. Why does someone who operates in a halal and correct economic path consider it necessary to hide the amount of tax he pays?”

Babajan’s question is so important that Abbas Bilgili, a Turkish lawyer , examined it and in an analytical note, examined the issue of whether it is possible to consider hiding wealth and taxes as normal? He has investigated the dimensions of this story from the point of view of the famous German sociologist Max Weber and also from the point of view of the deceased Turkish sociologist Sabri Olgner. His views on the reasons for the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the economic and sociological pathology of Turkey are still of interest to experts.

The liquidation period Ottoman in Turkey, still continues

Max Weber says: the driving force of capitalism is Protestant or protestant morality. In his famous work entitled Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, he defends the view that concepts such as profession, trade, production and earning, economic rationality and how to use the money earned in the growth of businesses, with ethics.

According to Weber, work, profit, art and craftsmanship, while they seemed low and dirty, became virtues respected by all with the Protestant innovation, But in any case, it is against the adventurous and anti-rational capitalism, and capital should not go towards feudal feelings and a kind of luxury. He mentions the reasons for the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and believes that the new concept of “collapse period” in Turkey should be correctly defined. He says: Those reasons stated for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire , should not follow the same logic as it follows in the case of other world empires. According to Professor Olenger, the period of collapse in the Ottoman Empire had economic and moral reasons more than anything else, and it started from the 15th and 16th centuries and continues even to this day.

In other words The other “era of liquidation” continues and we in Turkey are still declining and liquidating. The concept of “working” gained a respectable place in the West, but in the Ottoman Empire, merchants and even professionals They considered the rich as thugs and humiliated them!

As a result, normal and humane ways of acquiring wealth and income were blocked and wealth accumulation based on influence in the imperial system became popular. And people were able to get extraordinary profits by connecting to the center of power. Max Weber calls this method of wealth accumulation “irrational income”. At the same time, the great Islamic scientist, Ibn Khaldun, believes that if the way of making a living with natural work and trade, crafts and agriculture is blocked for people, people will go for unusual ways.

As the famous Turkish sociologist Prof. Olgner emphasized, the wider and open the ways of earning money, the fewer people will resort to unusual ways, and the narrower or closed the ways of work and earning are halal and normal. What’s more, more people resort to unusual ways of income.

This is where we find out how important Ali Babajan’s words are. He asked: Why do 76 people out of 100 big taxpayers in Turkey not want their names to be disclosed? The answer is: Many of these people are terrified and say to themselves, “If my taxes are revealed, they will get my wealth by simple multiplication and division and everyone will attack me.” ».

Naturally, this fear and panic is often with people who got rich very “quickly” and “sneaky”! Those who have strong relations with the government and the presidential institution, those who have huge financial rents at their disposal, people who simultaneously receive three or four astronomical salaries and high figures, not in a normal and natural way but through connection with the channel. power, have achieved unnatural wealth. Therefore, these are examples that show that the mentality and ethics of the era of collapse continue. Image/1402/10/12/1402101215562080329113924.jpg”/>

Our economic historians say: At the same time that the Ottoman Empire created a huge army called “Yeni Cheri” Many of their names were in the register of Yeni Cheri army members, but they did not go to the army and war even for a single day! Why? Because they could receive free fodder for their horses by relying on the fact that their names are registered in Yeni Cheri’s office!

Today, many of our party and political municipalities have employees. who have not even gone to work for a single day. But their names are registered and they receive their salaries at the beginning of the month! So, the morals of the Ottoman era, which began five hundred and six hundred years ago, are still valid! attacked, they were pawns of big thieves who, in the name of businessman and capitalist, could greet the Ottoman sultan and talk to him in public and special times!

Today Dilan Polat, who was imprisoned for fraud and money laundering of several billion dollars, has many photos with President Erdogan! Many heads of drug mafia networks have also met with Suleiman Soylu, the former minister of the country, and taken a picture with him! The group is divided into: 1. Making money through violence and coercion. 2. Income from compliance and stealthy wealth acquisition. 3. Income from deception and fraud.

Today in Turkey, there are all three types of income. We have both mafia and extortionists and magicians and fraudsters. But the group that earns stealthy income and wealth through power rents and communication with country officials are the most dangerous.

They have access to information rents, with high officials. They are friends and have such influence that they do not circumvent the law, but “change” the law. We live in a Turkey where the law on public tenders has been changed dozens of times so that, in the end, people and companies that are the backbone of the ruling party win!

Definitely Extortion and banditry in the traditional way and blocking the roads to steal from caravans is the crudest way possible, while making a profit through bidding is a hassle-free task and has multi-billion dollar revenues.

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