"Mehmet Ali Birand: Why do you expect everything from the state?
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Mehmet Ali BIRAND
Just look at yourself, your family and those around you and you'll see it. We have a habit that is incurable. I guess it started with the Ottoman Empire, with everyone considered to be the state's servants. However, the habit of generations continued through the republican era.
The image of �Father State� has become a part of us.
Let's worship the state, let's become slaves to it so that it protects us and provides for us. In the past, you might remember the official statements and the media talking about the �compassionate state� or the state as the �father of the poor.� These were the secret instructions instilled in all of us by the state. "
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