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On Sunday, March 31, while elections were being held in Turkey, Easter was being celebrated in France.
12 thousand people were baptized in France that day.
That evening, while Türkiye was surprised by the election results, the French Catholic church was also expressing its surprise at this figure.
From here, I will make a call to the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Türkiye…
But first, let me go back to Thursday morning.
WHAT THE 5 PEOPLE PASSING ME SAID BEFORE THE PLANE TAKEN OFF
Yesterday, when I sat down on the THY plane to go to Paris, 5 people passing by me said, “It’s going to be a nice trip, isn’t it, Ertuğrul Bey?”
It goes without saying that you would not have to live in this country to not understand that this sentence means “March 31st was good.”
There is this relief throughout the country.
Let me tell you that the reasonable AKP members I talked to have the same feeling…
AIRPORT HOTEL TAXI COST 65 EURO, I TIPED 10 EURO
When I got into the taxi to go to the hotel where I would stay in Paris, music was playing that turned my comfort into great happiness.
A song that I know and love very much…
Stravinsky’s “The Firebird ballet suite…”
And with the interpretation of 1911, released last year, by Klaus Makela, the young Finnish conductor of the Paris Orchestra, one of my favorite conductors in recent years…
The classical music radio the driver was listening to continued all the way to my hotel…
The taximeter read 65 Euros…
I gave him 10 euros on top of that.
I don’t like the word tip at all…
I paid this money as the entrance fee to the wonderful taxi concert…
THE RICARDO MUTI OF THE 20TH CENTURY LEAVES IT TO THE MAKELA OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Finnish chef Klaus Makela is only 31 years old.
He spent extraordinary periods at the helm of the Paris Orchestra.
It was announced last week.
He will be the head of the Chicago Symphony, one of the most important orchestras in the world, starting from 2027.
Moreover, he will take this duty from one of the most legendary chefs of the 20th century, Ricardo Muti.
Makela will also serve as musical director of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.
In music, 21st Century children are now taking over the most important duties from 20th Century conductors.
IN POLITICS, IT IS STILL THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
Unfortunately, there is still a castle left behind by the ruins of the 20th century…
Politics…
Moreover, autocratic leaders with a mentality left over from the first 40 years of the 20th century are among the countries that will most determine the fate of the world…
USA, China, Russia, India, Iran, Israel, Hamas…
On March 31, Türkiye took a very important step to carry its politics into the 21st Century…
Can he achieve this…
Hopefully…
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF FRANCE ANNOUNCED A FIGURE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2016
As soon as I stepped into Paris, I read a very interesting article.
Also in Figaro, a right-liberal newspaper…
Last Sunday was Easter in France.
The French Catholic church published statistics for the first time since 2016 on the evening of March 31.
12 thousand people were baptized in churches in one day.
This figure meant a 31 percent increase compared to last year.
In 2021, this figure was 4973…
The French Catholic church has stopped disclosing the number of annual baptisms since 2016.
SINCE 2000, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH APHITIZATION HAS DECREASED FROM 400 THOUSAND TO 200 THOUSAND
Because between 2000 and 2022, the number of people baptized annually in the church decreased from 400 thousand to 200 thousand.
A tremendous “movement away from religion” was observed in society.
In this despair, the church was ashamed and afraid to reveal the figures…
But be careful…
Of the people who went to church and were baptized last Sunday, 7135 were adults and 5025 were teenagers.
In other words, there was a dramatic decrease in the increase in the number of postnatal baptisms among the core Christian segment from birth.
STAND TIGHT NOW, WHO WERE THE 400 OF THOSE WHO WERE BAPTIZED ON MARCH 31?
Now hold tight…
Last Sunday, 400 of those baptized were adults who converted from Islam to Christianity.
The rate of those who converted from Islam to Christianity and were baptized reached 5 percent…
So the escape from religion continues in France…
The French are from Catholicism, some Muslims are from Islam…
In other words, even the great humanitarian initiatives of the new Pope cannot save Catholicism.
I HAVE BEEN CALLING THE RELIGIOUS FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS: EXPLAIN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GOING TO THE MOSQUE
What about in Turkey…
What did Cüppeli Ahmet, who was completely disgraced on the evening of March 31, say last year?
The number of people going to mosque dropped to 10 percent…
Since then, no one has denied this.
I have been calling and asking the Directorate of Religious Affairs for the last 15 years.
I suggest you publish statistics on the number of people going to mosque in Turkey.
The answer I get every time is this:
“We don’t have statistics on this.
Diyanet, which announces the number of mosques it has built every day, does not disclose the number of people going to those mosques.
Religious Affairs Directorate, which issues fatwas on every ridiculous issue you can even think of, does not have the slightest information about the number of people going to mosques…
However, there is no need to conduct a survey for this.
Diyanet, which increases its budget three to five times every year, does not have a statistics department…
Is it very difficult to learn this?
Put an official in front of Çamlıca Mosque and count the number of people prostrating at all times…
Tell TUIK it will issue it in three days.
They can’t explain it… They don’t want it to be known…
Because if it becomes known where that number falls, the superstition they have imposed on politics will collapse like a sand castle:
“Sir, a party that cannot win the mosque community cannot be successful…”
I’ve been saying this again for years.
Sociologically, the phrase “mosque community” is a superstition. There is no such homogeneous group of social behavior.
THE DISTRICT OF HAGIA SOFIA, WHERE THE IFTAR WAS HELD THE EVENING AGO, IS ALMOST BAŞABAŞ.
The AKP is participating in this election with a Rabia sign in hand, a political iftar in Hagia Sophia, photos of the visit to Ismailaga the night before, the Minister of National Education in Istanbul, who banned New Year’s Eve celebrations in schools, but did not remain silent when some teachers, followers of the sects with whom he said he would cooperate, set up model graves in the classrooms of young children. With huge mosques resembling plastic models of the Çamlıca Mosque erected in every district, banning New Year’s celebrations, and members of the Religious Affairs Directorate who said, “Anyone who not only drinks alcohol, but also produces, carries, sells, serves it, and keeps it in their hotels is an atheist,” became soldiers of a propaganda unprecedented in our history.
And they did this in the holy month of Ramadan.
But what happened?
The President of Religious Affairs, who reconquered Hagia Sophia with a sword in his hand and placed it at the disposal of Islam, almost lost the district where Hagia Sophia is located to a party that represents secularism.
Doesn’t all this tell anything to the AKP?
DEAR PRESIDENT, HAVE YOU EVER ASKED WHAT CITIZENS UNDERSTAND WHEN WE SAY GAZA?
In his speech to AKP members after the election, President Erdoğan said, “We could not even explain the Gaza issue, on which we were most right, to the public.”
Let’s be frank…
Let’s agree on this first.
Why are we right in Gaza?
Is it because of the human tragedy happening there?
Or is it to protect the last stronghold of the Brotherhood, which has vanished throughout the Muslim world?
Let’s answer sincerely.
Let’s know that as long as that Rabia sign remains, people will perceive it as support for “Mujahid Hamas”.
That’s why, whenever you say Gaza, what comes to the citizen’s mind is not the human drama and tragedy there, but the 5 million immigrants coming from Syria.
In other words, he remembers the outcome of the most historical mistake in our foreign policy…
As we remember those 5 million immigrants, 1-2 million new immigrants, including those from Gaza, are coming.
Tell me, in this case, can you explain to this people in the election arena the issue of “Gaza, where we are most right”?
I HAVE BEEN TELLING MY AKP FRIENDS SINCE 2002: RELIGIOUSNESS DID NOT BRING YOU TO POWER.
In 2002, religiosity and “headscarf victimization” did not bring you to power. He brought in people who were fed up with ANAP-DYP corruption.
Remember, you came to that seat by saying, “We took off our National Vision shirt.” Your efforts for EU membership, your unifying and conciliatory attitude in the Alliance of Civilizations, and Erdoğan, who is liberal and wants justice, increased the votes to 50 percent.
Not the mosque community… This is not the absurd fatwas of the Diyanet, on the contrary, it brought a modern and liberal understanding of conservatism there.
Your National Education inspectors, who asked “Have you opened a mosque here?”, the first thing they did when they went to inspect the schools, did not carry you to 50 percent… The imam-hatip schools you opened remained empty, but you thought of nothing but filling the quotas by force.
You have always perceived the desperation caused by the obsoleteness of the Opposition among the electorate as an approval, a vote of confidence in you.
It takes you there to raise the middle class by implementing the Kemal Derviş program flawlessly, without getting caught up in any complexes; You ignored what your libertarian, inclusive policies carry…
THE FOOLISH CREW ASSEMBLED ON THE DECK AGAIN
Now is the time to re-evaluate…
Just close your ears to the talking heads and trolls of your neighborhood…
Those mediocre columnists have already found the golden triangle…
“The excuse for a raise that is not given to retirees”, “Resentful but wishing for votes to come back”, “Arrogant district mayor, consolation of the neighborhood representative” and “Don’t worry, we will come back stronger than before” fortune-telling…
Oh my reasonable AKP brother;
As you know; AKP large body aircraft…
If the head is lying 80 degrees down…
With the dice thrown by this foolish crew in newspaper and television columns, this Jumbo jet will not take off and this wish will not come true.
And now pay attention…
In the presidential seat of Istanbul, a city with a population of 16 million, where President Erdoğan came, sits a politician whose secularism is beyond doubt, who received his certificate of election by reading the Quran…
So, there is no benefit for Erdoğan from this Diyanet head anymore…
There are no votes from the mosque, but there are still many votes from the temples of freedom, justice, human rights, merit, mercy and humility.
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