‘This nature’ has a serious problem with us

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the Women and Justice Summit yesterday, hosted by the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM). He, purely coincidentally, said, “You cannot bring women and men into equal positions; that is against nature [creation].”

The word he used is “fıtrat,” which translates into nature or creation.

And I think this nature has a serious problem with us!

For instance, the nature of being a Cabinet minister is making an umrah trip to Saudi Arabia with the private plane of a “new rich” businessman and wearing a watch worth 700,000 Turkish Liras.

The nature of holding a position as the general manager of a state bank, for example, is keeping millions of dollars in shoe boxes at your home.

And, for instance, in the nature of the worker and the civil servant, the annual pay rise for 2015 is deemed appropriate as a rise of 3 + 3 percent. 

In the nature of the mine worker and of the construction worker, or simply, the nature of the worker, there is death.

In the nature of the advisor, though, is kicking the person who has already been brought down by Special Forces. Kicking the person who is already on the ground, who is a relative of a miner, who is using his right to protest the Soma mine massacre, may be in your nature as an advisor, but it is also in the nature of this advisor to be protected as if nothing has happened and continue keeping your advisory position.

In the nature of the farmer, is selling your produce for the cheapest price ever, to be in a position where you would give away your land, having succumbed to imported products.

In the nature of the farmer who went up to the prime minister in protest and said, “Mr. Prime Minister,...