Forest Fires Are the Result of the Incompetence, Apathy, and Attitudes of Inefficient Officials
News:
The Turkish Minister of Health, Kamal Memish Oglu, announced via his official account on the X platform: "So far, forest fires have injured 538 people. We are currently treating three injured people, one of whom is in critical condition. Unfortunately, two citizens have lost their lives." (Oxu.Az, 07/04/2025)
Comment:
Forest fires! That disaster that we have become accustomed to in Turkey every summer. And who is behind it? Incompetent, ignorant officials, who care only about serving their masters and stuffing their pockets. And they always evade responsibility by arbitrarily blaming the extreme heat or the people! In their view, they are pure angels, and the criminal is either the sun or the people! But alas! If there is a problem, they are the officials themselves, they are the origin of the disease and the cause of every misfortune. Weren't they called officials for this reason? But no! Because of their absolute negligence, their complete ignorance, their endless greed, and their betrayal of the people's trust for the sake of their masters, and their turning the people into mere numbers in ballot boxes, they deserve only one name, which is vote brokers.
The rain falls, and Turkey is flooded! The earthquake strikes, and the country collapses under the rubble! The heat intensifies, and the fires consume it! The frost arrives, and everything freezes! The snow falls, and life is paralyzed! And do not think that the incompetence and ignorance of the rulers stop at this limit! These are only the disasters that we have become accustomed to every year. And there are a thousand other misfortunes that they have failed to face. Is this the first time they have seen these disasters that they do not know how to act?! Every year the same tragedies, but because of these ignorant rulers, who have no mind or memory, the country is burning today with their fires! Leave aside the economic fire, that's another story! And in the end, who pays the bill? We do! The people are the ones who taste the bitterness of their negligence and stupidity. The war breaks out, and the people die... but not them! The earthquake strikes, and the residents are buried under the rubble... but not them! The floods come, and the people drown... but not them!
We have said it and we will continue to say it: the greatest disaster facing the nation today is its rulers. They are the engineers and the cause of various problems, whether they are civil wars as in Sudan and Yemen, or exorbitant prices as in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and other Muslim countries, or genocide as in Gaza and the West Bank, or extreme poverty as in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and other countless problems. Unless the nation gets rid of these treacherous and agent rulers, we will continue to face these problems, but perhaps even greater ones. For this reason, we affirmed that the great disaster that has befallen the nation is its rulers. And when we get rid of this mother of disasters, we will get rid of the other disasters automatically.
Therefore, these rulers are the root of the disease and the crux of every misfortune! They are the head of the snake! If this head is cut off, their bond will be broken and their structure will collapse, and all the knots will be untied, and all the problems that we know and do not know will be dissipated, and they will inevitably be solved by God's permission and power!
O Muslim Ummah, and O our people in Turkey: If you want to escape from the fires of the forests, you must first extinguish the fires that your rulers have ignited. If we do not extinguish this fire, our chests are burning today, but tomorrow, by God, the whole country will burn and become hell. Therefore, we must bury this fire forever so that it does not return. And the way to do that is one and there is no other! The only way to salvation is: that we bury this ash in the soil, and plant on its ruins the tree of the Rightly Guided Caliphate that shades the entire nation.
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Ercan Tekinbas