AHBAP or AFAD? What about the Red Crescent?

How can I fool you?

Yes, I think this phrase will sound familiar to you. 

Why are we like this? Is it in our nature to deceive?

I don't think it is in our nature to deceive, but to doubt everything. 

So why do we doubt everything? 

Have our experiences taught us this?

They say don't trust even your father, I won't say the rest.

We teach our children to deceive when they are still young. Sometimes while playing games, sometimes while feeding them, we try to get them to open their mouths so that we can stuff a spoonful of food into their mouths, while at the same time trying to feed them.

However, hungry baby birds open their mouths wide and squeal for their mothers to feed them too. 

A hungry newborn baby also shows that it is hungry. At least it cries.

But still, when he reaches a certain age, we try to get him to eat by playing with him and tricking him a bit.

Sometimes, because we don't want to deal with him at that moment, we put something in front of him and ask him to play, so we actually teach our children to deceive with games.

Then the growing child starts to deceive those around him/her, knowing that this is beneficial for him/her. On the other hand, growing up with this perspective causes people to doubt everything.

Each person knows another person as himself. So maybe we are actually doubting ourselves.

Now is the time for unity. Our country is going through a very big earthquake disaster. 

A lot of aid is being collected and delivered to the region.

Although there are complaints from the region that it is not possible to distribute the aid in a fair way due to the intense emotions of the first days and the lack of coordination.

But the aid is still going on. Even though there are some setbacks, it seems to have settled down for now.

Do you think the aid will continue with the same sensitivity and feelings after these first days have passed?

I think there will be a bit of complacency and people will stop helping the region as they did in the first days.

On the one hand, there will be news about who is profiting from the aid provided and to whom.

This has happened in previous disasters.  

So after a while, people will start to have doubts and they will gradually cut off their aid.

I can say that there are already doubts about this, especially about state organizations. 

Many people prefer Mr. Haluk Levent's AHBAP for aid, because if we send aid to state organizations, it will be misused.

Isn't that sad?

Instead of AFAD, the respected disaster organization of the Republic of Turkey, or KIZILAY, the valuable organization of our republic, AHBAP, a non-governmental organization, is preferred for aid!

The upper echelons of the state must have been very upset by this situation, as they preferred to use smear campaigns and various political pressures on AHBAP with different pressures. 

For now, AHBAP has withstood these pressures and is carrying out its mission transparently. But if the pressures increase, it is not possible to know what the outcome will be.

And these pressures are voiced from such mouths that I am surprised how AHBAP is able to withstand this pressure.

I don't know if there are people who are affected by these smear campaigns and start to have doubts about AHBAP, but I can say that there are people who do not have enough trust in state institutions. It is a fact that there is a lack of trust in the institutions of the state!

So, getting back to our topic, why might there be such suspicion about state institutions? 

Have there been some behaviors that have led to a loss of trust?

Of course, many things happened in time. If I were to list them here, pages would not be enough. Even what has been done to dear Nasuh Mahruki's AKUT would be the subject of a separate article.

It is very difficult to gain trust. 

Breaking trust is very simple. 

A single trust-breaking action you take will prevent that trust from being rebuilt. 

It is like a chain where only one link is not strong enough. Even if all the links are extraordinarily strong, because of that one link, that chain cannot carry the necessary load and breaks.

Therefore, not a single link of the institution of trust should be weak!

You will not lose trust!

Now the government is saying that within a year we will build new buildings to replace the destroyed buildings in the cities that were largely destroyed in the earthquake. 

Can this be true? Do you believe these statements?

Some people criticize those in power for saying that they will build houses for you within a year when they cannot even install a toilet in the disaster area. 

And they are not wrong. 

There are still so many problems in the disaster area that the government has really lost a lot of trust in the eyes of the people.

Moreover, it is said that the number of public housing units that the government has been able to build in twenty-odd years is even less than the number of houses that need to be rebuilt due to the earthquake, so it is actually physically impossible to meet the need in one year. 

So, why is the government saying such a thing?

Why, this discourse is yet another operation to deceive the public! 

I think this eagerness to deceive is in our blood. Especially in politicians, this enthusiasm is quite exaggerated. When there are believers, politicians get fired up and start making even more over-the-top statements.

The government and the state are different, in fact, even if they have become a bit confused in recent years, I think they have to be different.

Those in power are political identities. We are used to it as a country, politicians deceive.

But would the state ever deceive its own citizens? 

The state must be trustworthy! Loss of trust in state institutions is something that should not happen.

Normally people trust the state, they have to trust the state. Because the state is powerful, it is the father!

How can a civil society organization be trusted more than a state institution?

O those in power, do you hear what I am saying?

In this country, a civil society organization is trusted more than state institutions! Is this possible?

You cannot prevent this by saying that this and that will not happen, by saying that it should be banned, that the money it collects should be confiscated, that they should not even be on TV, by foaming at the mouth, by hate speech. You cannot do this by defamation.

You will prevent the loss of trust in the institutions of the state. You will fix these institutions. 

If AFAD is a state institution responsible for disasters, it will respond to disasters on time. Even its own building will not be destroyed in earthquake cities. It will take the necessary precautions on time! It will be prepared!

If KIZILAY is an aid institution, you will not use KIZILAY to transfer money to your own foundations under favorable conditions. You will not treat KIZILAY as an intermediary institution.

Then everything will be transparent. 

The money coming in and where the aid is spent will be openly auditable in both institutions. If it is the Court of Accounts, the Court of Accounts, if it is another institution, another institution will audit these institutions.

And you will not appoint just anyone as administrators in these institutions. 

You will give importance to merit. You will make those who know their job managers.

Then these institutions will gain trust with what they do!

Only then will it be possible for these institutions to gain trust in the eyes of the people. 

Before those who can do this come to power, unfortunately, you can only shout and call out that this FELLOW is undermining the trust in the state. 

The state is such a structure that the state is the one for the orphans. It should be like that. It is a safe harbor where you can take refuge when you are in trouble.

State institutions cannot be viewed with suspicion. It cannot be thought that it will deceive us. It should not be so.

Whoever has destroyed the state institutions, he does not love this state. Then it is not appropriate for him to stay in that position.

This earthquake proved once again how unprepared those in power are for a natural disaster.

Let alone the precautions to be taken against the earthquake, which have been neglected all these years, the authorities have failed to respond immediately after the earthquake. 

I hope that this society has realized what has happened and will soon bring those who are worthy of power to power.

Remember, we teach our children to deceive, if we want to be a society that does not doubt each other, we must first look at ourselves. 

We can start fixing society by teaching our children that it is not good to deceive someone. 

But they learn a lot not only from our words but also from our behavior. So first we have to stop deceiving ourselves.

Can we do that? 

I don't know, maybe one day. But I'm not sure if I'll see it myself now.

AHBAP, yes, I think AHBAP!

As for KIZILAY, I don't really know, I try to support them by giving blood when I am in Turkey. But for some reason I don't feel like doing more for now.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow