Let's Plan Our Future: Part-2

Who Are We Turks?

We continue where we left off yesterday.

Yes, we said the first stage after thirty years, where do we see ourselves?

Let's try to learn lessons from history to understand this better.

If we take a look at our history, sources write that Turkish culture started with sheep shepherding. B.C. I'm talking about 6000 years. It doesn't even have a Turkish name yet. Nobody knows what a Turk is until it was first written in Chinese sources in 600 AD. A nomadic culture. For the first time, we taught the world the horse and cavalry order, but it will take many years for the settled order.

The oldest written source that has been found belonging to us is the Orkhon inscriptions. Dating from 735 AD. In other words, 6735 years are actually lost, but whatever has been transferred from language to language. And some findings that may not yet try to write in the place where they live. Perhaps items made of stone and copper for hunting and livestock.

But it is clear that it is a warrior culture. Gokturk monuments:

"Kagan ornament is teg ermis, butter is koñ teg ermis"

In today's Turkish:

"The Khan's army was like a wolf, the enemy was like a sheep"

He writes, there is much more information that we are a warrior community.

By the way, the words "sheep" and "böri" appear in Orkhon inscriptions. Today we say "wolf" instead of "böri", actually there was the word "wolf" back then, but its real meaning is tree wolf, and böri is actually what we call wild wolf today.

I guess we should not mention his name once, otherwise we gave up saying "böri" just because it ends at our door. There was a lot of superstition back then. There is today though. That's why I read somewhere that they started to say "wolf" instead of "böri". Who knows, maybe it's true, people had different superstitions in ancient times.

First Turkish States:

But it means that we had army discipline back then, and we were stronger than what we call the enemy. The first lesson we will learn from history is that we must maintain our strength in the future as in our history.

Yes, we started with sheep herding and established our first state in 312 BC, the Great Hun State, and then the Hun Empire in 209 BC. The source of this information is Chinese sources. These sources date back to 3000 BC. I don't know if anyone knows Chinese today and has studied ancient Chinese sources. If the first sources of our history are Chinese sources, I think we should have a university that not only speaks Chinese, but also studies the entire Chinese culture. I have not heard that we have such a university, if anyone knows, please tell me.

Yes, the first country we confronted us was China, we fought a lot. As we can see from the Orkhon inscriptions, the Turkish culture of sheep herder became a warrior culture over time and our history is full of glorious states and empires. However, each of them destroyed the other, that is, sibling fights or fights between different tribes were very effective, so the second lesson is the preservation of unity.

There are many independent Turkish states now. But our subject is not history, so I think it's enough for now to look at history so much. The last word, we turned our face to the west and came to the gates of Europe. We do not have an expansionist culture, but we have always had a free state and have always been strong enough to live independently.

So the information we can get from our history in order to plan is independence, unity and strength. All three are our characters. The power part has turned into being economically strong today, as the methods have changed, that is, technological superiority has started to play a big role even in wars. So we are no longer as strong as before. In order to regain our former strength, we must first become stronger economically. But independence and unity must be taken into account. But again, independence is also a few kinds. Political independence, economic independence, cultural independence. Politically, I have nothing to say again. But I can say that we have failed in economic independence. Cultural independence, well, there are many transitions with both Europe, the Arab community and Iran. However, our motto is:

“I have lived free since eternity, I live free/ Which madman would chain me? I'm surprised!”

“My humble body will certainly be soil one day, but the Republic of Turkey will stand firm forever.”

Strength arises from unity:

If the aim is to be independent, united and strong, let's look at what we should do to achieve this in the near future.

First of all, they say that power comes from unity, which means that we will be united with communities that have the same dream as us. First of all, with communities that we have a common history with, namely Turkish communities. If we want to have a say in the world to come, we have to. In this case, we will be able to solve the two goals together, unity and power.

The third aim is to remain independent, so if we are talking about independence in every sense, we must first ensure our economic independence.

Let's remember, what haven't we done about this until now? Or in other words, what did we do wrong?

Energy Problem:

Our biggest handicap is our energy problem. It is also our biggest foreign exchange expenditure. Although, if we calculate the expenditure we make for the technological products that we import from abroad, we actually pay them at least as much as the energy.

Well, in my previous articles, I wrote that the energy source will change in the future, the subject of hydrogen. However, I also wrote that we will be dependent on fossil fuels for a long time in hydrogen production. If we are talking about energy independence, it means that we have to make investments in this regard. If we can develop a partnership with the Turkish world, we have a chance to relax a bit about fossil fuels. There are also studies within our own borders. Maybe we can find some more resources of our own in the future. But as I said, we are already surrounded by seas, so if we make the right investments, we can at least meet our own hydrogen needs, we will not be dependent on the outside.

It's understood, we are building plants that produce hydrogen from fossil fuels, and we are also establishing plants where we can produce hydrogen from the seas. In this way, at least the fuel we need is dissolved.

Let's see what else we can do for economic independence, we continue tomorrow.

Love and regards from Moscow for now