Deputy and Proxy Governor

Proxy!

What is a proxy?

People have proxies, for example.

MPs.

In the past they used to be called mebus, but for some reason now we call them MPs.

Mebus means delegate, envoy.

A deputy is a representative, a person who exercises authority on behalf of someone else.

In fact, there is also saylav, a word that was brought to the agenda inspired by Chagatai within the scope of the language revolution carried out at the beginning of the Republican period, but like the word sayman, which was brought to the agenda for the same purposes, saylav was not adopted and today it is a word defined as off the agenda even in our national dictionary.

TDK dictionary defines saylav as an old non-agenda word.

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The difference in meaning between deputy and mebus is perhaps on the basis of nuance.

Maybe when you say deputy, you appoint the deputy, the deputy can do everything on your behalf, while mebus means messenger, he only conveys whatever is to be conveyed from you.

They say you can't kill the messenger.

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You can also appoint an attorney directly for yourself.

In court, for example, lawyers are our proxies who are recognised as representing us before the law.

A proxy is someone whom someone leaves in their place or authorises to do something for them.

Mebus is a messenger.

In general usage, we now call the National Assembly instead of the Assembly of Mebusan.

Instead of Mebus, today we elect deputies to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

In other words, there are no treasurers in the National Assembly, there are deputies.

The Assembly may have a treasurer, but the treasurer was not accepted, and instead of mebus, we started to call them deputies.

Historically, Sami Paşazade Sezai used the word "deputy of the nation" for the first time in his work in 1908, but in that work he mentions the message of friendship sent by the British Parliament to the National Assembly.

By the way, today we call the Speaker of the Parliament, but once upon a time the Speaker of the Parliament was called the Chief Deputy.

I don't know exactly when they started to be called MPs instead of Mebus. I don't know when they started to be called Speaker of the Parliament instead of Chief Deputy either. I think we should look at the minutes of the parliament.

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Yes, today we have 600 deputies in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

"I swear on my honour and integrity before the great Turkish nation that I will protect the existence and independence of the state, the indivisible integrity of the homeland and the nation, the unconditional and unconditional sovereignty of the nation; that I will adhere to the rule of law, the democratic and secular republic and the principles and reforms of Atatürk; that I will not depart from the ideal of the peace and prosperity of the society, national solidarity and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by all within a sense of justice and loyalty to the Constitution."

Six hundred deputies swore on their honour and dignity with this oath text!

However, due to our system of governance and the law on parties, unfortunately, our deputies prefer to be the deputies of the party leaders who actually elect them instead of being the deputies of the nation.

However, in the text of the oath, they swear to protect the unconditional and unconditional sovereignty of the nation.

Anyway, since this is a completely different subject, I will stop here.

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Parents!

Schoolchildren have to have parents because they are still children, i.e. minors.

Mostly when we were little, our mum or dad was our guardian. I remember that my guardian was my older brother. My older brothers are much older than me.

A parent is someone who protects a child, looks after his/her affairs and is responsible for his/her behaviour.

In a sense, he/she acts as a counsellor. A life coach!

Maybe it is the same thing, after all, guardian is Arabic and guide is Persian.

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Vekil and veli, these words have entered our language from Arabic. They originally come from the Arabic root "vkl".

Unfortunately, there is no Turkish word that can be used in their place.

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Power of Attorney!

Today, we call the authorisation document that we give to those we appoint as our proxy to represent us with notarial approval as power of attorney.

Look, this is also a word from the same root.

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Why do you need a proxy when you have the original?

By the way, the word "principal" is also Arabic!

Principal-agent, these words are opposites of each other. Just like difficult-easy.

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It sometimes demoralises me that we have so many words of Arabic origin.

Unfortunately, this is our language.

Actually, it is not our language, but the care our people show to their language.

Instead of sitting down and thinking of a new word for a new concept, we have preferred to add ready-made words from other languages to our language throughout history

Is it possible to fix this situation?

I think it is very difficult now, I can say that I had to accept it in a sense.

When I was little, we used to make fun of words among us, we used to say funny things like "satgaçlı götürgeç". But even if it sounds funny, if the newly developed word is of Turkish origin, why not, I think if it is Turkish, it should be used, at least it should be put into use and tried.

So what? Should we start saying "Saylav" instead of "MP" again, is that what you mean?

Or should we find another word instead?

Since Saylav doesn't work, another word can be derived.

I don't know, we say "voter" inspired by elections, should we say "elected" instead of "deputy"?

But elections are not the essence of the matter! What really matters is that the deputies represent us in the parliament, in other words, they can be "representatives".

But since representation is also an Arabic word, such a change makes no sense. Such a change would be like replacing "mebus" with "deputy".

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Representation is actually a word related to analogy in Arabic.

In this sense, should we say similar instead of representative?

But it didn't work out that way either, "representative" means someone who represents us, not someone similar to us.

Anyway, this "similar" meaning of "representation" is used in representations, shows.

I think representation has the meaning of "similar" because the shows performed in representations are usually done by imitating someone, by trying to look like someone.

The meaning of "representative" is different, it is called "representative".

What could be the real Turkish meaning of representative?

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Governor

The chief representative of the state in the city.

In fact, the governor is also a proxy, the proxy of the state, the proxy of the administration.

Governor means the most authorised administrative official representing the state in a province.

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In Ottoman times, there were provinces and governors ruled the provinces.

So "vilayet-vali", these words come from the same root, the Arabic root "wly" means related to administration.

The provinces of those times were not as many as today's provinces.

In 1900, there were 29 provinces.

Of course, there were 5 autonomous states within the imperial administration system.

Empire is something else.

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If you want to take a look at the provinces of the Ottoman homeland, I found it interesting.

As the administrative centres of the time, the vilayets were very different from today's provinces.

For example, the entire Eastern Black Sea region was a single province, Trabzon vilayeti!

The Western Black Sea region was called the province of Kastamonu. I have been to Kastamonu before, it is not such a big city, but the whole Western Black Sea region was called the province of Kastamonu. It is really interesting.

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The entire Aegean coastline was the province of Aydın, while a large region centred on Bursa in the Marmara region was known as the province of Hüdavendigar.

The province of Istanbul is followed by the provinces of Edirne and Eastern Rumelia in Thrace. Then Thessaloniki and Bitola and the provinces in the Balkans continue.

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Now I won't list all the provinces here, but the Antalya region, for example, was included in the province of Konya in those days.

Don't say that there was a sea in Konya, there was at that time. It seems that the ancients could not make an excuse that there was a sea in Konya so that we could learn to swim.

Most of the region we call the Mediterranean region today was known as Konya province together with Konya province.

Only Adana region was separated from the Mediterranean region as Adana province.

And between Konya and Kastamonu provinces is Ankara province!

So let this information be an answer to those who say why Ankara became the capital today.

Ankara was also the provincial centre back then!

Okay, maybe it is not Istanbul, but the name of the province is Ankara, brother.

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Beyond the province of Adana below Konya, there is the province of Aleppo, while Sivas and Erzurum provinces continue towards the east.

In other words, we can better understand why the congresses before the War of Independence were called Erzurum and Sivas congresses with this provincial organisation.

Further east are the provinces of Van, Mosul, Baghdad and then the province of Basra.

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While provinces were governed by governors, Liva and sanjaks under provinces were governed by mutasarrıfs.

Mutasarrıf means "saver", which also means "administrator", and when we say "administrator", we mean "administrator" in the same sense that we say "we manage on a shoestring".

From this you can understand how much importance state administrators should attach to saving.

Back then, even their names were related to saving!

Today districts are governed by district governors.

That's why almost all of them are in search of positions of authority.

District governor is derived by combining the words "kaim makam", which means the one who stands in office, in a sense the protector of the office.

When the concern is the protection of the office, the logic that there is no saving on reputation emerges.

It is clear why the Ottoman Empire survived for six hundred years. When saving was abandoned, the whole empire collapsed.

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Today we have provinces instead of the vilayets of the past.

In Old Turkish, il means state, yes, il is a completely Turkish word. However, today the meaning has been slightly changed, and the provinces of the past, which were administered by the state instead of the state, have become the provinces of today.

However, when we say "provinces of the past", we mean that the provinces were divided into smaller administrative units and the administration was envisaged with today's provincial administrations through the big cities in the provincial regions.

Administratively, governors were appointed at the head of the provinces like the provinces of the past and the representation of the state was again provided by the governors.

Governors are the proxies of the state in the provinces.

Although governor and deputy come from different roots, I think they are related words.

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Governors are not elected but appointed!

Local administrations are actually governed by elected mayors!

Local governments should have more authority over the provincial administration!

Look, this is a separate polemic.

Of course, being elected is an important thing.

After all, if so many people have voted for you, you see yourself as the sole representative of all these people.

In a sense, people have delegated their authority to you and appointed you as their proxy.

However, Socrates' criticisms of his student Plato on democracy are not criticisms to be dismissed lightly.

Anyway, being elected is of great importance in today's rules.

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When you are elected, you are now authorised to make decisions on behalf of the nation!

Is this the truth?

To what extent can a proxy act in place of the original?

Can an elected person go beyond the powers granted by proxy and act with his/her own views, putting forward whatever he/she wants?

It depends on their authorisation. If we, as a nation, have given all kinds of powers to that person, he/she may also abuse his/her powers when necessary.

Moreover, if no one cares about what they do, there is no going back.

Let me briefly remind you what I am talking about. While it is clear what can be done with presidential decrees, decisions beyond the laws were taken with the decrees issued.

After all these years, the Constitutional Court was gracious enough to declare that many amendments made by presidential decrees were unlawful.

The horse has crossed Üsküdar, brother, ride the donkey to Niğde!

That was not the case, was it? I know that, but this is exactly the situation right now, that's why I wrote it like this.

Now there is a deadline, one year I think, and the decrees have to be passed by parliament and turned into laws.

Will they do it?

MPs, the deputies of the nation! The group of deputies who do nothing but raise and lower their hands!

These deputies will do it, no problem!

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Anyway, the article got very long when I was talking about deputy, guardian, governor, MP, deputy of the nation.

Today I thought I would analyse some words again, but it was a very long article, and the topics were a bit scattered. Forgive me if I have offended you.

My love and respect to everyone from Moscow.