During his visit to Van province, Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, former Chairman of HUDA PAR who came together with representatives of NGOs and opinion leaders, evaluated the topics on the agenda.

Stating that Islam has gone out of our political, business and the legal lives a long time ago, Yapıcıoğlu added that we have Islam partly in our family life. "The current economic system in Turkiye is the capitalist economic system. This is contrary to our faith. This is a brutal system. This is a system of exploitation. A system exploits and sucks people up the hilt. The exploiters are not here. The founders of this system, the planners of this system are the great global money fathers. They earn money from their chairs. We work, but their moneymaking printers work. We work for a month, they give us a colored paper on the side of our work, they say, 'This is your work'. They take all the goods we produce."

"We consume more than we produce as a country"

Stressing that there are three main problems in Turkiye's economic life, Yapıcıoğlu said, "The foremost problem is that our whole economy faculties teach capitalist economic theory as economics. They teach that 'the solution to all economic problems is in this system'. This system itself generates problems, and as a solution, it poisoning us and offer us medicine to be more tied to it. This is the basic problem. Besides that, we have to overcome these two problems absolutely. We are consuming more than we produce as a country, and we spend more on our income."

Talking about Turkiye's economy, Yapıcıoğlu stressed that the biggest item in the current account deficit is the difference between imports and exports, the gap in foreign trade. "

"Our televisions, our newspapers, our economists often say that the record of republic history has been broken; our exports have increased so much. Yes, exports have increased as they have said; but they did not say; 'with exports, imports also broke a record, exports increased by three points, but imports increased by four points'.  As if only our exports are increasing, no one talks about importing. As if our current public is growing and as if we are not closing the gap by borrowing. They constantly repeat; 'When we came to power, we had $ 27 billion our debt to IMF, we paid the debt.' This is a small piece of truth; "Turkiye has paid all its debt to IMF. True, but Turkiye just does not owe the IMF. Turkiye's $127,000 debt has increased to $500,000. It is not easy for Turkiye to pull off while there are a continuously rising debt and interest."

"Structural measures need to be taken"

Referring to Turkiye's external debt Yapıcıoğlu said that the taken money should be spent on investments to increase production.

"Structural measures need to be taken," said Yapıcıoğlu and added, "Turkey must give up on waste. It will be valuable if the taken money spends on the investment, increase production and employment."

"First of all, the state must tighten its belt"

"Turkiye has to pay 98.5 billion dollars in foreign debt including interest. Is there anyone who can make the account of how much TL we have to pay after the dollar has risen?" Yapıcıoğlu asked and warned the government to tighten its belt seriously first before it asks citizens to tighten their belt. (ILKHA)