For a outsider , situation seems tensed and more worrying than the inflation issue , i can't even imagine what a average Turk feels , if the migrants are at a conservative estimate to be around 8.5 million , that's 10% of your population , that's not a small group by any measure
Numbers are one problem, the other problem is the type of people.
The average Turk until now had no idea how culturally, mentally and socially different Turkey and Turks are from the average Afghan and Pakistani. At best, the nearest interaction they had 10, 5, 3 years ago was in a taxi or restaurant and confused Turkish hospitality as an out of jail card. I used to warn Turks here on the green forum years ago, that Pakistanis and Turks can never be brothers and was banned multiple times for this. I warned, when Afghans and Pakistanis come to Turkey, other peoples will look civilised.
I am glad Turkish people are coming to realise this now. Unfortunately, with this growing trend the same average Turk will not be able to differentiate other South East Asians from Pakistanis and Afghans. Had we had the same number of “other” Asians as we did Pakistanis and Afghans we would not have anything near this problem. These two groups are notorious for the kind of crimes we are seeing today.
Here is the underlying problem….
I see the PeeDF going crazy right now about Turks being “nationalists” you should see the comments and propaganda they are peddling about Turkish DNA and “national” identity. Why now? Because Turk masses have woken up to what a toxic nation Pakistan is and rightly want nothing to do with it.
They whitewash crimes committed by their own people by victim blaming and shaming, they ignore that there is an underlying problem with their nation but prefer to blame Turks for being nationalists, Europeans for being racist, Indians for spreading “propaganda” about Pakistan because they want an invitation to commit their sexual crimes, culture and zealotry in places where it is unacceptable.
I saw past Pakistani “brotherhood” in the early days, we could never be brothers with these zealots who were giving sermons that the 1999 earthquake in Turkey was “gods punishment on secular Turks”.
When you see past the “ummah” lip service they use to gain sympathy, they start projecting insecurities by calling you “secular”, “not Muslim enough” this is the problem, they have a resentment and jealousy, a resentment for anything “modern”, “different” and more successful than them because these groups feel entitled, notice how the same “ummah” Pakistanis talk about Afghans, butchered Bengalis, hate Indians? also talk about racism from Turks now.
Reality is these people (Afghans, Pakistanis) have a confused culture, confused religion, confused history, confused identity, a confused concept of nationalism, even the secular Pakistanis are cringe as the zealots, they claim IVC while denying they are a part of the larger Indian civilization. I wont derail the thread but this is an artificial state, that we will be hearing more in the future with conflicts and civil wars. It is best intellectuals in Turkey, and the government prepares itself for the influx of these trolls 20, 30, 50, years from now.