Then the number one thing you should be advocating for is a stronger and more robust education thinking that teaches very important critical thinking and academic skills to people that will stay with them for life. The lira being stronger or weaker has very little to do with it, you can have a random dude working on scientific breakthroughs in his garage with zero government and corporate funding because he's got the skills down.The other thing is, i don't wanna live in the shadow of great countries like the US, France, Germany, the UK etc. Watching them doing cool things and watching them in envy. But when the TL gets strong it impedes our ability to develop those stuff. Because it turns the incentive structure upside down. If you have strong currency why would the companies take high risk of failure of developing the cutting-edge technology. They would just buy it and use it because of the strong TL. We would never get out of this middle income trap. If what you're buying from outside was KUKA robots for your body shop or ToT or some infrastructure investment I'd be cool with it. But that's not how it will play out. And our fetish of owning the brand new, latest model of everything as a nation won't help either. I don't want us to make this mistake second time. We shouldn't buy phones, laptops, cars with the borrowed money. That will hurt us bad in the long run.
I feel like this exchange is getting personal with very little chance of bearing fruit. If you have thoughts about eliminating the trade deficit and inducing high-value product development, i'm willing to engage. But if you don't, i don't think we should pollute the thread more than already it is. I yield.
Or a counter-example, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the European and Middle-Eastern regions for a while, yet it has barely produced a single noteworthy invention, discovery, philosophy or a work of incredible literature or art that is praised across decades like Don Quixote, the Mona Lisa, David, the Book of Five Rings, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc. Hell, half the reason why Balkan nationalists hate Ottoman rule is because they believe that they missed the Renaissance and the Enlightenment because of it. There's, well, a reason for that.
And guess what? A weaker lira and economy will also work against that, because people will be too busy trying not to starve and flee overseas to countries which will at least provide a basic income to live more or less comfortably. Which is what is happening now. Almost all of the Turks making discoveries and innovations are doing so in other countries. Pretty much none of them are doing so while in Turkey. That's a problem.
I have said this before, I sympathize with wanting to chase greatness but people supporting initiatives to do so via shortcuts that will do more damage than bring benefit are counterproductive. Let go of this "Turkey is a superpower by 2050" dream because it's not really gonna happen in the way that you think it is and focus on just getting the basics down.