He throws whatever he can get his hands on.

While watching the television news, I heard one of the parents waiting hopefully in front of Silivri prison for their children to be released say the following:
"Why did these children come out and march? It means that you are not governing the country properly and they are uneasy. If everything was fine, why would they protest?.."
The situation could not be expressed better than this.
Those representing the regime are trying to create the impression that someone is filling the streets to voice their rebellion “as a hobby, to fill their free time and just to make noise.” Students and teachers are leaving their classes, workers are leaving production, health workers are abandoning their patients, the unemployed and retired are bored, engineers and architects are tired of their calculations and are looking for other things to do, and housewives are flocking to the squares out of curiosity.
In fact, the powerful himself knows that this is not the case. But he has long since passed the point where he can realize this and act differently. He knows very well that things are out of his control and that no matter what he does, he will no longer be able to regain his former power. He is so aware that he feels his desperation in his bones that he is rapidly progressing in the process of decay and destruction.
That's why the regime does not hesitate to resort to cruel yet comical, brutal yet tragicomic methods, at the cost of making itself look even more pathetic.
You know, (to use an analogy) this behavior and attitude resembles the behavior of a big bully child who insults a large group of people in the schoolyard, gets encouraged by their silence, insults them even more, and when he sees them all moving, he takes to his heels and runs away. While running away, he throws whatever comes to hand at his opponents…
He blocks his opponent's social media accounts.
Whenever it feels like it, it either slows down or stops the internet, preventing communication, which is the most natural and vital need of society.
He prevents the lighting equipment from coming to the square in order to keep the people gathered in the dark, and he prevents the party bus from coming there in order to sabotage the opposition leader's speech.
He prevents “sharp-tongued” guests from being invited to his channels so that no critical voices can be heard on the screens or radios.
With the penalties it imposes on RTÜK , it prevents the public from obtaining information from " independent news sources" and from accessing news that does not suit them on the internet.
Ensuring that students learn superstition instead of science, and depriving them of quality education, paves the way for teachers and prevents qualified, high-caliber educators from working.
Due to the irrational economic policies it implements, it impoverishes tens of millions of workers and retirees and prevents them from living humanly.
In order to stop the additional economic disaster caused by his political mistakes and the coup he knowingly carried out against his political opponents, he is burning more than 50 billion of this nation's reserve currency, preventing any possible repairs.
He is obstructing the administration of justice with the instructions he gives to prosecutors and judges, who are now clearly in a "command-and-control" relationship with the regime and the political will.
In short: By causing destruction upon destruction, it prevents the entire country from looking to the future with hope.
He is so exhausted and writhing in despair that he does not refrain from exaggerating this "state of throwing everything he can get his hands on his opponents."
You know, if he could, he would prevent his opponents from even having water flowing from their fountains, from buying bread from their bakeries, or from finding wood to put in their stoves. He is that reckless.
I believe that the representatives of the regime are not even aware of how isolated they are. Their ears refuse to hear anything other than the desperate serenades of the three or five pro-government and lying TV channels and the nightingales of the indomitable regime that sing there every night. Their "flattery" sounds like a "pleasant farewell song" to the ears of the regime members.
It is no longer possible to believe the rumors that are written and circulated from time to time by the opposition, such as “Even some apparatus within the regime are worried and anxious.” The powerful think that we have forgotten how those who voice such things were thrown onto the rails from the windows of the cars that were going downhill at a rapid pace. Don’t most of them shamelessly walk among us and (unfortunately) get honor and respect from those old and wretched “so-called” objectors?
Do they think we do not know that their concern is not about the good of the people and the country, but about "no longer being able to find a place in the esteemed seats of the regime" ?
As the victimized but unyielding masses of people, we are minding our own business.
We are focusing on our response to the regime's increasingly aggressive nature in its final stages.
No matter what they throw at us, no matter how much they increase their cruelty, we will shield this shameless attack with our chests and unite even more. We will grow social opposition like an avalanche in the factory, in the field, on the construction site, in the office, in the school, in the shop, in the workshop, in the hospital, by being more organized, more conscious and aware.
The resolute voice of the squares will sooner or later defeat the palaces of the rulers.
It is clear who we got the “soufflé” from.
We take it from one of the greatest warriors in history, our Founding Leader, who said, "The independence of the nation will be saved by the nation's determination and resolve."
BirGün