This is the picture of the opportunities born of the financial coup

We emphasized that it is very clear that the loser, in the short and long term, in the financial blow attempt that the US under the Trump administration launched against Turkey for the sake of rescuing Pastor Brunson is the US. Indeed, all indicators show that this US attitude toward Turkey, and the response in kind that Turkey displayed against this attitude, have brought things to a turning point in this matter.

The stance of Turkey seems to have had a triggering effect for a global discontent with Trump's policies, which have provoked great reactions since they began, to turn into a comprehensive and organized opposition. A European guest who had come to attend the AK Parti Congress was saying in our conversation that the world is in need of serious leadership to stand against this madness represented by Trump, and that Erdoğan, with his statements and determined stance, has naturally answered this expectation.

In fact, at this very point, having spoken enough about what this financial attack has cost the US, we can also dwell on what the event has gained for Turkey.

Undoubtedly, like every attack, this one too has a cost for Turkey. Indeed, it is a fact that, because of the fluctuating exchange rate, the financial and investment environment in Turkey has entered serious turbulence, that not everyone has emerged strong from this turbulence, and that many market actors have been very badly affected. Moreover, the turbulence is still continuing, but with the first big attack having been repelled, it is also possible to say that the system has gained a kind of immunity against new waves. Blows that fail to bring down make one stronger still. The blow's being financial does not change this rule. Those who planned the economic blow against Turkey will be left with the money they spent on this job.

Meanwhile, the knowledge that what was happening had nothing to do with the Turkish economy, and that it was the result of an operation trying to bring Turkey to its knees, contrary to expectations made it easier to bear the damage arising from the event. On the contrary, the losses were seen less as "losses that must be endured" than as "a price that must be paid with honor in order to stand up for one's country". Just as great good came out of the evil of 15 July, such a good has come out of this financial attack as well. People, knowing that they would lose, went and converted the foreign currency in their hands into Turkish lira, sacrificing their property, and once again deserved to attain the consciousness of being a nation.

The people who were tested with their lives on 15 July and passed it successfully were tested this time with their property and came out of this test successfully as well. If you remember, the greatest error of those who carried out the 15 July treason, their dream and expectation, was that this nation would be afraid of weapons and tanks and would immediately cower. "These were generations who had in any case paid for exemption from military service, and who would not know what to do and would surrender even in front of an infantry rifle."

On that day that nation knew how to shatter the dreams of those coup plotters. By shielding with its chest in front of tanks and rifles, it once again deserved the honor of being a nation.

Those who attempted the financial coup also relied on their prejudice that, even if this people had no hesitation about giving their lives, they loved money more than their lives and would never sacrifice their money, even for their country. What kind of prejudice is this. Clearly they know this nation as themselves. Let them go on knowing it that way, let them remain forever doomed to lose.

Turkey came out of this financial coup attempt too with its face clean. This time it was tested with its property and had the opportunity to show that it could sacrifice this property too without blinking for its freedom, independence and honor. This is one of the most important distances a country can cover on the road to becoming a nation.

There was more. On 15 July, we had seen, together with the people of Turkey, through the extraordinary examples of solidarity displayed, what kind of common feeling and geography of the heart people from all over the world belong to. Demonstrations in favor of Turkey and against the coup had been held in the capitals of many countries simultaneously with Turkey. On that day people perhaps were not tested with their lives together with the people of Turkey, but with their prayers and the images of solidarity they displayed they had tried to show that their hearts beat with Turkey. President Erdoğan had named the situation "the borders of our geography of the heart". It was the picture of the fact that although Turkey as a country has certain borders, no borders can be set on Turkey's geography of the heart.

The people of that geography this time found the opportunity to show that they are there if there is a price to be paid for being with Turkey, and they made use of this opportunity with magnificent examples.

Especially in almost all Arab countries, the peoples mobilized, as it were, to stand up for the Turkish lira. The media was flooded with images of citizens of Kuwait, Qatar and even Saudi Arabia and the UAE, of Libyans, Egyptians, Syrians, Yemenis, Pakistanis, converting the foreign currency in their hands into Turkish Lira in a demonstrative way. I am sure that those who carried out this financial attack watched these images with great attention and with equal anger. These are images of Turkey's great gains in this attack, which they did not expect at all, as much as of their own rout.

At the end of the 6th Ordinary Congress of the AK Parti, students from 50 countries of the world, most of them oppressed countries that had received Turkey's humanitarian aid in one form or another, made a surprise for President Erdoğan. A Somali youth, on behalf of all the students, expressed the sentences that defined the surprise:

"Erdoğan has deserved to be the leader of all oppressed nations with his upright stance on the side of what is right against the oppressors. That is why we think this congress is not only a congress of Turks. We are using our right to attend this congress to congratulate Erdoğan, whom we also see as our leader, and to show that we are with him".

Indeed, Turkey does not consist only of Turkey, nor is Erdoğan only the leader of Turkey. Whoever meddles with him must now also calculate what kind of world they are meddling with.