Turkey has a view like this too, I am telling you, my daughter

The Covid-19 data, which has taken a different course in recent days, is indeed worrying. But evaluating this data by looking only at its course within Turkey is very misleading, and the opposition treats this misleading picture as a very fertile opportunity for its own politics of exploitation. According to the opposition, it is as if the Covid-19 data are going badly only in Turkey, and so Turkey appears to be among the countries managing the fight against the epidemic worst. Yet the data emerging for Turkey is no better for other countries. The nature of this epidemic is that it comes in waves. One has to cooperate with society in following the policies pursued, and society does not consist of robots. No society is exempt from the rules of sociology, let alone above them.

Even so, one must listen carefully and fairly to the data presented in recent days by Health Minister Mr. Fahrettin Koca, as the only Health Minister invited to brief the meeting of the World Health Organization. Despite all the rising cases, Turkey has not even been in difficulty in terms of its health system in the face of this epidemic. Yet the health systems of the world's developed countries, including ABD and the leading AB countries, have all but raised the flag of bankruptcy in the face of this epidemic.

In addition, Turkey is among the foremost of all these countries in not crushing its citizens under their financial circumstances in the fight against Covid-19. In countries like ABD, citizens were left alone with their own financial means in Covid-19 treatment. Turkey, however, did not leave its citizens alone in this treatment; by taking on almost the entire treatment process, it applied complete equality between rich and poor. This datum alone is enough to show that Turkey deserves no criticism in this matter, that it is a situation before which everyone should take off their hat.

Even a policy that conveys such clear success and virtue from beginning to end did not open the heart's eye of the opposition; instead, counting even the natural passage of time for vaccines as a delay, they tried to pin a story of bankruptcy on Turkey in the face of such great successes. Yet there is another datum that Koca gave in his DSÖ briefing, which one should rub in their faces every day: Turkey ranks first among countries that have not (yet) produced their own vaccine in administering the most vaccines. Moreover, it administers this vaccine to its citizens free of charge. God forbid, if the former SSK Director General were running the country, what would our situation be now; no one even wants to think about it.

In fact, we see this picture much better by looking at ourselves a little from the outside. Last week a group of Muslim medical doctors living in ABD and very successful in their fields visited us. They were all people who could be called brains in their own fields. The reason for their visit is to seek an alternative place of life and investment to ABD, which has become increasingly harder for them to live in. There are already many highly qualified doctors of Muslim origin in ABD who have achieved serious successes in their fields.

Especially because of its health policies, ABD has currently lost its appeal for them, and they are looking for a field of investment into which they can channel the significant volume of health tourism directed toward them. There is enough serious brainpower around to meet this health tourism. But because of ABD's conditions, policies and attitudes toward Muslims, it is increasingly far from being able to accommodate this tourism. They cannot direct this tourism to their own countries either, because their countries have neither the health infrastructure nor the political conditions. Only Turkey remains.

So I receive the first answer to my question of why Turkey, which came to my mind right away, but they point to other reasons as well.

First, that the health infrastructure which Turkey has found the opportunity to display especially because of Covid-19 is now seen all over the world through the most objective data. Ah, I thought, if only our opponents had seen this too.

The second is more about their own emotional and cultural ties. Turkey, which unites Eastern and Western cultures and synthesizes both under its own particular conditions, offers an opportunity they long for. The wish to raise their children without distancing them from the West's advanced science and technology, but in line with their customs and traditions, in an environment where they will hear the sound of the adhan.

There is now a very significant number of highly qualified medical doctors who wish to move to Turkey, but one thing limits them: if these highly qualified and high-income doctors moved to Turkey, they would not be able to reach the same income level in Turkey.

The solutions they propose on this matter are, entirely in a way addressing health tourism, to establish their own health sites or hospitals in Turkey. If they establish a productive dialogue with officials of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Tourism, it could open very productive doors.

Of course, the very fact that this proposal can come at these dimensions reveals another face of Turkey, valid both for its health policies and for other matters. Let us look from here too.