If you envy it, who is stopping you from making the same investments with the same means?

The headline "From Sociology to Zinc Trading" that Birgün writer Bahadır Özgür put out shows, let alone sociology, a lack of the most basic faculty of logic or notion of reality, yet it also contains a cunning that knows very well what it is doing...

By doing so, he squanders the concept of sociology like a rag inside an absurd comedy he has written to his own liking. Before you have finished wondering what the connection is, he has already hooked the carp he meant to hook and made them laugh. Looking at the comments written under the news item with this nonsensical headline, you see how many carp there were, eager to jump at such drivel!

What does sociology represent here? In terms of regional development, employment, industrialization and the elimination of dependence on foreign countries, the zinc factory, with its magnificent story, has perhaps been possible precisely because it contains a serious sociological perspective. Now, as the result of a comprehensive sociological analysis directed at the region and the country's problems, this and many projects like it are being brought to life. In this way, for a remedy to be found for unemployment, underdevelopment and the country's dependence in the region, a sociological notion is already and necessarily needed behind such projects.

Instead of seeing the sociologist there in the very context in which such an investment fits, you have wanted to see him within the absurd story, which you invented with your most malicious side, of "a sociologist turning into a merchant." Truly, thinking about it now, having misled malevolent people like you feels to me the loveliest of joys.

Birgün's writer, ignorant of sociology, who sees nothing and makes things up, unable to rein in his momentum, has had the same magpie on the rooftop first go from "the Charter of Medina to zinc trading" and then "from writing petitions to zinc production again." Thus he has tried to blow into people's ears the whisper of a transformation "from mujahid to contractor" or "from Islamist to merchant." As it is a whisper, God did not warn His servant in vain. It has an effect, it works like magic, especially if it appeals to some of its customer's fantastic appetites.

Now, if we were to explain that one of the first things the Prophet did in the Islamic state of Medina was to set up a market, spread trade, lay a foundation for the economy of that city and determine the working rules of that market, who would understand what?

The truth is, not to suit a Muslim or an Islamist to trade without a story of "transformation" or "degeneration" is not a problem of Muslims but yours. The most original invention of the leftist intelligentsia about AK Party members or the devout over the last twenty years has been this "from mujahid to contractor" cliché. Do the clichés in your head always depict the Muslim only as someone prostrating, prayer beads in hand, only performing his acts of worship? If every Muslim typology you meet outside these areas seems strange to you, it only shows that your mind is afflicted with the crudest orientalist ideological clichés.

I say, consult a sociologist who really knows his work; he will have a great deal to tell you.

For instance, do these clichés provide some consolation for your own stories of "from socialist revolutionary to advertiser" or "from militant leftism to capitalism"? Or is the real issue that comrades who have traveled this road from socialism and are today settled at the very center of capitalism do not deem Islamists worthy of this?

Let us set aside today's leftist culture and publishing world: what brazen theoretical talk can cover the fact that behind the leftist political movement today stands the most central capital of Turkey? Is it not the most savage finance capitalists whose preference and boundless support today go to leftist politics? If the notion of contracting is suddenly seen as something comic or tragic as the occupation of an Islamist, how should the leftist's course extending to comprador bourgeoisie, and his exploiting of this country's people to the marrow with usury and finance capitalism, be seen? Why do we not see a news analysis about this in Birgün?

The forbidden love story and fantasy implied between "Islamist" and "merchant" is not only about shallowness and stupidity in the mental world, but of course also about the condescension of this high bourgeois center toward the periphery. That this is done in the name of the left only shows how besieged, emasculated and recruited the leftist intellectual is.

In Birgün's news item, the records of the Qatari and Egyptian partners of the investment were researched, and while unrelated companies, persons and activities were put together in a made-up story, there are insinuations upon insinuations... Only insinuations, ventriloquism... Is there any corruption that can be attributed? No, but there is "something" being insinuated. What it is lies hidden in the secret understanding between the writer and his customer.

In the Twitter message in which he announced his article, Birgün's ignorant writer topped all his hate speech with brazen insinuations: "Yasin Aktay, it seems, has put into practice the 'Charter of Medina,' which is regarded as the document of a pluralist society, as a multi-partner capital contract: Iman Trade Tourism Construction Ltd!"

Although what has been done has no connection whatever with the "Charter of Medina," nor with the Zinc factory in Siirt of the "Iman Trade Company," to garnish the bald connection he has built in his sick mind with the Charter of Medina on top is, at the very least, an indicator of incurable hatred and hostility toward Islam.

On top of that, showing how ignorant he is both of his own news item and of the incentive system in Turkey, writing "A capital group is created like this by the government. Resources, land and so on from the state...", he has taken the story he imagined in his head as evidence for himself.

We have said it everywhere, however: there is not a single kuruş of credit or resources from the state. On the contrary, there are praiseworthy investors who invest by taking risks and making great sacrifices. Yasin Aktay's "honorary chairmanship" is also due to his having no commercial partnership or remuneration.

If you wish, shall we announce from here this offer against this story that has hooked so many carp: let the capital behind you come, take the risk of investing in the region, and I promise that under the same conditions this state will provide them too with every kind of facility.

My making this promise is, of course, a figure of speech. Whoever truly wants to invest needs neither me nor anyone in the government. Whatever the opportunities are, they are open to everyone anyway.

Siirt, Şırnak, Hakkâri, Batman and Bitlis are ready to welcome with a red carpet those who want to invest within this framework. Are you willing to come and make this investment? Who is stopping you?