Press Release
The Republican System that Only Creates Social Collapse and Economic Crisis is a Bankrupt System!
(Translated)

This year, the October 29 celebrations were once again held amidst unresolved economic crises persisting for years, heartbreaking humanitarian issues, increasing chaos, unsolved terrorism problems, and ongoing social collapse. The Turkish state, where secularism based on the principle of separating deen from state and keeping it out of life, has not managed to provide this Ummah with welfare, peace, or high living standards in any field, from health to education, security to production, justice to morality. Although the situation worsens to the point that people increasingly long for the past, state officials and system influencers celebrate the establishment of the secular state with grand festivities and musical events, talking about the ideals of the new Turkish century to keep the old system alive!

This state mechanism, equipped with systems of disbelief imported from the colonial West, cannot escape Western influence with its system, institutions, binding agreements, and international blackmail. While slogans of a "clean society" and a "religious generation" are chanted, our families are disintegrated, our youth are dragged into deviations, addiction, and immorality, women are killed, and children feel unsafe. While rosy pictures are painted based on statistics, figures, and projections, our people become poorer every day due to economic and financial crises, deprived of humane living conditions, as the heavy burden of interest and debt is imposed on low-income segments through harsh tax practices. Furthermore, corruption, theft, and the desire for easy money are widespread throughout society. Hospitals, schools, public institutions, local administrations, and community facilities are deteriorating due to inadequate and poor services. The industrial sectors rely on imports, agriculture is far from self-sufficiency, job opportunities have hit rock bottom, our talent migrates to Western countries, and society is aging due to fertility rates falling below critical levels. Meanwhile, distorted ideas and beliefs like deism, atheism, Satanism, and LGBTQ+ identities spread increasingly under the name of freedom, with society quickly drifting away from its beliefs, deen, history, and values. Just as we had to watch hundreds of thousands of Muslims being slaughtered in many regions in the past, we now helplessly witness the ongoing genocides and massacres in Gaza and Lebanon… These are just a few examples of the society we live in and the dire situation we endure, all reflections of the republican system celebrated today with ceremonies and “enthusiasm”!

Looking at our 101-year history, who can claim that we have reached an advanced and superior level, that we have become a prosperous and peaceful society, or that we have achieved a resilient, strong nation and a haven for the oppressed? Those who say the problem is not with the state or system but with governments and leaders—can they explain the state of the country under those who came to power over the years?

The republic is the name of the system imposed on us by Western colonialism to prevent the return of Islam and keep Muslims from seeing the light, established as a nation-state on the ruins of the Ottoman Caliphate. This Ummah, forced to inhabit this crumbling structure built on shaky ground with cracked and severely damaged pillars, cannot be expected to find peace, security, and prosperity. But do not be disheartened; Allah's promise and the Messenger’s (swt) glad tidings are true, and oppression cannot last forever. Every night is followed by a morning, and every sunset by a new dawn. That dawn is Islam, the Islamic State; the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood.

[إِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ أَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ]

“their appointment is [for] the morning. Is not the morning near?” [Surat Hud:81]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Turkiye