Serhat Halis Wrote Immigration and Reaction in 5 Articles

Immigration and reaction in 5 Articles
The main reason and responsible for the immigration and immigration phenomenon seen in the world today is the imperialist states and their policies. In this context, every discussion about immigration and immigrants should begin with the disclosure of this fact, and the imperialist states should be seen as responsible and guilty of all the troubles arising from this problem. Therefore, our (possible) anger here should be against the states and imperialists, not the immigrants…

Serhat HALİS

From Afghanistan to Turkey The accelerated migration wave has been on the agenda of the country for a while. This is discussed in a wide spectrum, from citizens on the street to journalists, politicians and academics. So to speak, those who get up early in the morning do not hesitate to express their opinions on this issue.
However, almost all of these statements see only one half of the truth and remain blind to the other half. As a result, the remaining half of the truth is coded as wrong and unacceptable for both parties. You suddenly become a “fascist”, “racist” or “liberal” in this atmosphere. The issue is either used as a material for sluggish political discussions or reduced to personal conscientiousness. As a matter of fact, those who read the issue here interpret it by keeping the side that is useful for them. However, the issue of immigration and immigrants needs an objective determination that is evaluated with all its aspects that make up the phenomenon.

1) Who is Responsible for Migration?

As soon as the "immigrant" in our age is evaluated independently of the capitalist production relations and the fact that the world is exploited by the capitalist states, the first door on the way to the wrong determination is opened. Imperialist states; collapsed on its oil, fertile lands, and various riches; any poor country on which he tried his own weapons and sold old weapons (so that they could kill each other) over time; it turns into a piece of land where hunger, reaction and brutality are rampant. This is a reality that has stood before our eyes for the last 300 years. The "black-faced" people, whom the "white man" had enslaved by occupying their lands and confiscating their wealth, almost did not see the light of day after that day. The imperialist West, which created a paradise for itself by exploiting the planet, left a dregs in the rest of the world with the human quality and the way of life it imposed on them. This pulp; It is actually a habitation in which suffering, poverty, wars, diseases and primitive alienation exist. When this dreadful habitation reaches unbearable proportions after a while for one reason or another, we encounter dense populations of people seeking salvation in migration. This migration, of course, is towards Europe and America, which have become rich and prosperous through the exploitation of their ancestors. The main reason and responsible for the immigration and immigration phenomenon seen in the world today are the imperialist states and their policies. In this context, every discussion about immigration and immigrants should begin with the disclosure of this fact, and the imperialist states should be seen as responsible and guilty of all the troubles arising from this problem. Therefore, our (possible) anger here should be against states and imperialists, not immigrants… In addition, it should be a basic discourse to advocate that a phenomenon such as immigration leaves the life of humanity. Because immigration is technically a result of exploitation. The moment we defend immigration, we legitimize exploitation itself. However, being anti-immigrant is not the same as being anti-immigrant. Because the responsible and creator of immigration is not the immigrants, but the centers that cause the phenomenon of immigration, namely the order and the states. The solution to a problem is at the root of the problem. Therefore, anger towards ordinary people, who are negatively affected by the problem, not the cause of the immigration problem, is not only fruitful, but also an irrational attitude.

2) Political-Cultural Differences Between Immigrants and Natives

The law of unequal development in nature also develops societies unequally. In this context, due to various imperialist interventions and other unequal developments; some societies may be more “backward” than some other societies. This refers to a process that continues from the first moment of human history to the present day. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, this process has a periphery that includes the natural flow of humanity. Each society experiences a different developmental course due to interdependent or independent variables. In this sense, it is by the laws of nature that there are various categories of “backward” and “advanced” societies, “backward” and “advanced” people. In this context, there are various cultural, religious, educational and social differences between the immigrant communities and the local communities in the migrated place. This is clearly observed, for example, among Turkish people in Europe, or Afghans and Syrians in Turkey. Especially Muslim immigrationThe existence of social and religious differences between the natives and the local people often creates inevitable problems. Because the socio-cultural structure of the Middle East is male, there are no women there. There is no need to be a Taliban or FSA for this, the world of an ordinary Middle Easterner grew out of it. In this context, insoluble conflicts often arise between Muslim immigrants and the communities in the place of immigration. Recall, the woman who settled in Switzerland recently tried to send her 6-year-old daughter to school with a headscarf and said that those who do not want this can leave the country. Similarly, families who did not want their little girl to go to the same pool with the boys made a press statement and did not send their children to the pools, stating that mixed pools were against their beliefs. In Germany and in many parts of Europe, petitions were made to prevent pork products from being sold in school cafeterias and to have only halal products in cafeterias. Although Turkey is incomplete, it is a country that has experienced a bourgeois revolution and has reached a certain socio-cultural level. Turkey; It comes from a tradition of education consisting of village institutes, compulsory secular bourgeois education, schools with a mixed system of men and women, where mixed arts and sports events are organized. We like it or not, but spitting on the ground, throwing garbage on the ground, the communication of men with women, cleaning habits, women's place in society, politics, business life, love of animals and the relationship that people establish with nature, humanism, eating and drinking habits, swimming etiquette, life style of others. The people of Turkey are far behind Europe in terms of respect for their form, but far ahead of the Middle East and Islamic countries. In all these contexts, the intense migration of people who do not come from such an educational tradition and cultural formation causes problems in time between the immigrants and the locals in Turkey as well.

3) The Political Economy of Immigration

Immigration obliges both local workers and immigrants to live below humane standards and imposes a poor quality life. In this respect, it lays the groundwork for the enmity of workers from both sections to feed each other. The local laborer sees that the immigrants take away their job with cheap labor; however, the bill for this is not on the boss who benefits from cheap labor, but on the migrant worker. Immigration means cheap labor, uninsured, no legal rights, working in unhealthy conditions. This is not only in Turkey, but almost everywhere in the world. In this context, immigration is another name for the overexploitation of people. Immigration means that the profits of the bosses are added to the profits through the labor of the people who work for fullness, as in the slave society. In other words, immigration is both the unemployment of the local laborer and the employment of the immigrant laborer for full stomach. It is the economic design of the slave-owning society that people have to work only for full stomach, without any legal rights and guarantees. In this respect, the phenomenon of immigration is a variation of the slave economy today. Remember last week, two names from AKP; Yasin Aktan and Mehmet Özhaseki admitted that refugees keep Turkey's economy and industry afloat. They stated that they work in the most severe and difficult conditions in the industry. In Turkey, which is experiencing a great economic collapse, we have a government that has linked salvation to cheap labor and the inhumane slave labor system. In other words, the migration from poor Islamic countries to Turkey only prolongs the political life of the current government and serves the interests of the bosses.

4) Is Turkey the Passing Inn or the Last Stop?

Europe's asylum or immigration policy is clear. It does not want more immigrants to Europe. For this, he developed a new policy. It uses Turkey as a buffer zone, as per the consensus it has established with the current government in Turkey. For this, he has found a very simple and humiliating method: he bribes the current government in Turkey and wants it to absorb all kinds of immigration from the east here. This translates into the economic and political support of the current government, which is experiencing economic and political collapse, in the international arena. Therefore, Europe's immigration policy seems to be built on the AKP's perpetuation of its power. That's why Europe still supports and watches over the AKP. It is very clear that Europe considers Turkey worthy of what it does not deem itself worthy. There is nothing capitalists cannot do to not compromise their own quality of life. They even support political Islam for this, which they did for decades. They don't care about Turkey's quality of life. Europe is turning Turkey into a hell with the garbage it sends, the support it gives to the current government, and the "backward" human population coming from the Middle East. It is clear that Europe will not open its doors to the millions of immigrants in Turkey who are said to come from Afghanistan. With a few million euros, these doors will always remain locked. TypeAlmost all of the people who come to Kiye to cross into Europe will stay in Turkey. This is also a trump card that the current government holds as a threat against Europe. Therefore, none of the immigrants who come to Turkey will go to Europe, they will all stay in Turkey. In this respect, Turkey is not a crossing inn, but a final destination.

5) Immigrants and the Danger of Reaction

Videos showing that hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan are on their way to Turkey recently were reflected on social media. These people, all of whom are young men, enter Turkey without any problems, waving their arms. Currently, Turkey is doing what no other state in the world has done. Why the AKP is opening the border gates to conservative male groups is a question mark. The religious and intellectual formation of the average Afghan man is no different from the Taliban. In March 2015, in the city center of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, in broad daylight, Farkhunda Melikzade was lynched by hundreds of men on religious grounds. Later, his body was cremated and finally a car was passed over his body. In the images reflected on the cameras, it was seen that the men who were not involved in the lynching were recording these moments with a mobile phone in their hands, laughing. Interestingly, the hundreds of men who did this were not Taliban militants, but ordinary Afghan citizens living in the capital. Therefore, the socio-political thermodynamic balance in Turkey sits on an Islamist-reactionary ground with a large immigration population. Turkey is a geography where enough reactionary people live and where there has been a fierce fight between the secular side and the reactionaries for many years. In this sense, there are two types of people in Turkey that we can culturally distinguish as "Middle Eastern" and "European". In essence, they appear as "secular" and "anti-secular". On the other hand, the wave of immigration upsets the balance in favor of the Middle East. For example, hundreds of migrant men who went into the sea just last week cooled off with shouts of "Allahu Akbar". Almost all of these people are FSA and Taliban lovers. Images of about 30 Afghan men in military uniform on Zeytinburnu beach were reflected on social media. Earlier at the same spot, Afghans had unfurled the Taliban flag. In the past years, around 300 Syrian men had unfurled FSA flags in Fatih after the Friday prayers and marched with the cries of "Allahu Akbar". Similarly, the funeral of ISIS commander Abdulbasit al Sarut, who said, "We will exterminate the Alevis," turned into a show of strength, and was sent to Idlib from Turkey with the participation of thousands of militants and sympathizers. It is very clear that immigrants who carry such a population in their arms may turn into citizens who will vote in favor of the government in a possible election, or they may turn into a flank pouring into the streets in favor of the government in a possible break. These migrations will inevitably upset the well-established balance between the "secular" and the "anti-secular" in Turkey in favor of the "anti-secular".