Is there any estimations how many people are Gulenist members? I don't think their number is that high that It can cause such a crysis but on the other hand even if let's say 10 000 of them own a small business (or a medium/bigger one) it can cause problems for let's say 100 000 people. If these people have families it will cause a problem for them too so the number rises. These are just some basic and simple estimations but you get the idea. Anyway the problem is much bigger than that.
The crisis in our tourism is causing much bigger problems in my opinion. So many people decided to not visit Turkey this year- due to terror, the downed jet, the coup and even due to the bad light Turkey is being show in Western medias which constantly keep bashing us. This year we will probably lose around 10 billion just from that. Tourism is a sector that feeds millions of people directly because tourists pay money to sleep, eat and buy stuff, to visit places, bars, tours.
These stuff I mentioned (our bad reputation) also keeps away some people who buy our goods from abroad- clothes, foods etc. In Russia for example they weren't buying our stuff for around 9 months and trade is still not going as good as It was before. That's more billions we lost. A lot of people choose not to use Turkish airlines and our airports because "who knows what happens"- I don't know the exact number of the money we lost but let's say it is around 5 billion at least... For me that's a much smaller number than the actual one but people who make the statistics should be more accurate.
On the other hand a lot of Turkish companies who were doing business around the Middle East, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus are hit by the crysis there due to wars that are going in Syria, Iraq and other problematic countries and the low oil prices that is a big source of most of these countries. Most of these countries are also in some sort of an economical crisis and of course when they don't have enough money to build, buy from us and use our services it also hits our ecomony. Probably just from the businesses that operate abroad in the construction sector, textiles, trade etc. we lost at least around 10 billion dollars- again those who collect the statistics should say the exact number.
So you get the idea. Most businesses that are hit in our economy are the ones who are heavily dependent on foreign customers and who operate in areas where profits are not so big but where millions of families are employed. I am actually optimistic that next year will be better... maybe not better than 2014-2015 but better than this one. If something big doesn't happen again (like a new coup, Turkey going into a full scale war with someone or Erdo deciding to cut our relations with Europe) things should get better. Considering how inteligent AKP and it's leaders are though it's highly possible some of these things to become reality... why not even 2 of them.
This means no air pollution at all.
