The incomplete laughter on the beach

I am wondering if the whole world is on drugs. It seems to be so that the world is using a drug made in Israel. No one is opening his or her mouth and everybody is dead silent. Western governments are doing only one unfavorable thing against their own people and it is always the question of Palestine. Anti-Israel protests in France, due to the Jewish stores'' security precautions, are not allowed. Four kids playing on the beach have been killed and the comments are spreading around like ''even the New York Times couldn''t ignore this news''. As for us, there is one thing despite all our conflicts, strict discourse and unreconciliated ideas. There is still one thing remaining despite the ''I am tired of this country'' frustration. There is this one thing lasting even if you rebel many times after what you see, live, become angry over due to inequality and unbelievable unfairness. There is one thing continuous even if you are so angry with the bus driver or just a bureaucrat or your elder brother, neighbor or even if you are cussing, filled with anger at your country. Won''t you still say, ''Thankfully, there is a country like Turkey''? Won''t you say ''thankfully, I am living in this country''? While the world turned blind and nations to the best of their capacity – as this is what they can do – are taking side with Palestine, the land of Palestinians, isn''t it a relaxing idea to live in Turkey under this scorching Ramadan day?

Because the love for Palestine is a naturally growing plant in this country against all propagandas, antitheses, lies and slanders.

There is neither leftist nor rightist when it comes to the question of Palestine. We all are on the same side. It''s our unique love, dear folks! It is perhaps because they fought with us in the same line as courageous heroes in WW1. Perhaps it is because of the oppression they went under in that war or perhaps the incessant torment and oppression. Almost everyone living in Turkey is a Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Palestine.

The reasons are clear why I said ''almost everyone'' instead of ''everyone''. There is a tiny group of people, who are not categorically the same with ''everyone''. They make Yildiz Tilbe a Hitler bogyman, or only interpret a matter of numbers when it comes to the killings of four kids playing on the beach, while having a laughter contesting against the wind and time.

Let them not enter this ''everyone'' just like many other Muslim countries in that ''silent world'', the people of which are on the same side with Palestine and who knows what side their governments are taking.

Let those, who are silent against a terrorist state which cuts off a kid''s laughter with a bomb, not take our side in this world and hereafter.

Such an unusual thing. It''s again Turkey, the history of Turkey, which does not only raise its voice but teaches how hard it is to do, and that it requires a long time to stand firmly against such unfairness and oppression.

I hope the question of Palestine will even be an exemplary proof in dealing with our national problems collaboratively without separation. Otherwise, we are left with chanting bitter verses of poetry.

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Dressed with a pain every day called Palestine

He escapes the gaze of a Palestinian boy

-while he is dead –

-because he is dead-

He died while expecting justice from the world in vain

Holding in his hands nothing but his prayers.