funeral

funeral for Mr. Dink was held yesterday with an estimated number of more than 100 000 people attending. Even though i dont approve the very slogan "We are all Armenians", i fully support the crowd who went there to ask for one simple thing: a better turkey with a more democratic governing.

Yesterday people of Turkey showed that they dont want any more assassinations, they dont want any black days. i just hope this wish will get true in the near future, which i dont feel very optimistic about it. Funeral also showed one more thing. People of Turkey is mature enough to accept everyone as a brother of soil no matter if they are Turkish, Kurdish, or Armenian ethnically. This is something all the turks tried to tell all the time with no one seeming to believe, but i think this incident clearly shows that turks dont see the matters from a racist point of view. I know that the kid who pulled the trigger was a labeled as a nationalist, but the fact is he is too dumb to be anything. he is just a lost boy who thinks the world had been promised to him but got nothing - for the simple reason that he made no real effort to deserve anything. labeling him as a nationalist hitman would be a severe mistake in finding a solution to avoid such assassinations in the future, because blaming an empty series of thoughts with no base but violence will not take anyone nowhere. instead, we just have to deal with the question why kids fall in so easily.

And also I just wish the Armenian society would be mature enough not to turn this saddening incident into another toy for their propaganda machine. While the only sentence closest to an apology for what ASALA had done was something like "I feel sorry for those people. They did nothing wrong other than being a part of a nation who lies about armenian genocide" and although i have never seen any european country who was eager to criticise the armenian society for their wrongdoing, once again we see them lining up to condemn turkey, as if turkish government herself, or worse turks themselves are to blame.

but the black game seems not to work this time. this murder didnot make turkey weaker. on the contrary we seem to be more stronger, more determined about our demands from life itself.