Anjel Dikmek Wrote IS THE EARTHQUAKE OVER?
Türkçe IS THE EARTHQUAKE OVER? In a paragraph of the article I wrote after the earthquake titled "I can't understand I was saying: 'The spirit of solidarity in society, which was revealed by the earthquake disaster, was expressed at Hırant's funeral. The virtue of being able to feel the pain of the other in one's heart, which was revealed in Gezi; sharing, after seeing and experiencing the spirit of organisation, after breathing in that atmosphere after experiencing its beauty, its lightness, the pacifist, which is what those in power fear most, by defaming and polluting these mass movements that have the potential to create a reconciliatory society, how he fell so easily into the trap of the same political game for 150 years. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND how he fell again and again!' While writing those lines, I wonder how the state mind will counter-attack, and with what mise-en-scene this time. your attack? I was asking myself. And as I thought, the attack was not delayed... They were so frightened by the hundreds of thousands of people at Hırant's funeral that they started the week of the fascist doctrine practices. After the earthquake, your saying 'Thank you, Greek brother, thank you, Armenian brother' drove them crazy. Your mobilising all over the country and running to each other's aid angered them. This would jeopardise their existence. You were no better than Greeks and Armenians. You had to hate them. They had to remain there as objects of external 'enemies'. Hate your Kurdish neighbour you should have divided your Muslim-Turkish brothers and sisters into secularist-religious, believers-unbelievers ranks. you should have split up and spewed anger and hatred at each other so that they could get their hands on the internal 'Enemy' object they needed. so that they can keep it underneath, available at all times. You people should hate each other so that you know who your real enemy is. You should not have seen that organised criminal structures, official mafias, are nation states. Throughout human history, wars, massacres and genocides have been waged not because peoples do not like each other, economic interests of those in power, control of land, energy and mineral resources that it was the result of their greed. While being lulled to sleep with militarist views, with the tale of homeland-nation, sacrificing their labour, lives and children for the sake of that you cannot even set up a tent on the land you gave without the permission of the state, with these hostilities, with a blind they numb you with hatred and make you forget. Every term, so that you don't make demands for health, education, security, justice. they create an internal enemy and an external enemy. You pay their salaries, they're supposed to work for your security. they'll have the cops beat you up. Do you know how they do all this? They did it with the white banners of Anadol and Yeşil that they unfurled at a football match in Bursa. They are not ashamed to unfurl the poster of Yeşil, whom they denied for years saying 'there is no such person', because the state is so good he lies, repeatedly and skilfully. And you, my human brother, have been tricked again. You have fallen into the trap. You have forgotten to help each other, sharing, the hundreds of thousands who remain under the ground. Just being HUMAN; how it was something that facilitated everything, the natural flow of life. Existence; how endurable, bearable, honourable it was despite all the pain... You forgot it immediately... The real earthquake will be experienced with this forgetting of yours... All these sufferings have happened because you have always remained blind and deaf to your own reality or quickly forgotten it, and you will continue to live as long as we forget... Anjel Dikme 20-03-2023 Alfortville
