EARTHQUAKE and STATE (News File) Written by Bayram KAYA
Türkçe English Deutsch Italiano Français Ελληνικά Kurdî Español The great catastrophe turned into a massacre The year is 1513, the place is Maraş. There is an earthquake disaster in this region where tens of thousands of people live. caves, makeshift village houses, towns, castles and palaces were badly damaged. If this was the only catastrophe, it could be compensated. The great catastrophe follows the earthquake. The region The people are Bektashi - Alevi according to the custom of the time. Taking advantage of the earthquake, the Ottoman Sultan Yavuz; Using the problems with Azerbaijan, Iran and Iraq as an excuse, the Ottoman Sultan Yavuz The army launched a widespread massacre attack against the people. Thousands of Turkmens were massacred, Those who managed to escape sought refuge in Iran and Azerbaijan, and mass migration took place. The Shah himself Ismail welcomed and helped those who came. This time, a great war, which we call the Ottoman-Persian War in history ''religious and sectarian war'' destroys the geography... The ethnic cleansing that followed the earthquake and Bloody religious wars last for years... Sufferings multiply, multiply, multiply, problems until today is transported. The year is 2023, 510 years have passed. The place is Maraş again. 7.8 and 7.6 centred on Pazarcık and Elbistan. Another major catastrophe occurs with two major earthquakes of great magnitude. 11 provinces, 13,500,000 people disaster, tens of thousands of houses are destroyed; earthquake experts have found at least, but not less than They say 200,000 people are left. The government, as ruthless as the Ottoman sultan, does not help. 1 days, 2 days, 3 days... no rescue aid is organised, our citizens are trapped under the rubble they freeze to death. The great disaster turns into a massacre. Democratic Mass Organisations work with all their hearts. A great power of solidarity from people to people mobilised, a serious rescue operation takes place. Many citizens were rescued, but the work serious, heavy machinery such as cranes and rescue vehicles are required to remove the debris. Without vehicles rescue work without equipment is inadequate. The government at the head of the state is insensitive, unconcerned and It is relentless. Even the Konya highway to the earthquake zone is closed to vehicles due to snow. Solidarity from people to people is blocked by Konya for 24 hours. The rulers have been in power for 24 years. They even pocketed and ate the $37 billion earthquake taxes collected. They have nothing to give to the people. there's nothing left. They have turned a state institution such as AFAD into a racket. A centuries-old institution like the Red Crescent and lent it to imam hatip graduates. In AFAD and the Red Crescent, there are no meritorious people They left no experts, they dismissed them, they finished the institutions. Even on the tenth day, the wreckage If the rescue could have been organised on the first day and on the second day, thousands of people would have been rescued. people could have been saved, this trauma could have been avoided. But do those who run the state care? They are after perception in order to maintain their power. On the very first day, they were saying that they were in the earthquake zone and that the state was strong. But in the first three days and no one's seen them or asked for their help. They don't even have an organised army they couldn't. The army has hundreds of helicopters. With them, Pekale will have the miners out in 5-6 hours, rescue teams from municipalities and mass organisations could have been moved to earthquake zones. Foreign The rescue teams coming from the countries were equipped with highly developed equipment and tools, if they could be delivered to the region as soon as possible. But where are they? and caused a massacre. On the contrary, the first days of the earthquake With the army, they started military bombings against Syria, which, like Turkey, had been reduced to rubble. They looked for an opportunity similar to the situation in 1513. They wanted to provoke a war they tried to cover up the massacre. But they could not create the perception they wanted. This time, the opposition said that the earthquake let him go to his region, exhaust himself, then he will land behind them with aid trucks and crush them "we'll get through, we'll create a good perception", but that didn't work either, they didn't get any interest; they kept their mouths shut. and started to swear and curse. Anyway, there is an opposition that can tell them to "watch your mouth". it didn't. But that didn't work either. Now all his cohorts are swearing, there's a big problem in the state. Even the swearing It failed to create the necessary tension, polarise and attract attention. The fault lines of the earthquake in the political sphere as if it's going to cause an earthquake. What is the state? Those who hear the sounds of moaning and screaming coming from under the collapse to rescue the victims from the wreckage. Citizens have only one expectation. The state, with machines and rescue vehicles to lift the wreckage and rescue those underneath. But where is he? social state? The state is absent in the earthquake zone. The government, the governor, the police, the military, the prosecutor, the local administrators there is no one representing the state. There is only help and solidarity from people to people. But it is not enough. Why does the state exist? Where is the state? The state is under the rubble!... such cries are rightly everywhere rose. AFAD, Red Crescent, military, police, governor could not even make a symbolic appearance in the first three days. I wonder if all these administrators were worried about their own families in the first days? State organisation why it fell apart, why there was no state. These questions remain in the air, but the power that emerged three days later On the first day, the AKP and MHP started to say that the state was here, 'our state is strong'; like foxes too They are cunning; their aim is to create the perception that we are here. Tunceli Municipality, with its limited resources became the institution distributing the soup. Antalya, Izmir, Istanbul and Ankara Metropolitan Municipalities 100 times more rescue and aid than they were doing. People-to-people solidarity It was powerful, but the people have nothing. The state ruled by the AKP MHP government was really powerful, but it was a reverse power: Aid prevent people from taking to the roads with their lorries, seize solidarity lorries on their way, seize the people's stamps its own stamps on the aid it collects and writes the name of the presidency on it. even discriminating against partisans, appointing trustees to Alevi people's aid organisations in Pazarcık, etc. The state was very effective and powerful. The state confiscated all the tents on their way; it was as if the Red Crescent It was forbidden to distribute clothes and supplies and to set up tents other than AFAD. But despite this, on the 17th day They were only able to set up a few symbolic tent cities. Citizens are lamenting and weeping still looking for tents, still asking for tents. Can the state be so cruel? What is the function of the state, social Is there a difference between a state and a centralised, militarist state? If the state was strong, this great massacre why it happened, why the cries for rescue from under the rubble were ignored, why help Why was the aid of the people who collected it confiscated? There are so many questions, but no answers. After all The state appeared in its historical sense, with its true face. The state is one part of the population is nothing other than its sovereignty over the state. Even if the form of government changes, the form of state in the sense that the state is a tool of domination. The state is an instrument of domination of one class over another. Let's end this article with a news item that appeared in the newspapers. The Maraş earthquake was predicted in advance. so well known to the people that the President of the Maras Chamber of Geology, the Mayor of Maras "We're on a fault line, let's take precautions. What did the mayor of Maras say? "I don't believe in science, there is no need for prevention"... Yes, he is a religious personality. he was ignorant of religion. Even religion says, first tie your donkey to a sturdy stake, then entrust it to God. Not believing in science is a disaster...
