I BELIEVE THAT
I believe that both
Armenian and Turkish youth can destroy hatred with collective struggle. I am
trying to create and raise awareness by my articles especially in Turkish youth
about the Armenian Genocide and also the other genocides which had been perpetrated
by our Turkish ancestors like Assyrian, Nestorian, Chaldean, Pontic Greek
genocides, so that similiar terrible crimes never perpetrate again.
I am trying to change
the wrong perception about Armenians and Greeks
in Turkey established by the lies of the official ideology. I am trying
to show the awful truths of our history to the Turkish youth, so that we can
erase the defaults of racist education in Turkey like saying “One Turk is equal
to the whole world” arising from Fascist- Kemalist ideology which had forbidden
existence of all ethnic identities in Anatolia except being Turk for more than
90 years. Do you know that Adolf Hitler
had said "The first student of Mustafa Kemal was Mussolini, the second is
me.”, and also "What did Ataturk 10 years ago, we are able to do that
now".
I believe that only
more conscience can save the World, not big ideologies, big leaders, more
money, more weapons or more technology, because none of tough laws can be more
powerful than conscience. Conscience can be developed by empathy, and empathy
begins with recognizing the pain of the other people. We all have to develop
empathy with the all other people in the World who are suffering and stand
behind all humans who are oppressed, ignored, despised, exploited, abused.
We have got to
succeed in feeling the pain of the all humans all over the World who have
different ethnicity, skin colour, language, belief, ideology, gender and sexual
orientation from us by refusing all kind of discrimination.
No, I do not
apologise just because of Armenian, Assyrian, Nestorian, Chaldean and Pontic
Greek genocides, but also I apologise for Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur,
Holocaust and the all other terrible genocides perpetrated by the
conscienceless humans of our World, in the name of humanity, as an honourable
human with conscience.
I believe that “we
shall overcome someday”.
SERKAN
ENGIN
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