The sickness that presents Idlib's oppressed babies as "bloody-handed terrorists"

While Turkey plays the key role in Libya by opening the way to a hitherto blocked possibility of peace, it has also exposed the hypocrisy of the world's peace rhetoric. As is well known, everyone says peace. Pouring words of peace from one's tongue costs nothing; nobody keeps an account of words anyway.

Yet those who say peace night and day were doing nothing in the face of an armed aggressor force in Libya gradually destroying the legitimate government step by step, committing massacres and intimidating civilians. Meanwhile the side under attack was trying to make its voice heard to the whole world with cries for help. Had Turkey not heard this call for help and come to the rescue, there would truly have been no Tripoli administration left, and thus a peace environment secured in fact by the crushing domination of a coup-plotting bandit would have come into being; a peace secured with the blood of tens of thousands of people behind it and the deprivation of living people of their most basic human rights.

While playing the role of the key to peace, Turkey is at the same time demonstrating the attitude that sprinkles water on the parched conscience of humanity in the face of the oppression, inhuman practices and massacres that corrupt every peace environment. With this attitude Turkey becomes rain on the barren, desertified, parched conscience of humanity. For a long time it has been at the top of the world in the field of humanitarian aid.

As it shows this in Libya, it shows it also in Somalia, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in Syria. In all these problem regions there is an extremely obvious difference between the role of other actors and the role of Turkey. Turkey goes everywhere not to create problems but to solve them, not to fight but to reconcile, not to deepen problems but to ease them, and in every place it is present it stands out with a characteristic aspect through this quality.

While in recent days everyone's attention has been on Libya, right next to us in Idlib we are witnessing everyone behaving in keeping with their character. While the wolves take to the field seizing the murky air as an opportunity, Russia and the Syrian regime continue to add crime to the crimes against humanity by once again showing their power against innocent, civilian, defenseless people. It has become so customary by now that nobody expects even a modicum of respect for human rights from Russia or Syria.

It is viewed as "it's Syria, whatever it does is fitting." "It's Russia, it has no share of humanity anyway; to kill one terrorist it can target the lives, property and peace of a thousand civilians."

Meanwhile it may even have missed the terrorist it actually targeted without hitting him, and only civilians, women and children, innocent, defenseless people are the ones who suffer.

Because of this, with tens of thousands of people fleeing the war machines it has deployed irresponsibly and arbitrarily now at Turkey's border, instead of turning around and telling Russia or the Syrian regime to stop, we say why the EU does not take these refugees. Yet what caused the migration is Russia, Iran and the bloody, cruel, expired regime of Syria.

Of course everyone behaves according to their own disposition, temperament and character, and we get so used to it that we do not expect respect for human rights from Russia, Syria and Iran. In their character there is now massacre, there is oppression, there is the extreme stage of disrespect for human rights.

Just as, unfortunately, we no longer expect Kılıçdaroğlu to understand what is happening even a little, and, once he understands, to bring even a little of his conscience into play and assess the matter. He came out and said that all those fleeing Idlib and coming to Turkey are "bloody-handed terrorists." In the very hours when he said this, the cries of a father who had lost three children in a single day were deafening, and yet they somehow could not find Kılıçdaroğlu's ears. Did the questions voiced by Esra Elönü, expressing what she felt and the heart-rending cries of the oppressed, I wonder, find Kılıçdaroğlu's ears?:

"Is the Idlib child who puts on his dead father's shoes and weeps in the mud a terrorist?

Is the radiant-faced old woman who hugs the cat she saved and weeps over her statelessness a terrorist?

Is the little girl who, since the day her mother died, has not let anyone touch her hair so that the braids her mother plaited will not come undone, a terrorist?

Is Erva, who died grain by grain, saying 'I am the olive of the tree beneath which I die,' a terrorist?"

Yes, everyone behaves according to their own temperament, but we, in spite of everything, cannot get used to this temperament, cannot become inured to it, cannot see it as normal.

We wonder what the sickness is that makes Kılıçdaroğlu present the Ervas, the children who weep with mud-covered feet and try to cling to life, the radiant-faced old women who hug their cats and weep over their statelessness, the children who have lost their mothers, siblings and fathers and carry the burden of the world on their backs at this age, as "bloody-handed terrorists." What kind of ideology is it, what kind of thick curtain over the eyes, what kind of hatred and enmity?

After this ideological conditioning, how many particles of humanity, how many grams of compassion, how many grams of tenderness remain to be set aside for his own children and grandchildren?

Above all, what can a politics so wretched in compassion promise to Turkey, to the world, to his own children?

What is it, if not to be written in line with an Assad, a Sisi, the cruelties of Russia and Iran, who, given the chance, see bloody-handed terrorists in children?..