The dictators' massacre race and the power of being right

The dictators of the old regimes in Egypt and Syria have entered a race of massacre against their own peoples. The fresh Egyptian putschist dictator first opened fire at random on completely unarmed, peaceful demonstrators, on those who had performed the dawn prayer at the start of the fast in the month of Ramadan, killing over a hundred people and wounding hundreds more.

The Syrian Baathist dictator, again in Ramadan, without regard for fasting, tarawih, suhoor or Khalid ibn al-Walid, set records in deaths per unit of time with the bombardments he carried out against the civilian population with his aircraft.

The Egyptian putschist, again without regard for the spiritual atmosphere of Ramadan, at Rabia Square, again against unarmed people, opened fire at random after tarawih, killing over two hundred people and again wounding thousands.

The Syrian continued the same acts as if in a race. Meanwhile he did not neglect to congratulate the coup in Egypt and to declare it the end of political Islam. How Iran and Hezbollah heard and understood this, we could never understand.

The Egyptian dictator raised the bar quite high most recently at Adawiya Square with the most savage massacre world history has been able to record. Opening volley fire on demonstrators who had declared that their peaceful state was stronger than tanks and cannons, he savagely slaughtered 2600 people without distinguishing women from children, and wounded over 10 thousand.

Would the butcher of Syria fall short of this? As if racing his rival in Egypt, he set the bar even higher than his. The highest and most savage massacre recorded since the beginning of the crisis in Syria was carried out in this very timeframe. That terrible image of the bodies of innocent children lined up side by side was given precisely these days. The bodies of those children, all caught in their sleep by the most conscienceless, most treacherous chemical weapon: the victory of which power struggle can they guarantee?

Looking at this picture, there is the massacre of children, women, civilians, the gravest crimes against humanity. Let us now count even the coup and the crimes against democracy as a light offense next to all this; that is there too.

In this picture, besides the grave responsibility of many countries, there is the complicity in crime not only of those who do it but of those who stand by. This is not a picture that anyone can turn their face away from and ignore. It is a picture that will prick into the very inside of your eye whichever way you turn your face.

Have no doubt that those who remain silent on this picture today will sooner or later be condemned with heavy sentences in the conscience of humanity. Just as they are already condemned before the oppressed peoples whose sighs are rising to the heavens and before the collective conscience in solidarity with those peoples.

Even so, the countries of the world's established order are not giving the necessary reaction to this picture. They keep whistling while looking at the sky. They are shameless, they are unprincipled. Risking falling into the position of leaders who, before their own peoples, are characterless, who feed unprincipled massacres, they choose to stay silent over what is happening in the name of certain balances.

Though, God is above, they are not exactly silent either; some of them support those who carry out the massacre. Some of them, with the media means at their disposal, try to distort the facts as much as possible. People who earlier distorted their holy books are making history repeat itself. The values they embrace today, such as democracy and human rights, they distort at the first real test; they devour the idols they themselves built.

The only thing that stands out in all that is happening is nothing other than that the world's states are in a bankruptcy of values. For what must be done morally in the face of all this is clear. A coup will be called a coup, a massacre will be called a massacre, and a clear stance will be taken against it. If the whole world now took a common stance on this, such things might perhaps not happen anywhere in the world, and thus people might perhaps be safe in this regard.

Yet the world's leading countries either failed to take a stance on these most basic matters or, with very insidious calculations, actually tried to bring the Islamic world under control. Whatever calculation they may have done it with, they have gone bankrupt, they have lost.

The only country that perhaps wins in this picture is Turkey. Only Turkey insisted on calling things what they are, without conjunctural calculations, and rebelled against oppression.

It is said that this rebellion of Turkey's pushes it into isolation. And what they propose so as not to fall into this isolation is to continue good relations with bloody-handed dictators and putschists as if nothing were happening? Can such a thing be?

Besides, who said Turkey is alone? On the contrary, Turkey's stance, which everyone knows full well is right and just, has become everyone's nightmare. The establishment of new balances in international relations is inevitable, and those who are elements of these balances today will not be able to keep their positions in the world of the future. Because this order as it is is far from being sustainable. Everyone knows this. If you try to measure Turkey's isolation only by the attitude of some states, you will also miss the dynamic of change in the world. Yet, as Yıldıray Oğur put it very well on a TV program, the world is not made up only of 200 states and their rulers.

There are six billion people who, despite all the distortions of the media, can see everything that is happening today as it is. Today the great majority of the peoples ruled by the states said to be having problems with Turkey over both Syria and Egypt find Turkey's policy right and support it, not their own states'.

In fact everyone is aware of this, and there is a fear that Turkey's principled policy has cast into the hearts of these sick states. If you really knew that fear, you would also know what kind of show of power relative isolation is.