The patience of Turks is running thin. Calls for regional curfews if not emergency rule are increasing.
Terrorism is escalating. The attack in southeastern Dağlıca by the separatist gang claimed the lives of 16 beloved sons in military uniforms.
Even if there might me many ostriches around, irrespective of how dreadful it might be, reality cannot be hidden forever. No one might want to admit it, but is it not the reality of today’s Turkey that there is de facto emergency rule or martial law in almost one-fifth of the country?
It was as if the entire world collapsed on me. Was it possible at all to look at that photograph of a little boy’s body washed up on a Bodrum beach without pain in the heart?
In democratic countries, election campaigns probably start with rallies, an inauguration of some local administration or central government achievements.
Turkey was marking Sunday the anniversary of the Great Victory with ceremonies, limited to a presidential reception and commemorative events.
Sociologists and psychiatrists might eventually come up with an answer, but no seismologist would succeed in measuring the scale of the massive quake in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
What would you do? How would you behave? Was it abnormal for someone who lost his 32-year-old younger brother in a terrorist attack to cry and ask why he was killed?
The number of soldiers and policemen who have fallen in terrorism-related violence has exceeded 57 in the past 45 days.
