Abdulkadir Özkan: "Brotherhood is needed, not war"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "Brotherhood is needed, not war"
Date: 24.5.2022 14:30

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on brotherhood. Here is the full article.

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Even when talking about fraternity, when the society is addressed with a tone and style that is almost as if it is fighting, the call for fraternity does not have much meaning. However, there is a need for a heartfelt call for brotherhood in order to ensure the peace and prosperity of our country and our people in the face of the dominant powers in the world. In an environment where those who call for halal are declared as enemies and traitors, the rhetoric of brotherhood does not make much sense. However, it will be much easier and more beneficial to establish peace instead of fighting. It is impossible that the authorities did not know this fact. However, in our country, for many years, a separating and polarizing style has been preferred as an easy way in politics. For many years, the right-leftist distinction continued. Although it is known that this distinction is useful only for some coup-loving internal and external circles, a discriminatory style was preferred.
 
Perhaps our young people born after 2000 do not know much about the damage this style has inflicted on our country, but those over the age of 40 know very well. We lived in days when our country was turned into liberated areas and leftists could not enter the neighborhoods dominated by the rightists, and the rightists could not enter the neighborhoods dominated by the leftists. Beyond that, mutual attacks and murders were committed. In short, hostilities were created out of nowhere. The strange thing is that the parties were declaring each other as traitors and sold out in the past, as they do today. In other words, those who killed each other to save (!) the homeland could not even realize that they were serving the global powers in the events. We can say that one side was serving US imperialism, declaring it patriotism, and the other side was serving Soviet imperialism, and doing this in order to save its country from US imperialism. Although the name of today's division is not clearly left and right as it used to be, the fact that the society is separated and this separation is tried to be converted into votes is not much different from the left-right segregation in the past. Because this time, when the parties declare each other as patriots, traitors and supporters of terrorism, it is not possible for them to come together and fight for the interests of the country. It is more regrettable that those who hope to benefit from this divisive style are those who are in a position to govern the country.
 
All this to draw attention to the fact that the imperialist powers act together in the world, for example, although the USA and Russia seem to be facing each other in various corners of the world, they certainly do not step on each other's feet or weaken each other. On the other hand, we are producing traitors inside out of nowhere. This makes the job of global power centers easier.
 
I would like to give an example of the last event we experienced. As is known, Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership. As Turkey, we opposed this membership. Because these two countries support terrorist organizations that we have been fighting for years. For this reason, we rightly say that we cannot be together in NATO with countries that cooperate with terrorist organizations. On the other hand, US President Biden declares that he fully supports the NATO membership of the two countries in question. There's no point in asking why full support. Because the USA has been giving full support to terrorist organizations in our region for many years. He even pays some of his staff. In other words, the USA is satisfied with the support of Sweden and Finland to the terrorists. In short, as Turkey, we have to stand arm in arm in the face of these global power circles in order to survive. If we divide the society with these unfulfilled vote-gathering calculations and make hostilities dominate instead of brotherhood, our country will suffer from this. However, we need brotherhood and love, not fight.

YEREL HABERLER

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