Fatma Tuncer: "They looked for hope on the shores"

Fatma Tuncer: "They looked for hope on the shores"
Date: 18.3.2020 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Fatma Tuncer writes on refugees. Here is the full article.

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We witness all of the pressure and exclusionary attitudes racist fascists have on refugees. However, they did not prefer this harsh journey. While living their ordinary lives in Syria, they found themselves in the dark scenario written by the imperialist Zionist mentality centuries ago. Then everything changed and they were driven to lands they did not know. Fascists have begun to say “why did they come, why did not they fight?” And provoke provocative attitudes, while people with conscientious sensitivity embraced them in their new lives. Whereas, they met the bitter face of the war, it was their children who tried to breathe between the ruins, the babies who hugged the bodies of their parents and slept belonged to them, they were the ones trying to breathe under the bombs. War was not just images we watched on screens, war meant death, blood, hunger, poverty, separation and fear. Therefore, no one should cut down on where he lives, no one should speak without empathy. Nobody should underestimate the suffering of the oppressed… Besides, in such cases, our religion responded to the emigration, you cannot haram what Allah has made halal, you cannot afford it.
 
Refugees were hoping for when they set out to achieve a great refuge from persecution in Turkey. In a sister country, there would be people who would heal their wounds, they believed in this heartily. However, it is a pity that the mud we did not throw as a guest and the torment we did not do left. We said why they did not fight, we did not deserve anything, we said why the state is helping them, they do not know the rules of adaptation, and we said rude and ignorant people. We have always excluded these people in our schools, workplaces and social environments, we have not opened or opened a private space for them in our lives. They came as sister countries and came with a thousand hopes, but none of them were happy, none of them were hopeful. Still they resisted and tried to survive despite all this exclusion.
 
President Erdogan's announcement that the border gates will be opened to refugees who want to go to Europe caused a great deal of movement and the refugees fell to the coast without hesitation. Undoubtedly, reaching Europe would not be a solution for them, but they had no choice but to seek a new life for them. The brothers worked in very difficult conditions in the country they knew for very small wages, paid exorbitant money to houses that smell of damp, were excluded, snored and regarded as second class people. The exclusionary attitude of these people, who they knew of, was even heavier than the enemy's shell. Therefore, they immediately evaluated the signal they received and started looking for new hopes on the coast.
 
According to the report of the U.S., there are over 60 million refugees around the world. However, this number is increasing steadily. According to the UN's 2014 report, as a result of the civil war in Syria, 7 million people had to leave their country and 5 million people had to be displaced. But no one draws attention to the violence that global terrorism has inflicted on the world and under what conditions these people have left their homes. No one sees, does not want to see the pain that flows into the hearts of these people. Isn't it strange?

YEREL HABERLER

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