I BELIEVE THAT
I
believe that both Armenian and Turkish youth can destroy hatred with collective
struggle. I am trying to create and raise awareness by my articles especially
in Turkish youth about the Armenian Genocide and also the other genocides which
had been perpetrated by our Turkish ancestors like Assyrian, Nestorian,
Chaldean, Pontic Greek genocides, so that similiar terrible crimes never perpetrate
again.
I
am trying to change the wrong perception about Armenians and Greeks in Turkey established by the lies of the
official ideology. I am trying to show the awful truths of our history to the
Turkish youth, so that we can erase the defaults of racist education in Turkey
like saying “One Turk is equal to the whole world” arising from Fascist-
Kemalist ideology which had forbidden existence of all ethnic identities in
Anatolia except being Turk for more than 90 years. Do you know that Adolf Hitler had said "The
first student of Mustafa Kemal was Mussolini, the second is me.”, and also
"What did Ataturk 10 years ago, we are able to do that now".
I
believe that only more conscience can save the World, not big ideologies, big
leaders, more money, more weapons or more technology, because none of tough
laws can be more powerful than conscience. Conscience can be developed by
empathy, and empathy begins with recognizing the pain of the other people. We
all have to develop empathy with the all other people in the World who are
suffering and stand behind all humans who are oppressed, ignored, despised,
exploited, abused.
We
have got to succeed in feeling the pain of the all humans all over the World
who have different ethnicity, skin colour, language, belief, ideology, gender
and sexual orientation from us by refusing all kind of discrimination.
No,
I do not apologise just because of Armenian, Assyrian, Nestorian, Chaldean and
Pontic Greek genocides, but also I apologise for Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia,
Darfur, Holocaust and the all other terrible genocides perpetrated by the
conscienceless humans of our World, in the name of humanity, as an honourable
human with conscience.
I
believe that “we shall overcome someday”.
SERKAN ENGIN
JUNE 2014
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