These painful events we have experienced in recent days are not just individual cases of insanity; they are the manifestation of a social, political, cultural and human decay.
We are all responsible for this suffering.
As much as the pain of the children we have lost, we must also feel the pain of the child who fired bullets into those young bodies. Because as a society, we cannot ignore our share in a fourteen-year-old's state of mind.
Family, society, government, opposition, system, in short, we are all both victims and killers.
In the media, there are nonsensical mafia, police, war, historical fabricated heroic series in the evening, distorted relationships broadcast in the daytime, gossip programs about who did what with whom, discussion programs for hours with the participation of shitologists who think they know everything but do not know their place. Failure to follow digital media, families being unfamiliar with the technological developments and digital language differences of the new generation, etc. etc.
There are so many things to say from the top to the bottom!
For example.
- School Period: The transformation of schools into exam-oriented, soulless buildings; the child is seen as a “statistic” rather than a “human being”. The education system produces “competition and exclusion” instead of “love and belonging”.
- After school: Young people lose hope for a legitimate existence in a system where justice and advancement depend not on “work” but on “acquaintances”. This pushes them into nihilistic and violence-oriented underworlds.
- The “Dark” Legacy of Media and Social Media Role Models and Digital Role Models: The perception of the “righteousness of the strong” that started with Mafia TV series, combined with the lonely children who were drawn into radical violence groups and “hero and anti-hero” beautifications on social media (Telegram, etc.).
The Irresponsibility of News Language: Media language that presents the crime as a tabloid element and inspires other “lonely” young people by detailing the killer's methods.
The fact that telling the details of the actions and structures of mafia groups brings ratings and money, attracts people who call themselves journalists, and keeps these mafia structures on the agenda on youtube and social media accounts.
The irresponsibility of politicians, journalists and artists who praise mafia leaders.
Political Polarization and Partisanship: Despair and helplessness caused by the dominance of staffing in public institutions and the replacement of merit by partisanship and partisanship in interviews.
- A “lonely” society that has become distant from human feelings and deprived of love: Families who are crushed between technological speed and economic crisis fail to realize the rupture in the inner world of the child. The fact that a child becomes so lonely that killing his/her peers becomes a “plan” is the biggest proof that the emotional ties of society have been severed.
Cultural Wasteland: The replacement of art, literature and human values that foster empathy with “brute force and rajas”.
- Failure of the State to fulfill its Constitutional and International Obligations
Right to Life and Duty to Protect: Article 41 of the Constitution obliges the state to “take measures to protect children against all forms of abuse and violence”. State institutions must fulfill their constitutional duty immediately.
- Guidance and Social Service Vulnerability
Establishment of Early Identification Mechanisms: The Child Protection Law (5395) provides for protective and supportive measures for children at risk of being dragged into crime. However, the insufficient number of guidance counselors in schools and the shortcomings in the field work of social workers prevent the timely identification of “isolated and radicalized” youth, as in the case of Kahramanmaraş and Urfa.
In these incidents, the state should be considered not only as a structure that “takes security measures” but also as a “whole of negligence” that promises to provide children with a just future, a safe social environment and a love-based education, but fails to fulfill this promise due to lack of merit and systemic gaps.
It must be recognized that the opposition has not fulfilled its responsibility as much as the government has not fulfilled its responsibility. Instead of using such incidents as political material, it is essential to cooperate on a solution.
No child is born a murderer; we have offered them cronyism not merit, the power of violence not love, impunity not justice, the “success factory” not school. The guns that exploded in Kahramanmaraş and Siverek are in fact only the leading earthquake of the social collapse that has been woven together for years; if we fail to achieve social transformation, we will all be buried under the real earthquake.