On social media, there are fascists who call themselves ataturkists, republicans and secularists, but when they remove the mask, they are just like ISIS terrorists.
this underdeveloped primate who used the insult “sword residue.”, an insult that circulated in neighborhoods and even on some television screens
And to whom is this insult directed? Alevis, known for their lives, their faith and their attachment to this land for millennia.
Who are these so-called “remnants of the sword”?
They are the yeast of Anatolia, the breath of Khorasan, the word of Pir Sultan, the poetry embroidered on the skin of Nesimi.
They are the hearths that were burned in 1514 in Çaldıran, and the 40 thousand lives that were thrown into wells in the 16th century by Yavuz's edict as ’Kızılbaş“.
But the real issue is recent history.
Maraş 1978: In 7 neighborhoods, houses were raided, people were shot at their workplaces, in front of mosques, on the balconies of their homes. The official figure is 106, the unofficial figure is much higher. Children born that night were called “orphans of Maraş”.
Corum 1980: The massacre that started the day before the election took 57 lives. The bodies were removed en masse, no one claimed them. The wounded were threatened in hospitals.
Sivas 1978: Yes, you have not heard wrong. Exactly 15 years before July 2, 1993, another massacre took place in Sivas on September 4, 1978. As part of the dirty game called ’right-left conflict’ of the period, 11 more Alevi lives were targeted and killed in the center of Sivas. The city was turned into a war zone. This event was like a harbinger of the fire that would come 15 years later: A provocation that the state either turned a blind eye to or was too late to intervene.
Sivas 1993 (Madımak): On July 2, 33 intellectuals and 2 hotel employees attending the Pir Sultan Abdal Festivities were burned alive in the Madımak Hotel by a radical Islamist mob. Among those shouting “Satan Aziz!” and “Hellfire!” were children and neighbors. Metin Altıok, Hasret Gültekin, Muhlis Akarsu, Asım Bezirci... Poets, writers and a 12-year-old boy: Koray Kaya. The Prime Minister of that day, Tansu Çiller, would say, “Thank God, our people outside the hotel were not harmed.”.
Gazi Neighborhood 1995: The provocation that started with a bomb thrown into a coffeehouse turned into an armed attack that lasted for two days. 17 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.
“These are the people you call ”the remnants of the sword".
They are the ones who were shot in the back and collapsed on the sidewalk in Sivas in 1978,
The lives that went up in smoke in Sivas in 1993,
Mothers whose homes were raided in Maraş,
Orphaned babies in Corum,
They are the ones killed in Gazi while sitting in their café and the laborers protesting against the massacre of Alevis.
These are not just painful events; they are also stories of brave people who paid the price and kept their faith.
Today, years have passed since those massacres. But justice has not been fully achieved, nor have all the perpetrators been brought to justice. The Sivas 1993 case was time-barred in 2012. The reports on Maraş are still ’secret“. Most of those killed in Çorum are ”unknown perpetrators“.
Therefore, I ask those who call it “the remnants of the sword”: What courage is it to be so callous as to consider so much pain, so much resistance, so much memory as “remnants”?
Alevis are a group of people who have paid the price of being a part of this country, often much more heavily than others. But they are not “no more”. They are part of the flesh, bone and breath of this nation.
“Whoever says ”the remnant of the sword" has in fact left his own history behind. Because in this geography, those who pay the price are forgiven, not those who are insulted. And the names of those who pay the price are only remembered again at a time when the perpetrators are forgotten.
That date hasn't come yet. But it will come.
And on that day, it will not be those who were called “the remnants of swords” who will be remembered, but those who were massacred in Sivas in 1978 and 1993, the mothers who walked to the bullet in Maraş, the youth who resisted in Gazi and Ümraniye.
And it is remembered.
However, those who disguise themselves as Republicans, Kemalists, secularists and call Alevis “the remnants of the sword” - prostitutes whose monkey-bred ideology is money, fascist prostitutes who share the same mentality as ISIS and wear secular masks - know that you are the real remnants in this country.