{"id":283550,"date":"2026-03-10T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=283550"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:24:17","slug":"to-those-self-interested-people-we-know-as-friends-who-are-relatives-of-the-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/to-those-self-interested-people-we-know-as-friends-who-are-relatives-of-the-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"To those self-interested people who are relatives of the donkey, whom we know as friends..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That's the story!<\/p>\n<p>A man buys a donkey from a neighboring village. He gets on the donkey's back and sets off on the road to his village...<br \/>\nOn the way, he meets a man from that village with whom he had a previous enmity. The antagonist finds an excuse, gathers his friends to beat him up and they go after him.<br \/>\nThen they come to the stream. The donkey is stubborn and will not cross the water. The man, on the donkey's back, with a stick in his hand, tries to lead the donkey across the stream.<br \/>\nFull opportunity!<br \/>\n\u201cYou are tormenting the donkey!\u201d they all attack him together.<br \/>\nThey take him off the donkey and throw him into the stream.<br \/>\nPlay, God, play!<br \/>\nThey beat the shit out of him.<br \/>\nHe goes to court.<\/p>\n<p>The judge asks:<br \/>\n\u201cTell me what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man begins to explain:<br \/>\n\u201cYour honor, excuse me, I needed a donkey. I heard that there was a donkey for sale in a neighboring village. I went, I bargained, I bought the donkey from the owner. I got on, I set off. When I came to the creek, the donkey was stubborn and wouldn't cross the water. So I touched the donkey lightly with the stick in my hand. Then I don't know what happened... The next thing I knew, I found myself in the stream. I have no bones left unbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge asks:<br \/>\n\u201cSo why did you hit the donkey?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man answers:<br \/>\n\u201cYour Honor... How was I to know that the entire neighboring village was related to the donkey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation is not much different today.<br \/>\nIf someone comes out and talks about a solution to the issue of stray dogs that kill 25-30 people every year and injure dozens of people every day...<br \/>\nSuddenly there is a commotion.<br \/>\nFrom the streets to social media...<br \/>\nFrom newspapers to television.<br \/>\nIt's not enough!<br \/>\nArtists, academics, politicians, parliamentary benches...<br \/>\nIt turns out there are so many \u201crelatives\u201d!<br \/>\nBut somehow it is not possible to see the same sensitivity when the issue is really human life, when there is persecution in other countries.<br \/>\nTwo words should also be said to those who remain silent today for the sake of their interests.<br \/>\nOn the X platform owned by Elon Musk, while the atrocities in Iran are ignored, the visibility of posts about Iran is reduced, while the narratives of Israel and the US are polished...<br \/>\nOn top of the fact that the Jeffrey Epstein files, which have been talked about for years, are still in the dark...<\/p>\n<p>They all remind us of the same story.<br \/>\nBecause most of the time it is not about justice.<br \/>\nMost of the time it is not about principle.<br \/>\nMost of the time there is trouble.<br \/>\nAnd when it comes to interests...<br \/>\nSuddenly you see how many \u201crelatives\u201d of that donkey have appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The \u201cdonkey\u201d is purely symbolic here. We are against cruelty to animals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because most of the time it is not about justice, it is about self-interest.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":283551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-283550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283552,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283550\/revisions\/283552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}