Today is Mother's Day, I will not celebrate this Mother's Day with sweet words and flowery poems!
\nInstead, I will talk about the mothers who gave birth to humanity, the mothers who have been transformed, changed, engaged in political and religious conflicts, pushed into wars, in short, made to suffer as much as there is suffering in the world!
\nWouldn't the world be a more livable, more beautiful place if no mother had to suffer?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suffering mothers of the world\u201d
\nThis expression symbolizes the common grief of mothers throughout history and today who have been tested by the loss of a child, war, migration or great tragedy.
\nThe mothers in Gaza whose children were slaughtered in front of their eyes and condemned to starvation...<\/p>\n
The mothers of Syrian children, scattered like the grains of a pomegranate in other countries from the war in Syria...
\ngenocided Yazidis and Yazidi mothers...<\/p>\n
Mothers of 165 children killed in an airstrike on February 28, 2026 on Shajereh Tayebeh Girls' Primary School in Minab, Hormuzgan province, Iran....<\/p>\n
Mothers of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina
\nThey are the mothers who are still searching for the bones of the children they lost in the 1995 genocide and are struggling for justice...<\/p>\n
They were mothers in the middle of wars who only wanted to protect the ones they loved most, their children...<\/p>\n
And then there are the Mothers Missing and Seeking Justice...<\/p>\n
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina started a worldwide resistance by gathering in squares wearing white headscarves for years to find their children who were \u201cdisappeared\u201d during the dictatorship.<\/p>\n
In Turkey, a similar example of civil disobedience was the Saturday Mothers...
\nMothers gathered to ask the fate of their relatives who disappeared in detention and to demand the prosecution of the perpetrators...
\nReaching their 1102nd week as of May 9, 2026, the Saturday Mothers' protests are still continuing...<\/p>\n
The Saturday Mothers are considered to be the longest-running civil disobedience movement in Turkey, this long-running struggle is based on one thing, the most painful thing...
\nThe Pain of a Mother's Loss of a Child...<\/p>\n
It was enough just to be \u2018human\u2019 to listen, to understand, to be concerned about these people whose pain would only be relieved when they died.<\/p>\n
While another vigil was held by the Diyarbak\u0131r Mothers, with their eyes watching for peace and their hands in prayer for peace, in what conscience could it be fitting to draw votes from the pain they were going through...<\/p>\n
Isn't that what we learned from the graying hair of Metin G\u00f6ktepe's mother before our eyes, justice and filial love....<\/p>\n
How can we talk about so many grieving mothers and not remember Jasmine Minguzzi...
\nWasn't Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi, whom I saw on a Sunday at his computer in his aunt's house, whom his mother said was kissed by an angel at birth, the only son of a mother, whom she sacrificed to social decay?<\/p>\n
Wasn't it the most tangible and cold form of helplessness that we could do nothing but wish patience to the mothers in Mara\u015f who identified the bodies of their children whom they had kissed on the cheeks in the morning and sent to school in the evening...<\/p>\n
It should be the only truth to invite the authorities, politicians and humanity to responsibility instead of fancy congratulatory sentences when we talk about so many suffering mothers, which is unbearable even to imagine.<\/p>\n
The Great Master Nazim Hikmet says:
\nTwo things are forgotten only in death, the face of our mother and the face of our city...<\/p>\n
It is not possible to forget the Mother who has been the face of so much pain...
\nI wish patience to all the grieving mothers,
\nMay the dream of a world where mothers do not suffer come true...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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