Live together as brothers or perish together as fools

A person who was injured but survived the massacre at Suruç, Loren Elva, said, ?I am not well; I will not be well.?

We do not have to be well. 

But we need to be brave to be able to continue living as a human being in a place where the everyday topic is death and to be able to find an answer to the question ?Is peace possible?? 

We have to be able to see that religions containing the state in them and states containing religion in them are obstructing peace, dividing humanity.

We have to face the fact that governments are not able to provide peace in this state of affairs; that they are a reflection of us actually.

We should first put out the fire inside us. 

While a portion of people felt a deep sorrow about Suruç, another portion did not even come near pain. Or they did not show the required respect. The same goes for the two slain police officers. 

It was the same in the political arena also. A party leader, having received 16 percent of the votes of the people, has questioned ?the goals and methods of those who set out with the excuse of Kobane.?

The government spokesman said it was meaningful that no Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) executives were present at the scene of the attack - as a matter of fact, a member of the HDP party assembly and her son were among the victims. 

How many times have we been saying this? Even our pain has been divided. 

Yet, pain is one; the pain of one person is the pain of all humanity. 

As long as we limit ourselves emotionally to one group, to one political party, to a sect, we will not be able to understand this. No war will end, which does no good but only generates pain. 

Peace is only possible when we feel the pain of...