In order to not feel ashamed tomorrow...

While caskets with the flag wrapped around them are laid to rest every day, the number of martyrs is now in the double digits. The bodies of civilians are kept in deep freezers; children are watching the bloodbath on the streets. 

Society is agonizing in despair. Three or four people there, five or ten people here continue calling for peace in the hope that maybe someone will hear. 

Some others on the other hand, under the name of ?protesting martyr funerals? are threatening the lives of Kurdish citizens with stones, clubs and weapons in their hands. 

They stabbed a 21-year-old youth in the heart because they heard him speak Kurdish. They blocked roads and ripped apart the plates of vehicles that bore numbers of eastern provinces. They attacked the businesses of Kurds. They torched the houses and vehicles of Kurdish workers. 

They are the unconscious people who think they love their country by burning the places where people earn their living, by lynching them. They are the ones we remember very well from various periods of history. 

The polarization policies adopted to consolidate votes have brought the country to this point. 

Hostilities and wars are re-adapted and presented to society. Brains are washed with nationalism propaganda. The fire of revenge is fueled by speeches. Sentimental connections are trying to be made with collective fears. A public hate is created. Those people who are against war are treated as terrorists. 

As if it was the only way to love your country, those who do not act with deep nationalistic feelings are told to ?Leave the country.? There is an attempted alienation from society directed at those who do not embrace certain designed ?sensitivities? with equal intensity and...