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    'IS THIS A PKK FLAG, KIDS?'/'NO, AUNTIE, IT IS LGBT'

    Hurriyet
    June 8 2013
    Turkey

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    They are asking: How did these people get together? Those who do not
    want to see (actually what is pretty obvious) the reason for the coming
    together of so many people who are otherwise unable to come together
    politically and class-wise have overloaded their imaginations. They are
    looking for a guy here and there, in Houston, sitting on his leather
    swivel chair pushing a button. They are talking about zellos, mellos;
    and that those on the streets were being paid.

    Foreign focal points are being sought; they are trying to deport a
    few Erasmus students as agents. They are funny.

    Because they have dedicated their energy to generating conspiracy
    theories and to defaming this voice, they totally miss the more
    important point. Are those people who have gathered in Gezi Park and
    all the others who have met in other town squares of Turkey where
    police did not intervene, are they the same people of 10 days ago? I
    think the number of cities where no demonstration has taken place,
    no forum conducted, no speaker's corner set up, no pots and pans
    banged is just about five or six. Those people who have touched each
    other over there, are they the same as the day they started?

    Those attempts to blackout the roots of this movement, in its best
    known form, are being made by using the "immoral" card. The muezzin
    of the mosque that was tuned into an infirmary at the time when police
    violence was at its heaviest personally said nobody drank beer inside,
    but the rumor was spread intentionally. It is quite hard to comprehend
    how this has reached into "group sex" claims, this much malignancy,
    how life is regarded through this much focus on reproduction. But,
    what happened on the Night of the Miraj? What is to be defended is
    that everybody lives the life they prefer to live; nobody made any
    demands, nobody put any "bans" (this is against the spirit anyway)
    but not one person among the 50,000 drank alcohol. This was done with
    a political persistence.

    A person can only shape his prejudices into the pretext of observation
    if that person is sitting in his room and not out in the square. By
    looking at the Turkish flags and focusing on the "soldiers of
    Mustafa Kemal" they will try to monotype the movement; they refuse
    to see the proclamations coming from the same place of "We will not
    be anybody's soldiers. We are Mustafa Keser's soldiers." Moreover,
    they do not recognize how a portion of the "extreme nationalists"
    have transformed in the last 10 days.

    An elderly lady asked, "Kids, is this the PKK flag?" A lesbian answered
    her, "No aunty, it is the LGBT flag." The lady walked away saying
    "Oh, all right." Those who are still looking from this point are not
    aware of the value of this. No matter what, they are also not aware
    that hundreds of Turks have changed their ideas about the Kurdish
    movement and they are also not aware of the sincere confessions and
    even apologies of hundreds of Turks.

    Yes, despite everything, there are still those who have goosebumps
    when they see the picture of Ocalan. For days, they do not understand
    that the mass has such a power. They do not look into the meaning
    of the meeting of the old school left tradition with the young
    opposition. They do not grasp the importance, when a young woman
    takes a book from the library and says, "It is weird I do not give
    anything in return," that she is discovering the outside of the
    egocentrism she was born into. They do not have time to understand
    those who arrive from work with their ties, the stir in the plazas,
    the labor neighborhoods, the malls that have been subject to actions,
    the capital that apologizes, the mainstream media, and what this
    mixture can create.

    The Armenians have written, "You have taken our cemetery; you will not
    be taking our park," reminding that Gezi Park was once an Armenian
    Cemetery. Can the racist that passes past this sign be the same? If
    he is there the next day, that means he is not.

    There are some who try to categorize this attempt as apolitical. They
    may be disorganized but this is the most political people's movement
    in the Turkish history. Do not underestimate the first time people
    are touching each other. This persistence beyond logic has rewarded
    Turkey with an experience of co-existence and an accelerated democracy
    workshop. Despite all the provocation, it is important that this
    is protected and spread with a politic determination. Because it is
    clearer now that where the prime minister stands is not a point that
    could be explained within logic.

    Pınar Ogunc is a columnist for daily Radikal in which this piece
    was published on June 7. It was translated into English by the Daily
    News staff.

    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/is-this-a-pkk-flag-kidsno-auntie-it-is-lgbt.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48428&NewsCatID=396



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