19 March 2010 / ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU YENİ ŞAFAK,
A few days ago, a historian on a program hosted by Murat Bardakçı on Haber Türk had the temerity to say, “Should we not have killed them and nourished them instead?” in response to Pelin Batu, who said: “Turkish or Armenian, it doesn’t matter.
Let us grieve together.” As Leyla İpekçi would say, it was the moment humanity plunged to the depths. It was a moment of darkness. The audacity, arrogance and rudeness are just unbelievable. To be able to think this way when talking about pain and tragedy is an issue of conscience. To be able to express this represents a serious moral problem. A more serious situation would be the following: When the political world and its mentality work to gratify each other’s egos, the result exceeds all limits of conscience and morals, besieges the political and social sphere and automatically becomes a legitimate expression of a totalitarian stance. History is filled with such examples.
