But the ground we are stepping on is slippery, branches we are holding onto are breaking and sources we feed on are being depleted.The other day a young girl named Begüm died from an “overdose.” According to information that has reached the media, the 23-year-old girl started using heroine in high school. Her family says “her boyfriend made her addicted.” After graduating from an Anatolian high school in İstanbul she went to Kocaeli University and from there she went to the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Therapy and Educational Center (AMATEM) for drug treatment for one year. Now Begüm -- the girl whose mother says “they would always meet up” and who locked herself in the bathroom at a “friends house” to shoot up -- is no longer with us. It is a devastating end.
On Monday, newspapers reported the death of a 19-year-old girl in Burdur. The young girl named Reyhan was found dead naked at her “friend's house.” Police suspect the girl died from an overdose. We have a 19-year-old girl that has died from an overdose and eight of her friends in custody. For heaven's sake, where are we headed?
We have become so consumed by futile daily debates that we have become indifferent to the disaster banging on our door. Does it suit this country to sing and dance along as we tumble into one of the deepest pits of social depression? On top of all this, these terrible incidents have occurred during Ramadan, “the sultan of eleven months.” They are happening in a country where bars do not operate during this month as a courtesy to the holy month of Ramadan.
Münevver Karabulut's head was barbarously severed. The murderer is a member of one the richest families in Turkey. The issue appears to be a more savage situation than a “socialite murder” fantasy. However, the media is reporting how Karabulut's father wants 3 million euros from the suspect's family. As more people talk about this, the more people get used to it and the more the incidents become ordinary.
But what we need to be discussing is the “friendship” that led to Karabulut's death, the family that allowed, in fact, encouraged this “relationship,” the young man who despite having access to so much wealth became a murder and a criminal as a result of an unfulfilling search, and most importantly, social insanity and the dark pits of this insanity.
There isn't a day that passes where there isn't another sad story.
D.Ö, a college student, fell from the balcony of her apartment on the fifth floor and died. There were reports that the girl, who was a fourth-year student at Ege University, lost her balance because of “consuming too much alcohol.” The media reported the story as “the fatal end of the free girl.” Last month the grief-stricken father of the young girl spoke to Zaman daily and said, “I am responsible for Duygu's death.” Alas!
Similar events are happening more frequently in Turkey. Başak Aydıntuğ was only 21 years old and studying law at Bilkent University when she brutally killed her professor mother. Now she faces life in prison. Aydıntuğ had everything she wanted but she was unhappy. She went from one depression into another just like an unpredictable number of thousands of teens. People are becoming lonelier. Respect, love, compassion and kindness are being replaced by other emotions. As the depth and wealth inside us disappears, so does our happiness. We escape the metaphysical dimension of human reality because of frivolous symbolic debates. Those who applaud every nonreligious method don't have any other alternatives to suggest to fill that grim emptiness. That is because they can't. As we ramble on about actuality we forget about our real issues. Why should future generations have to experience the terrible trauma which the West has experienced severely? Why should we detach ourselves from value judgments that bring us together, such as friendship, kinship and neighborliness?
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