This was the picture I uploaded after the attacks in Ankara on the 13. of March, where 37 people died. After that, on the streets of my home city İstanbul, which I walk on, make my pictures, work, eat, live, love, a suicide bomber took 4 lives with him injured over 30 people
And now today, it was in Brussels.
It is disgusting. It is a terrifying world, in which my son will have to live in.
If tragedy strikes, we humans show our best and most compassionate side. This time, like before in New York, Madrid, London, Paris and other countless times and places, people died, not knowing why, in a senseless and mindless crime. There can be no excuses for killing. There can be no sympathy for the cause or belief.
" I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction."
that was what Shylock has said, take Jew and Christian replace it with any two belief, religion, dogma, nation, race...
I hope we all are a bit Ankara, as we were New York, Paris and Madrid.
