He walked out angrily! "My country has done enough to protect its people and you are still complaining. You will never be satisfied" Bang! The door closed. Nobody spoke for a few seconds.
Then the activist took over. It is difficult for people to comprehend the pain of the minorities. The Kurds have been badly treated. There have been brutal killings. These guys won't know the pain of it all. The pain of being relegated. The pain of having 'No Voice'. The Pain of living in a place where you don't belong. There was silence again!
The man had a Kurdish flag in front of him! He spoke passionately about the injustice of arresting the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was the lone prisoner at the Island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara for many years. "There is a CIA hand in it. And unless this Kurdish movement does not succeed, this might lead to the third world war". His passion came through in his voice!
Then the professor took over. As soon as he started talking there was a calm! He spoke on the hows and whys of a revolution. He had the influence MSD had on the mad Indian cricket follower. The tension in the air subsided. People breathed easy.
What am I doing here? Don't I have any other work rather than listening to these political debates? Lots of reading to complete and there is the presentation to finish, said the inner me! Oh ya, 'Turkey' and the 'Kurdish' movement has nothing to do with my life, I told myself.
Then it hit me hard! Aren't these debates meant to happen at the universities? I mean, isn't it proper that the social scientists sit together and talk about the problems of the people. It is only right if the students during the university days listen to the happenings around the world, Ain't it?
Ah! My college days had it all wrong. We never spoke about the nation's problems, leave alone the world's problems. Yes, we spoke about manufacturing cars and lorries, but never once did we spoke about the politics of Industrialisation and the labour movement. The conversations on climate change were for the after college gasbags.
We have closed the doors for important issues on the college campuses and that is why we end up listening to them in the noisy NEWS rooms of the wheeler-dealers and the crony capitalists.
Of course, if the sound is coming from the wrong platform, it may not be the train you had to catch!
Then the activist took over. It is difficult for people to comprehend the pain of the minorities. The Kurds have been badly treated. There have been brutal killings. These guys won't know the pain of it all. The pain of being relegated. The pain of having 'No Voice'. The Pain of living in a place where you don't belong. There was silence again!
The man had a Kurdish flag in front of him! He spoke passionately about the injustice of arresting the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was the lone prisoner at the Island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara for many years. "There is a CIA hand in it. And unless this Kurdish movement does not succeed, this might lead to the third world war". His passion came through in his voice!
Then the professor took over. As soon as he started talking there was a calm! He spoke on the hows and whys of a revolution. He had the influence MSD had on the mad Indian cricket follower. The tension in the air subsided. People breathed easy.
What am I doing here? Don't I have any other work rather than listening to these political debates? Lots of reading to complete and there is the presentation to finish, said the inner me! Oh ya, 'Turkey' and the 'Kurdish' movement has nothing to do with my life, I told myself.
Then it hit me hard! Aren't these debates meant to happen at the universities? I mean, isn't it proper that the social scientists sit together and talk about the problems of the people. It is only right if the students during the university days listen to the happenings around the world, Ain't it?
Ah! My college days had it all wrong. We never spoke about the nation's problems, leave alone the world's problems. Yes, we spoke about manufacturing cars and lorries, but never once did we spoke about the politics of Industrialisation and the labour movement. The conversations on climate change were for the after college gasbags.
We have closed the doors for important issues on the college campuses and that is why we end up listening to them in the noisy NEWS rooms of the wheeler-dealers and the crony capitalists.
Of course, if the sound is coming from the wrong platform, it may not be the train you had to catch!
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