Remember, when Özal came to power, we first accused Motherland Party, or ANAP, of 'those with wooden sandals having started an Islamization operation of the country.' Even further, when Özal applied for full membership in the EU, Çoskun Kırca a foremost actor of the secularist front who thought this was a game persistently pursued his theory 'We know we will be declined. But while doing this we have exaggerated. Of course, examples from the past, especially the Islamic revolution in Iran and the Erbakan term has stirred these doubts and worries. We perceived it as a mile stone in our lifestyle.

We perceived secularism totally different. We don’t even wait until the opposite is proven. We possess such deep doubts that we don’t trust anyone. Perspectives are so different that no dispute can be made without being followed by a fight.Įach step taken in the name of piousness is viewed as a game of those who want to bring sharia laws to Turkey. Let’s take a look at the secularist-pious fight.

The worst part of it is that as years pass we don’t even believe that people change on the contrary, we stir up these fears. We have created such fears and adapted to them we have become their victims. At least our generation did not manage to do it. We have not abandoned polarization, for, with various world views there is a huge gap between beliefs that is impossible to bridge. We were wounded by intolerance regarding a consensus in democracy and diversity. Some of us were on the left wing some on the right. We are not able to reach a consensus on these subjects. The great tension regarding the independence, European Union and Western camp É Who represents the state? The military or Parliament, which we elected? The Turkish-Kurdish dispute filled with a danger of civil war. The secularist-pious attitude that splits the society.

Kara Arşiv by Ali Yılmaz