I am aware that it is wrong to generalize, but "We have become alienated from 'loyalty' with many of our people." Would you object if I said so?
Butcher Abdullah, Ice Cream Man Mehmet, İsmail, Lütfi Bey, Ahmet Saffet, Mehmet Muzaffer, İbrahim Naci and many more have long been forgotten by the "generations that came after them".
We cannot be considered passionate about our own history and national values.
So many valuable people, so many important issues do not occupy us for more than three or five days.
We still cannot even recite our Independence March "in a way befitting its position".
The bottom line is this: Our people are alienated from the characteristics we boast about.
We cannot remain silent now.
While our children have been alienated from the characteristics of virtue, we cannot let whatever is right, beautiful, good, and rot in the darkness without saying or writing it in our seeds.
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