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		<title>BE A ‘WOMAN’. NEVER BE AS IF A WOMAN… &#8211; KADIN OL. ASLA KADINMIŞ GİBİ YAPMA&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meltem Arikan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>“I’d have loved to start with my dear daddy but my hand’s unwilling to write this now. I don’t know if there’ll come a&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“I’d have loved to start with <em>my dear daddy </em> but my hand’s unwilling to write this now. I don’t know if there’ll come a day when I’ll say <em>my dear daddy</em>. Actually, I don’t even know if I want that day to come. One day, to become a father and a daughter…</p>
<p>Dad, why didn’t you ever tell me life how hard life is?</p>
<p>You didn’t say “<em>you should protect yourself even from me, my daughter”</em>.</p>
<p>Now I know I cannot ask you “<em>why me” </em>but still the question is there.</p>
<p>Didn’t you ever think of me? Didn’t you ever feel sorry for leaving me without a father?</p>
<p>Tell me dad, how did you love me? I would have loved to call you daddy, but it is so hard now.</p>
<p>Dad, why didn’t you tell me “<em>you could be happy simply by being yourself?”</em></p>
<p>You put me under a bell jar full of needles. You stopped me from understanding what was good and what was evil. You never said “<em>know what is true so you can climb the stairs safely.,”</em></p>
<p>And what about you, my darling? Instead of loving me more as I became myself, why were you so scared of me? Why did you decide that our relationship should not continue?</p>
<p>Maybe you never felt as romantic as you claimed. There’s still no reason for it to be over. “<em>We consumed it.” </em>Well, what was it we consumed? The years spent with a <em>me </em>that wasn’t me? My love, don’t think of me as that <em>not-me</em> anymore. Talk to me. I can carry your fears as well.</p>
<p>What is your trauma, I wonder, my darling? Why do you prefer to love me, not as a woman, but as a little girl?<br />
I am leaving you all too soon and I am feeling good for the first time. Am I deceiving myself? Could I really start to smile at everything now? Could I have grown up this much? Why will I devote myself to my job now and what will it prove? Nothing? Or that I am free?</p>
<p>Be sure of the way and start to walk, little girl. Calm and tender. Be a ‘woman’. <em>Never be as if a woman… </em></p>
<p>Let your eyes smile. Define love within your own reality. Do everything for yourself. Live for yourself. Touch for yourself. Take pleasure for yourself. For yourself. Yourself…”</p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ba­ba­cı­ğım, di­ye baş­la­ma­yı çok is­ter­dim, ama elim git­mi­yor şu an­da. Ba­ba­cı­ğım di­ye­ce­ğim bir gün ge­le­cek mi bil­mi­yo­rum, as­lın­da gel­me­si­ni is­ti­yor mu­yum onu bi­le bi­le­mi­yo­rum. Bir gün ba­ba-kız ol­mak&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ba­ba, ne­den ba­na ya­şa­mın bu ka­dar zor ol­du­ğu­nu hiç söy­le­me­din?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ken­di­ni ben­den bi­le ko­ru­ma­sı­nı bil kı­zım,” de­me­din.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">“Ne­den ben,” di­ye so­ra­ma­ya­ca­ğı­nı ar­tık bi­li­yo­rum, ama yi­ne de sor­ma­dan ede­mi­yo­rum.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Hiç mi be­ni dü­şün­me­din? Be­ni ba­ba­sız bı­ra­kır­ken, hiç mi üzül­me­din? An­lat­sa­na ba­ba, sen be­ni na­sıl sev­din? Sa­na ba­ba­cı­ğım de­me­yi çok is­ter­dim, ama öy­le­si­ne zor ki ar­tık.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ba­ba ne­den ba­na “Sen, sen ola­bil­di­ğin sü­re­ce mut­lu ola­bi­lir­sin,” de­me­din? Be­ni bir fa­nu­sa koy­dun, içi iğ­ne­ler­le do­luy­du. İyi­le­ri-kö­tü­le­ri an­la­ma­ma en­gel ol­dun. “Ger­çek­le­ri bil ki, mer­di­ven­le­ri da­ha sağ­lam çı­ka­sın,” de­me­din.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ya sen sev­gi­lim? Ben ken­dim ol­duk­ça be­ni da­ha çok se­ve­ce­ğin yer­de, ne­den kork­tun ki ben­den, be­nim­le iliş­ki­nin yü­rü­me­ye­ce­ği­ne na­sıl ka­rar ver­din?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Bel­ki de, as­lın­da hiç­bir za­man söy­le­di­ğin gi­bi ro­man­tik de­ğil­din. Öy­le­si­ne “Bit­ti,” di­yor­sun. “Tü­ket­tik,” pe­ki ne­yi? Ol­ma­yan ben­le ge­çen yıl­la­rı mı? Sev­gi­lim ar­tık be­ni dü­şün­me ve be­nim­le ko­nuş­ma­ma­ya de­vam et. Ben se­nin kor­ku­la­rı­nı da ta­şı­ya­bi­li­rim.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Se­nin trav­man ne aca­ba sev­gi­lim?.. Be­ni, ka­dın ola­rak de­ğil de kü­çük bir kız ola­rak sev­me­yi ni­ye ter­cih edi­yor­sun?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">En kı­sa za­man­da siz­le­ri terk edi­yo­rum ve ilk de­fa ken­di­mi iyi his­se­di­yo­rum. Aca­ba ken­di­mi kan­dı­rı­yor mu­yum? Da­ha şim­di­den her şe­ye gü­lüm­se­ye­bi­lir mi­yim? Bu ka­dar bü­yü­müş ola­bi­lir mi­yim? Şim­di ken­di­mi işi­me ver­mem, ne­yi ka­nıt­la­mak için ola­cak pe­ki? Hiç­bir şe­yi ? Öz­gür­leş­mek için mi?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Ha­re­ket ede­bi­le­ce­ğin alan­la­rı be­lir­le­yip, yü­rü­me­ye baş­la kü­çük kız. Sa­kin ve yu­mu­şak. “Ka­dın” ol. As­la ka­dın­mış gi­bi yap­ma&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Göz­le­ri­nin gü­lüm­se­me­si­ne izin ver. Sev­me­yi ken­di ger­çek­li­ğin için­de ta­rif­le. Her şe­yi ken­din için yap. Ken­din için ya­şa. Ken­din için do­kun. Ken­din için zevk al. Ken­din için. Ken­din&#8230;</span></p>
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		<title>SAD WOMAN&#8230; &#8211; ÜZGÜN KADIN&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meltem Arikan</dc:creator>
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		<title>FATHER I HATE YOU&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>YOUR SWEARWORDS&#8230; KÜFÜRLERİNİZ&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meltem Arikan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>Did you ever think that sexual organs might be getting a raw deal, due to wrong conditionings, general misperceptions and pressures? For example the&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever think that sexual organs might be getting a raw deal, due to wrong conditionings, general misperceptions and pressures? For example the swearwords that you all, women and men, keep hurling about, without giving a single thought or realize what it might cost… Your swearwords that you put your sexual organs carelessly in use…</p>
<p>Primarily, it is inevitable to understand the formation of swearwords, in order to understand the formation of the language of sexuality. If I were to ask my male readers, “Is making love a good action,” the answer  would naturally be “Yes, of course.” Then, how come the words and organs that you use in this good action, could come out of your mouth- without even considering- when you hate someone or when you get furious? You might well say, “Those are not the same,” but you do realize that you use the same words when you’re swearing as well as when you’re in bed, and it is not only the other party, but also you hear these words in both situations. This is quite contradictory, don’t you think?</p>
<p>For thousands of years, the male dominant culture has placed restraints upon women in order to maintain his own rulership. When it wasn’t enough, they’ve penalized women. When it wasn’t enough, they’ve burnt women with accusations of witchcraft, and have stoned them with accusations of immorality. And today, they’ve imposed swearwords to everyday language, which is inevitably connected to sexuality, as means of violence and armament. Sadly, women haven’t only accepted this armament that has been inserted in between their bodies and sexuality, but they’ve also got used to it.</p>
<p>Whilst swearwords designate the hegemony of the men on the street, the intensity of the swearwords designates the degree of the violence of this hegemony. When a man wants to have domination over another man, he uses the another man&#8217;s body of his mother or sister as the material of his swearwords. Whenever a man swears at a woman, he actually defiles her body and sexuality. And when a woman swears at a man, this time she actually alienates herself from her body by imitating the male dominant hegemony. Be sure that how much a man swears shows the degree of his problems of being a man and how much a woman swears shows how much she hates her womanhood.</p>
<p>In order sex to be experienced in a natural way, change within the language is inevitable. For this reason, especially the women must make all the swearwords natural within the woman language, which have been used as armaments. This is a vital step in order to prevent women from being alienated from their sexuality and their bodies.</p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Sizce, yanlış şartlanmaların, algılamaların ve baskıların sonucunda cinsel organlar haksızlığa uğruyor olabilir mi? Örneğin kadın-erkek, neye mal olduğunun farkına varmadan, hiç düşünmeden savurduğunuz küfürler… Cinsel organlarınızı pervasızca malzeme ettiğiniz küfürleriniz…</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Cinselliğin dilinin oluşumunu anlamak için öncelikle küfrün oluşumunu anlamak kaçınılmazdır. Erkek okurlarıma, “Sevişmek sizler için güzel bir eylem mi?” diye sorsam gelecek yanıt doğal olarak, “Evet, tabii” olacaktır. Peki, o zaman bu güzel eylemde kullanılan organlar ve sözcükler, birinden nefret edildiğinde, öfkelenildiği zaman hiç düşünmeden nasıl ağızlardan çıkabiliyor? “İkisi aynı şey değil ki!” diyebilirsiniz ancak bu sözleri hem cinselliğinizi yaşarken hem de küfür ederken söylediğinizin farkındasınız ve söylerken de yalnızca karşı taraf değil, sizler de duymaktasınız. Peki, sizce bu çelişki yaratmıyor mu?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Erkek egemen kültür binlerce yıldır iktidarını elde tutmak için kadınlara yasaklar koymuştur. Yetmeyince kadınları cezalandırmıştır. Yetmeyince cadı diyerek yakmış, namussuz diye taşlamıştır. Günümüzde ise cinselliğin oluşumundan bağımsız meydana gelemeyen dile, şiddeti ve silahı küfür olarak koymuşlardır. Ne yazık ki kadınlar da bedenleriyle cinsellikleri arasına sokulan bu silahı zorla kabullenir olmuş, hatta kanıksamışlardır.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Küfür aslında erkeklerin sokaktaki egemenliğini belirlerken, küfrün şiddeti de egemenliğin şiddetini belirler. Bir erkek başka bir erkek üzerinde egemenlik kurmak istediğinde, onun anasının veya kardeşinin bedenini küfür malzemesi olarak kullanır. Bir erkek, bir kadına küfrettiği zaman aslında o kadının bedenini ve cinselliğini kirletir. Bir kadın bir erkeğe küfrettiği zaman aslında erkek egemenliğine özenerek bedenine yabancılaşır. Bir erkek ne kadar çok küfür ediyorsa bilin ki o kadar çok erkeklik sorunu vardır, bir kadın ne kadar çok küfür ediyorsa bilin ki kadınlığından o kadar çok nefret ediyordur.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Cinselliğin doğal olarak yaşanabilmesi için dilin değişimi kaçınılmazdır. Bu nedenle de özellikle kadınlar küfürlerde silah olarak kullanılan sözcükleri kadın dili içinde doğallaştırmak zorundadır. Kadınların cinselliklerine ve bedenlerine yabancılaşmasını engellemek adına bu çok önemli bir adımdır.</span></p>
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		<title>ENOUGH!.. STOP VERBAL ABUSE&#8230;</title>
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		<title>HBC // MTV AGAINST VERBAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>THIS IS MY PERSONAL MAELSTROM!.. &#8211; BU BENİM GİRDABIM!..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>‘Fat girl&#8230; Ugly girl&#8230;’ I’m confused. I’m bending over backwards to be appreciated. I’m making up stories so as to get noticed, when that&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>‘Fat girl&#8230; Ugly girl&#8230;’ I’m confused. I’m bending over backwards to be appreciated. I’m making up stories so as to get noticed, when that doesn’t suffice, I fabricate lies, when that doesn’t suffice, I slash my wrists with a razor, when that doesn’t suffice, I’m vomiting, when that doesn’t suffice, I’m becoming bulimic, when that doesn’t suffice, I’m suffering three nervous breakdowns a week and get rushed to the hospital, when that doesn’t suffice&#8230; This is my personal maelstrom. When that doesn’t suffice&#8230;</p>
<p>The more I harm myself, the more I catch attention. I’m learning… The more I cause trouble, the more I arouse interest. I’m learning… I love myself in the eyes of others. I’m learning. Learning that as long as I carry on in this manner, I will be loved… Yet, I do not know of the difference between love and pity. I do not love myself, but I am constantly putting on my act so that others will love me.</p>
<p>I do not like myself, but I constantly vomit, so that others will like me. So long as others like me… This is my personal maelstrom, when that doesn’t suffice, thinner, prettier, more attractive, more, more… If there is no room for more, then destruction. I’m learning, if destruction is due, then even more… This is my personal maelstrom. I am my own maelstrom…</p>
<p>Şişman kız. Çirkin kız. Kafam karışık. Beğenilmek için çırpınıyorum. Fark edilmek adına hikayeler uyduruyorum, yetmeyince yalanlar üretiyorum, yetmeyince bileklerimi jiletliyorum, yetmeyince kusuyorum, yetmeyince blumik oluyorum, yetmeyince haftada üç kez sinir krizi geçirip hastaneye yatıyorum, yetmeyince… Bu benim girdabım. Yetmeyince…</p>
<p>Kendime ne kadar zarar verirsem o kadar dikkat çekerim. Öğreniyorum. Sorun çıkardıkça ilgi görürüm. Öğreniyorum. Başkalarının gözlerinde kendimi severim. Öğreniyorum, bu şekilde devam ettikçe seviliyorum. Sevgiyle acıma arasındaki farkı bilmiyorum.</p>
<p>Kendimi sevmiyorum ama başkaları beni sevsin diye sürekli oynuyorum. Kendimi beğenmiyorum ama başkaları beğensin diye sürekli kusuyorum. Başkaları beğendikçe… Bu benim girdabım, yetmeyince  daha ince, daha güzel, daha dikkat çekici, daha&#8230; daha… Daha çok olmuyorsa, yıkım. Öğreniyorum, yıkım yapılacaksa daha çok… Bu benim girdabım. Ben kendi kendimin girdabıyım…</p>
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		<title>BULIMIA CAN DESTROY YOU!..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BULIMIA (Awareness video)</title>
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		<title>THE COST OF RUNNING AWAY FROM PAINS&#8230; &#8211; ACILARDAN KAÇMANIN BEDELİ&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://www.meltemarikan.com/category/uncategorized/" title="Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></p>Instead of facing our reality, and living in it, we create fake lives, and we constantly run away from our pains and fears. The&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instead of facing our reality, and living in it, we create fake lives, and we constantly run away from our pains and fears. The Pandora’s Box, in which we carry round our past, we keep as securely locked as we can, believing that we have destroyed the nightmares inside. Instead, we’ve let them direct us.<br />
By running away from our pains, we’ve let them govern us and we make ourselves their servant. That’s why we’re afraid to fall in love, and why we can’t fall in love. We confuse delusions with real emotions because we’re terribly scared of facing the truth in the arms of a stranger, in the warmth of another’s body.<br />
We are covered in scabs from the cuts from the dagger. While we try to veil them, to keep them from view, nothing is resolved, and yet we act as if we’ve overcome everything. We hate nakedness. If someone starts to caress those scabs, we know they’ll bleed again, so we don’t let anyone caress us.<br />
Because if we surrender to someone, if we start to speak out, we know that our Pandora’s Box will spring open…<br />
Isn’t all our play-acting, our hypocritical masquerading, our make-believe that we exist, our judgements, and our pitifulness because of this? Is it because we’re afraid of surrendering to someone?<br />
We’re doomed to drown. Because wounds that don’t heal won’t form scabs. They seem to, but they bleed inwardly and poison us from inside. We believe we’re living when what we’re doing is disappearing into the nightmares of the past. But we’re not aware of this. Those who revere and uphold values such as the family, morality, love and society are indeed afraid of discovering the putrefied body beneath all this sanctity.<br />
In fact morality has been created as a cover for immorality. People are phony, people are cruel, people are fearful. And we are not the children of our parents but their children of fears. The children of fears and destroyed lives…</p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Biz­ler, ger­çek­le­ri­mi­zi ya­şa­yıp on­lar­la yüz­leş­mek ye­ri­ne, sah­te ha­yat­lar ya­ra­tıp acı­la­rı­mız­dan ve kor­ku­la­rı­mız­dan da­ima ka­çı­yo­ruz. Geç­mi­şi­miz­den bu­gün­le­re ta­şı­dı­ğı­mız Pan­do­ra ku­tu­la­rı­nı sı­kı sı­kı ki­lit­le­yip, için­de­ki ka­ra­ba­san­la­rı yok et­ti­ği­mi­zi sa­nır­ken, as­lın­da on­la­rın bi­zi yö­net­me­si­ne ça­nak tu­tu­yo­ruz.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">Acı­la­rı­mız­dan ka­çar­ken on­la­rın efen­di, bi­zim kö­le ol­ma­mı­zı da ka­bul et­miş olu­yo­ruz. O ne­den­le de âşık ol­mak­tan kor­ku­yo­ruz, âşık ola­mı­yo­ruz, san­rı­la­rı ger­çek duy­gu­lar­la ka­rış­tı­rı­yo­ruz. Çün­kü bir ya­ban­cı­nın kol­la­rın­da, be­de­ni­nin sı­cak­lı­ğın­da ger­çek­ler­le yüz­leş­mek­ten de­li gi­bi kor­ku­yo­ruz.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">Her ya­nı­mız ka­pan­mış, ka­buk bağ­la­mış, han­çer iz­le­riy­le do­luy­ken, biz­ler on­la­rın üze­ri­ni ört­tük­çe ör­tüp, hiç­bir şe­yi çö­ze­me­miş­ken; üs­te­sin­den gel­miş gi­bi yap­tı­ğı­mız için de çıp­lak­lık­tan nef­ret edi­yo­ruz&#8230; Ama, bi­ri ka­buk tut­muş ya­ra­la­rı ok­şa­ma­ya baş­lar­sa, ka­na­ma­la­rın baş­la­ya­ca­ğı­nı bil­di­ği­miz için de, kim­se­nin bi­zi ok­şa­ma­sı­na izin ver­mi­yo­ruz&#8230;</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">Çün­kü bi­ri­ne tes­lim olur­sak, an­lat­ma­ya baş­lar­sak, Pan­do­ra’­nın ku­tu­su­nun da açı­la­ca­ğı­nı bi­li­yo­ruz&#8230;</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">O yüz­den de­ğil mi tüm sah­te­kar­lık­la­rı­mız, var ol­muş gi­bi yap­ma­la­rı­mız, yar­gı­la­rı­mız ve za­val­lı­lık­la­rı­mız? Bi­ri­ne tes­lim ol­mak­tan kork­ma­mız?.. ”</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">Bo­ğul­ma­ya mah­ku­muz. Çün­kü iyi­leş­me­yen ya­ra­lar ka­buk bağ­la­maz, ka­buk bağ­la­mış gi­bi gö­zük­se­ler bi­le iç­ten içe ka­na­ma­ya ve bi­zi ze­hir­le­me­ye de­vam eder­ler. Ya­şa­dı­ğı­mı­zı sa­nır­ken, as­lın­da geç­mi­şin ka­bus­la­rın­da yok olu­ruz. Ama, bu­nu fark bi­le ede­me­yiz. Ai­le, ah­lâk, sev­gi, top­lum gi­bi de­ğer­le­ri kut­sa­yan­lar as­lın­da bu kut­sal­lı­ğın al­tın­da­ki leş­le­rin bu­lun­ma­sın­dan kor­kar­lar.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">Ah­lâk, as­lın­da ah­lâk­sız­lı­ğın kı­lı­fı ya­pıl­mış­tır. İn­san­lar sah­te­kâr, in­san­lar acı­ma­sız, in­san­lar kor­kak. Ve biz­ler an­ne-ba­ba­la­rı­mı­zın de­ğil, kor­ku­la­rın ço­cuk­la­rı­yız. Kor­ku­la­rın ve yok edil­miş ya­şam­la­rın ço­cuk­la­rı&#8230;</span></p>
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