Child murders are political!

The lifeless body of 8-year-old Narin Güran, who went missing in Diyarbakır on August 21, was found 19 days later inside a sack, nearly decomposed, in the bed of the Eğertutmaz Stream near the Tavşantepe neighborhood.

All of Turkey was waiting with bated breath for the  outcome of the search operations.

News channels had been closely following the developments from the very first day.

Public pressure had also built up on social media for Narin to be found as soon as possible.

But the good news did not come.

Our sweet little girl had been brutally murdered.

Who wanted to get rid of Narin's tiny body and why, who was involved in this savage murder, who was behind it, why were the villagers so afraid and silent, and had politics intervened to cover up the incident?

We do not know the answers for now.

But this is not just a judicial case.

It should not be viewed as such!

Underlying the issue is a male-dominated society, a feudal and diseased cultural structure, and a conservative religious mentality that feeds on and is fueled by the identity politics stoked by imperialism.

It is as clear and simple as that!

Even if fake leftists, soft-brained liberals, globalist sycophants, ethnicists, and sectarians try to romanticize this medieval remnant of a system with nonsensical phrases like 'traditions, local culture, customs,' the truth is as clear as day.

Unless the feudal order in these lands, dominated by sheikhs, religious leaders, and landlords, is broken or dismantled one way or another, the murders of children like Narin will not come to an end!

However, breaking this is not very easy.

Because the political Islamist mentality that governs the country stays in power precisely thanks to this order.

Let's not go too far; AKP Diyarbakır Deputy Galip Ensarioğlu came out a few days ago and said:

“There are things we sometimes don't know, and sometimes things we know but shouldn't say. Because the family are also our friends. The subject is very sensitive. We don't want to say anything that would upset them too much.”

His statements are significant in terms of showing how politics is involved in the matter.

And that is not all, of course!

For instance, the government has not been disclosing judicial statistical data regarding missing children in Turkey for 8 years.

They do not want the public to know these.

According to 2016 data from TUIK, the number of children in Turkey for whom an official missing person report was filed after 2008 and who were subsequently found by security units or citizens was 104,531.

The figures are horrifying.

Based on this, an average of 35 children went missing every day during that period.

Let's assume that some of these children were found later.

But for some reason, the government is not inclined to disclose the number of children found. For reasons unknown, it is imposing a blackout on such a sensitive issue.

In short, with Narin, we have understood once again that Turkey does not protect its children, and cannot protect them.

Yet, Turkey became a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1989, on October 14, 1990, and this convention entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette on January 27, 1995.

The convention imposed an obligation on governments to enact laws and take social measures to protect every individual under the age of 18 from violence and abuse.

It all remained on paper.

In particular, after the political Islamists took control in 2002, incidents of violence, harassment, and rape against women and children have increased exponentially.

It is clear that our children can no longer be protected by these and similar regulations.

The paradigm must change, and the country must completely rid itself of the Middle Eastern mental quagmire, the medieval-remnant mindset, and the social order that this has created.

Unfortunately, it does not seem very possible for the paradigm to change in the near future.

As long as we do not establish a rational "child policy" to ensure the safety of our children and stop child murders and violence against children, we will continue to experience these tragedies.

It is already common knowledge that the government has no such intention!

It is precisely for this reason that we conclude our article by stating that all child murders occurring in the country are political.