Punishing killers and protecting killers

You know the incident; a very young female police officer, Şeyda Yılmaz, became the victim of a crime machine. She had many long years ahead of her, she had a happy marriage, she had big dreams, she was going to have children, she was going to be a mother to her child and raise them, she was going to rise in her career, and so much more...

All of this ended when a crime machine pulled the trigger.

This tragic end saddened everyone.

Everyone was outraged at how someone with 26 prior criminal records could be free and then martyr a young police officer.

We watch it in American movies; when it comes to a cop killer, in every scenario, they calculate how to corner that killer and kill them, and when they truly corner them, they do kill them.

In Turkey, Şeyda Yılmaz's colleagues acted with frustration; after catching the killer, they stripped him, put a trash bag over him, and delivered him to justice by transporting him in an animal transport vehicle, as if he were a diseased animal.

While this may soothe the fire in the hearts burning from the death of the young police officer, it is not a practice that will yield results.

Furthermore, it is contrary to both the law and human rights rules.

That is why it received a lot of backlash.

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But remember this:

Unfortunately, in this country, there is a tendency to categorize killers and group them as 'Our killer' or 'Their killer'.

A former prime minister of this country appeared on television and, looking us in the eye, said, "You cannot make me say that nationalists kill people."

Another prime minister of this country defended killers again by saying, "Those who fire bullets for this country and those who take them are both honorable."

Just this month, we saw that Narin, a tiny 8-year-old girl, was monstrously murdered, and that a whole village, young and old, resisted tooth and nail with political support to protect her killer.

In the past, we have faced the reality that crime machines lived among us for years under the legal armor of the state.

It is even on record that a journalist was killed in Cyprus under the privilege of a uniform, not just in Turkey.

Even those who killed people in broad daylight in the capital were sought to be saved.

We are now witnessing that those who protect killers or order murders are as rich as Croesus, traveling in convoys of ten American SUVs with dozens of bodyguards; there are still those who live like that.

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Be sure that if someone with 26 criminal records finds the courage to commit the baseness of killing a police officer, the reason is the very atmosphere we have listed here.

Those who see the prosperity of people with crimes greater than their own take courage from this.

Those who see that the crimes of those who commit and commission murders go unpunished see this as an incentive.

The thing to do is to change this atmosphere and make those who commit crimes pay for it, even if they are the greatest scholars of the world.

If you impose a fine on anyone who throws a cigarette butt from their vehicle onto the street, no one will throw one again.

If you punish those who evade taxes, commit irregularities, take bribes, get rich through corruption, or sell drugs, and if the price is heavy, no one will attempt to do so.

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By treating a killer as they deserve, you might soothe your anger for that day, but if you do not fix the environment that creates the killer, you cannot prevent new murders.

Therefore, the rule should be as it is written in the laws:

Whoever commits a crime will be punished, those who defend the perpetrator will also be considered guilty, a crime is a crime, and who the perpetrator is does not change the crime.

Only then will the country be cleansed of crime.