It seems some people are craving a new ‘Gezi’!

In my life, I have never knowingly or willingly killed even an ant. When I see a spider in the house, I pick it up and put it outside. Until ten or fifteen years ago, the only living creature I killed was a fly; now, I chase them out of the house as well.

That is why I have spent many nights awake!

With things as they are, some people are preparing to slaughter my “Zeytin” and her friends.

A kind of genocide, that is!

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Who is Zeytin, you ask?

A stray dog that was born into my hands exactly one year ago… I gave her this name because she was born in an olive grove and her pupils are pitch black… 

I also named her mother: Kantaron… 

The color of her fur leans toward yellow; that is why she has this name! 

In the region where I live, all the dogs are named Zeytin, Zeus, Asos, or Troya anyway! 

I have also come across a few named Herodotus around Adatepe… According to the historians who lived in these parts… 

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For exactly one year, I have been walking four kilometers round-trip every evening to feed Zeytin and Kantaron. 

Although, thank goodness, the people living in the surrounding houses also give them their food scraps, but how can they keep up with all the hungry living creatures?

That is why I declared myself the “food father” of Zeytin and Kantaron. They know I am coming from 200-300 meters away. 

And at that moment, I cannot describe what kind of celebration, what kind of festival begins…

Her mother is a bit smaller and more ladylike, but Zeytin, who is only one year old, reaches my chest height when she stands on her hind legs… 

Every evening, the centuries-old olive trees witness a “dog-human” dance!

We hug and embrace for at least five minutes; we sniff each other; we literally dance.

Zeytin lets go, and this time her mother jumps on me…

I am covered in dust and dirt; but… Who cares?  

I have received much love, I have experienced many heartfelt embraces. This is truly something very different, my friends!

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Now they are saying on the television news that the AKP is making preparations… They are going to put my Zeytin, my Kantaron, the Zeuses, the Troyas, the Asoses, the Herodotuses, and the Ladys to sleep…

So that anger does not grow, they do not say “We will kill,” they say “We will put to sleep”…

What is their justification?

That stray dogs are attacking children and women and sending them to the hospital!

That is why they are going to wipe out an entire “living species”… 

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You know me; I come from the “language lineage” of Can Yücel. 

That is why I call a spade a spade!

And I call a murderer a killer!

Let us say that what these “ass-headed killers” are saying is true!

Let us say that some dogs living on the streets, who are targets of stone and stick attacks by people, have committed a “crime” and may have hurt some people.

But aren't the ones who hurt people the most still humans?

Well then; would you ever think of wiping out all of humanity just because someone came and slapped you or injured you?

When you attempt to voice such a thought, would you be labeled a “psychopath” or not?

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So; what do you do?

You go and file a lawsuit… You seek your rights in court.

When a dog attacks you, you complain to the municipality and ensure it is taken to a shelter with humane conditions…

But you do not say, “Let us wipe out their lineage”…

You do not try to issue a “death warrant” for our Zeytin, our Kantaron, our Herodotus, our Asos, or our Lady, who do not harm anyone and, on the contrary, ensure our safety…

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What is it; they are going to give these creatures one month…

And if they are not adopted within a month…

They will put them to sleep…

Fine; let me adopt Kantaron and Zeytin then…

But you, as the state, give me a house where I can look after Zeytin and Kantaron…

How can I live in a sixty-square-meter apartment with two creatures nearly my size; they are not fancy house lapdogs!

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As I said… I am not a killer. I do not, and cannot, knowingly or willingly harm any living creature.

Not even killers…

That is why I am not saying, “Whoever attempts to kill my Zeytin and my Kantaron, their death will come by my hand.”

But I am saying, “I would gladly give my own life to ensure that Zeytin and all her kin are not killed!”

“I will fight to my last drop of blood against the ass-headed people who pass laws to kill them, against those with killer spirits, and against the pathetic municipal police, police, and gendarmerie they will use as pawns,” I say.

“If necessary, I will take to the streets again, just like in the Gezi Resistance that started ‘for a tree’,” I say.

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I swear I will do it, I truly will.

I will break the hands that reach for my Zeytin.

I will make the world a living hell for the person who harms Kantaron.

If they are willing to risk the anger of millions who think like me, then by all means, let them pass the law…

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And they call themselves “pious” too…

Pious my foot!

People have turned away from religion because of you…