A country where the wicked do not lose cannot teach morality to its children!

At Karşıyaka Cemetery yesterday, a father laid his two sons and two grandsons to rest with his own hands. That deep sorrow on his face will not leave my mind. The one-day national mourning declared by the government still feels, in the public conscience, as it did on the first day, seven days later...

We are angry. In our country, where structural negligence has turned into chronic violence, we demand that those responsible be held accountable in the harshest way possible!

At Karşıyaka Cemetery, a father could barely stand as he bid farewell to his two sons, whom he had raised just like himself, and his grandsons.

Murat Tokcan is a tourism professional who brought the İçmeler region of Marmaris into the tourism sector in the 1980s and is deeply loved and respected by the local people. His two sons were two successful individuals who had made a name for themselves in the industry with their innovative perspectives and work in Turkey's energy sector.

41-year-old Can Tokcan had managed many projects in the US on energy storage and industrial innovation, and was the president of EDEDER (Energy Storage Industries Association) in Turkey.

Can Tokcan, the CEO of Inovat Energy Storage Solutions Company, had his brother, Atıl Enis Tokcan, working as a sales manager at the same company.

During the semester break, the two brothers left their mother at home and went on a ski trip to the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya as a father and sons group. Can Tokcan's son, Kemal, was 9, and Atıl Enes Tokcan's son, Atlas Kaan, was 6 years old.

Our national mourning in our conscience will not end until those responsible are punished! Negligence that is plain to see is murder. Unless penalties reach the highest levels of the chain of responsibility that caused the loss of 78 lives, our anger will not subside.

"Human dignity is not about what happens to you, but how you take a stance against something that happens to someone else," says İoanna Kuçuradi.

Unfortunately, every social tragedy we experience shows us day by day how we are decaying as a society.

To those who took advantage of the fire disaster to demand 100 thousand TL from grieving families to transport the bodies: to whom did you sell your honor?

Did we not witness the same corruption in the February 6 earthquakes? While people who managed to save their lives from the earthquake were migrating to other cities, did many moving companies not demand prices 5-10 times the standard rate from earthquake victims? Did landlords not demand exorbitant rents from those fleeing the earthquake?

Today we learn that after the fire disaster in Bolu, the price of fire extinguishers has almost tripled.

Whenever there is a disaster, opportunism is born from it. Honor, conscience, dignity, and morality! Are these values not the building blocks of a society?

We are at the peak of social decay.

Morality is a set of rules whose subject is the human being and which regulates relationships between people according to values. For this reason, the State attaches great importance to the human being and the values they possess. State morality aims to keep people alive and elevate them. Yet, in Turkey today, human life is the most worthless thing!

In every disaster, the fact that those in positions of responsibility cling tightly to their seats and the culture of impunity elevates heartlessness, immorality, and evil.

However, we must know this;

As sociologist Slavoj Zizek says,

"A country where the wicked do not lose cannot teach morality to its children."