While Özgür Özel was saying, 'The CHP will continue its normalization strategy'…

While Özgür Özel was saying, “The CHP will continue its normalization strategy,”

Women's assemblies, non-governmental organizations, and especially the We Will Stop Femicide Platform set out for Diyarbakır to stand up for the case of 8-year-old Narin, who was brutally murdered by her family. 

While Özgür Özel was saying, “normalization will continue,” in October alone, one woman was killed by a man every single day. This past October went down in history as the month with the highest number of women killed since 2010. In October, 48 women lost their lives to what we call preventable deaths—femicide.

While Özgür Özel was saying, “we will continue with the normalization strategy,” Cengiz Holding began its destruction in the Kaz Mountains. A forest area the size of 19 football fields was sacrificed for a copper mine project. The cutting down of nearly 1 million trees is at stake for the Halilağa Copper Mine project. The massacre has already begun. First, the trees were marked with X's, and then the slaughter started. Despite the ongoing legal process, Cengiz Construction was not stopping. Hundreds of social media accounts were calling for resistance and to stop the massacre in the Kaz Mountains on Saturday, November 9. 

While Özgür Özel was saying, “normalization will continue,” a retired teacher was rebelling in the middle of the street; 

“I am dying of hunger, I bought bread from the 'suspended bread' rack, I couldn't pay the rent. I am already dying, let them throw me in jail if they want,” they shouted.

While Özgür Özel was saying, “continue with the normalization strategy,” it was discovered that stray animals were being strangled to death in Gebze.

While Özgür Özel was saying, “continue with normalization,” the Boğaziçi University resistance was completing its 4th year. Boğaziçi faculty members had taken their places in the garden for their 949th vigil, saying, “We do not accept violations of academic rights, we are not giving up.”

While Özgür Özel was saying, “normalization will continue,” the news that the Ministry of National Education, which did not meet students' demand for one meal a day citing “lack of resources,” had transferred 5.6 billion TL to foundations did not even shake the agenda.

While Özgür Özel was saying, “normalization will continue,” Kyrgyzstan's 62.3 million dollar debt to Turkey was written off, and on top of that, President Erdoğan gifted a TOGG to the President of Kyrgyzstan.

 While Özgür Özel was saying, “normalization will continue,” 22-year-old Doğuş Can Kavaklı committed suicide by jumping from the 6th floor of the dormitory where he was staying in Samsun. He had been eliminated from an interview he had entered in first place, and someone who scored 10 points lower than him had been hired instead!

While the people of a country that has lost its sense of normalcy can no longer even dream of a normal life, continue with your normalization strategy, Özgür Özel…