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The Children’s Foundation publishes statements written by poets on the occasion of World Children’s Day, which is celebrated on the first Monday of October every year. This year’s Turkey statement was written by the poet İsmail Karakurt.
Pointing out that women and children are the most affected by all the negativities, from pandemics to wars, from climate crisis to migration, Karakurt said, “The problem that turned into a big question and problem. It is in our hands to take the world on a journey of hope. As long as we are on the side of children first,” he says.
The full text of the Children’s Foundation 2021 World Children’s Day Turkey Statement written by Karakurt is as follows:
As an adult, what do you hear when you want to see and perceive what is going on in the world through the eyes of a child? Our children talk about war and violence, pain, victimization, sexual harassment. Our children grieve for their poverty and deprivation, their siblings who are forced to work and abused. While they talk about nomadism that has turned into a death trap, the corona virus epidemic surrounding the world, the desperation they experience for those who cannot go to school and those who die of hunger, what do we think about this child reality?
Of course, the most affected by all these negativities in the world women and our children. Aren’t we helpless in the face of the Kovid-19 virus epidemic that has continued in the last two years? Our children have been made unable to live their childhood, go out on the streets, go out to nature, meet their friends, and go to school. For the first time in the world, children have been deprived of education for such a long time: Even though schools were opened in September, the social gap in the children’s world continues to grow. turned into tragic spirals. Many of the children met death directly by drowning in the seas and rivers on their migration route; They were cut off from life, their families and the world.
Despite the grievances caused by the crown-breaker epidemic, injustices were not remedied, but we also met with a silent world. The world remained silent against the helplessness of millions of children in Africa, Asia, China, Palestine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, East Turkestan, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, India, Myanmar, Rwanda and South America in the last quarter century! And the looming drought, burned forests, desertified soils, as the glaciers began to melt, further deepened our concerns about climate change. Despite this, it is in our hands to take the world, which has turned into a big question and problem, on a journey of hope. As long as we’re on the side of the child first…
The politicians who withered the flowers of lullabies, fairy tales and poems should keep talking about their country’s progress, economic growth, increase in national income, and development. We are hopeful of children and young people, not politicians.
We are going through a fast and hormonal digital age. In this process, family and child problems are also growing exponentially. Also, isn’t it wrong to try on children what the parents couldn’t experience? More than ever, children need natural purity, to be left to their natural state, rather than racing. Children’s living in a suitable family, home, room, street, nature… is the main duty of us adults, and this call is also a requirement of reason, conscience, justice and respect for the child.
)Congratulations to all the human flower children of the world…
About İsmail Karakurt
İsmail Karakurt, born in 1964. He completed his primary and secondary education in Yozgat and Kayseri; He completed his higher education in Ankara. He started writing during his university years. His poems and articles have been published in various magazines. His first poetry book Simurg was published in 1992. With this book, he was awarded the TYB 1992 Poetry Award. Her other poetry books were published as Intimate Mecazlar (1999), Childhood Bir Child (2005), Flower Writing (2018). He continues to write on trees and children. He dreams of the day when these works will meet the readers and children as books. Father of Mevlana Yusuf and Selçuk Eren and grandfather of Gökçe. He lives in Istanbul. (IR)
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