I'm a bit busy nowadays, because of the newspaper routine, as well as an academic work that I needed to rush to finish. It seems that I won't be posting regularly until mid-July. However, when I've read the tragic story of Pinar Akdag, I felt an urge to write something here.
Pinar Akdag was just 22 years old. She had married a lieutenant only 40 days ago. Her husband was an officer in Osmaniye province in southern Turkey.
On June 10th, a group of PKK militants attacked the public housing facilities in Osmaniye with automatic rifles and RPGs. Pinar Akdag was just sitting in her balcony. She got shot from her head.
The military police fired back, but the militants escaped. Pinar Akdag died in the hospital. They buried her in Izmir yesterday.
Now...
Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Press, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC or all the other big names of the international media...
You should know that every time you refrain from naming PKK as a terror organization, its militants as terrorist and its acts as terror attacks, you become an accomplice of such murders.
The language can hurt people almost as severely as bullets. Especially when you refer to some people as terrorists and when you don't do it for some other people who commit a similar crime...
