REFLECTION TASK 3 - THE PERSON OF THE YEAR 2015

        

      If I would be a jury member of a committee choosing the person of the year then I would say in a deep sorrow that my candidate would be Aylan Kurdi, the 3 years old innocent immigrant who was trying to go to Europe fleeing from Syria via Bodrum, Turkey on 03rd September, 2015 and tragically their boat aborded and their corpses have been found on the Bodrum seaside.

     This tragic photo slammed our face that we lost our humanity and became helpless and speechless about such a terrible event that is happening just next to us and I am afraid that we - as a nation -  are also guilty about these tragic ends of innocent babies. May God bless them and forgive us for our sins that we could not manage to solve the problems before coming to this point.

     As it is announced many times in social media that if there would be a duck, dolphin or a whale many people would try to sacrifice them to protect and survive them but when the matter is about Syrian or Irakian refugees, immigrants then those volunteer humanistic approaches disappear immediately which makes myself ashamed of being a human.

    I was expecting from all over the world, especially from United Nations that they would play more effective roles about this issue but they - or we - proved that talking a lot does not mean that we do enough things in order to solve this issue.