Işıl Özgentürk Wrote: We Refuse to Be Extras!

Cumhuriyet

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

Okay, we're just extras in this beautiful country. We're wandering around in a bizarre science fiction film. Huge rocks keep falling on our heads. We keep hitting walls and bouncing back. Others are in the leading roles; they're building banks for us, imposing taxes on us. Our homes are being taken from us, our veterans are being left to die in parks, many of our acquaintances are dying in bottomless pits; our children and young people are dying…