bombs and news and istanbul

after the bombing of the synagogs on saturday there was a second attack today in istanbul. the hsbc bank central building and british consolate were bombed by live bombs, both in very central and crowded places in istanbul. 27 dead, 405 injured so far. news are on tv anyway, and you may know about them from the world televisions or internet already. all I can do maybe is to share experience.
this morning waiting on the bus stop a friend was passing by with a car and took me to the metro station, the entrance in front of the hsbc bank building. a little earlier than I could go with the bus. I took the metro to school, somewhere beside the british consolate. around ten minutes earlier than I was going to be there without my friend. and around ten minutes after the class started we heard the explosions. the ground shaked and a huge cloud rose up to the air. I imagined the sound to be some thunder, though I somehow knew and it was such a beautiful sunny day today. and all dissolved when someone said “these are bad days..” . we watched the reddish brownish clouds from the balcony and listened the alarms of the ambulances. first we were not let out of school not to be live targets and listened to the news let into the design studios from radios, then we went to donate blood but came back becouse too many people wanted to help and were on the queue anyway. I think I never was so close to explode like a ten minute shift. neither other people in school and so who most hang around at the same places.. So was the rest of the day to settle down and we went on with the afternoon lectures and all other events were cancelled.
I don’t know what I feel, but it definitely is not fear. I used to have difficulty understanding, now it looks more clear and more stupid as well. I can see, or guess the reasons of such inhumane acts. I can have guesses on who do it, what kind of brainwashed creature can be a live bomb, what are smaller scale and bigger scale aims behind these kinds of attacts. All I know is none of the reasons I can think of or I’ve been told of are sufficient to be one’s aim, one’s life, one’s fight… they are no reasons to fight and kill for.
we blame and are all against terror.

bilge – nc – tr

posted by bilge
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:14:38 GMT