What happened two years ago on 6 February was a great disaster. We lost tens of thousands of our people. For those of us who remained behind, having lost their homes, cities and relatives, life has not been and will not be the same.
We have learnt some lessons. We have realised again that it is not possible for a state surrendered to greed for profit and irrationality to protect its citizens. We have once again seen how the market approach cripples the ability to plan and coordinate. We have seen that we have nothing but our organised power and a lot can be done with limited resources when we act together.
Although they try their best to make us forget these lessons in our country, where politics flows very fast and new disasters occur every day, there is a trace left in the memory of the people that will not be easily erased.
In the intervening time, many things have happened to refresh this trace. Wherever money, not planning, was in charge, earthquakes happened and we died; floods occurred and we died; fires broke out and we died.
After two years, life in the earthquake zone is still carried out in tents and containers. The deprivation to which the region is condemned is not only related to the political punishment imposed on the people by the government. The address of their investments is not the development of the country and the welfare of the people, but the coffers of the bourgeoisie. When they are confronted with the inevitable consequences of this understanding, they themselves cannot get out from under the rubble they have created, they cannot manage it, they cannot rule.
As the Aegean Sea is shaking one after the other with the earthquakes and only the timing of the İstanbul earthquake, which is almost certain to destroy the whole city according to scientific data, is being discussed, it is time to remember:
We must take the future of our country, which has been weakened by big holdings and sects even in the face of natural and predictable disasters, into our own hands, and we must rely on our own strength in order not to forget 6th February and not to experience it again.
We take this opportunity to remind the call for duty we made a few days ago:
If they cannot rule the country, we are the people, we can rule ourselves.
