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2 Eylül 2016 Cuma

Iconic Photos And Syrian Civil War

It has been a year since Syrian Aylan Kurdi washed up on a shore in Turkey, which stroke West’s attention about the Syrian civil war. He was supposed to play on the beach not lie there without moving.  What made Aylan different was definitely the photo that made people have pity, because he wasn't the only dead child while trying to run from the war. After this sad event,  Germany declared they would accept thousands of refugees from Syria.


 In previous weeks, the world faced another soul-shattering photo. Omran in an ambulance... His half red, half gray face was not from a Hollywood movie. He was shocked and didn’t know about kids who were lucky enough to be born in Europe or the USA were watching the news while having their dinner. Once again people asked questions about the kids affected by the war.


              Do we really need to see such iconic photos to do something? I can’t deny the fact that they provoke people’s human side to take an action. However, how many have to die because of human’s stupidity and greed? I think what people don’t understand is globalization isn’t something you have profit from 3rd world countries miles away by selling them products, cars, guns anymore. Today, global crisis can affect not only the economically colonized countries, but also the colonizers as well. Therefore, developed countries have two options. They will either live their utopia and use 2nd world countries as buffer zones, or they will understand welfare of the developing countries matter. Yet, it seems incomes of Syrian civil war are more its outcomes, because except for a few air strikes, there is no direct effort to really put an end to it, which is probably because of greed, wrath and pride of humankind.
                Hope not to see photos like Omran’s and Aylan’s any more, because I am afraid people will get used to seeing such photos and just change the channel, which is unfortunately easier for them to do rather than changing their mentality or politics of their countries. 

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