Reflection:5

WHO WANTS TO KNOW OUR HEROES?

A few days ago, I was watching a TV programme whose name is ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’.In that programme, there was a question whose answer was Rauf Denktaş. It was a voice question and Rauf Denktaş was speaking about Cyprus with his Cypriot accent. He was saying ‘we are going to save it to the end' .The contestant couldn’t answer the question correctly although she asked the question to his friend via telephone and used her fifty-fifty joker right. She was a young , university graduate student lady and a master student in a private university. I think it was a tragic moment not only for that girl but also for our young generation. She was representing our generation there and I assume there are young people who don’t know who Rauf Denktaş is.

In fact Kenan Işık ,my namesake and the anchor person of the competition, gave the truest answer to this question. He said ‘we have to know our heroes and keep them alive. And at the end of his speech he said ‘ we have to know this. You know in the 20th century, heroes don’t bring up easily. Yes, it was the truest question which could be given to this question. I believe if this young lady had known this question, it wouldn’t be as important as my namesake’s words. She could earn 2.000 TL more, but we couldn’t know why we must know our heroes.

Because of this reason, I thank to my namesake and ‘ only real TV programme in Turkey’. By the way, hero of the Cyprus Turks ,Rauf Denktaş, ‘God rest your soul’. It is our shame not knowing you. Rest in peace.