Public backlash against AKP’s ‘Who are you?’ video
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The Justice and Development Party (AKP) Youth Organization shared a video on its social media account yesterday (October 20).
As the video asks citizens, "Who are you?" (Sen Kimsin?), the hashtag #senkimsin became a trending topic on Twitter due to the reactions.
While the video of the party starts with Musʽab ibn ʽUmair, a companion (sahabi) of Prophet Muhammad and ends with President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it also features a series of other figures such as Ottoman Sultans Suleiman the Magnificent and Mehmed the Conquerer, former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.
Intended as a publicity stunt, the video has received several negative reactions on social media with messages referring to male violence and feminicides in Turkey as well as violence against animals, the destruction of nature and the people who lost their lives in occupational homicides.
Some of these messages are as follows:
Sen 7’si çocuk 25 yurttaşının öldüğü bu ülkede ertesi gün başkanlık kutlamaları yapansın.
— Mısra ÖZ (@misra_oz) October 20, 2020
Sen adalet çığlığımızı duymayıp, bize sırtını dönensin. @RTErdogan
Ben Oğuz Arda Sel’im! #OğuzArda
Ben Oğuz Arda Sel’in annesiyim!
Ben #adalet isteyen bir anneyim!#senkimsin @AKGenclikGM https://t.co/hCjTYf6HfG pic.twitter.com/5nMGPkxQ4E
Mısra Öz, who lost his son Oğuz Arda Sel in Çorlu Train Massacre: "You are the one who made a celebration for Presidency one day after your 25 citizens, including 7 children, died. You are the one who did not hear our cry for justice and turned your back on us. I am Oğuz Arda Sel! I am the mother of Oğuz Arda Sel! I am a mother who demands justice!"
Ben, AKP milletvekili Şirin Ünal'ın evinde şüpheli bir şekilde ölen Nadira Kadirova'yım;
— Kadın Savunması (@kadinsavunmasi) October 20, 2020
Katili "bulunamayan" Rabia Naz'ım, Yeldana Kaharman'ım.
Ayşe Paşalı, Emine Bulut, Özgecan Aslan, Şule Çet, Aleyna Çakır... Ben katledilen tüm kadınlarım ve iktidarınızı yıkacak olanım! https://t.co/K2DEfbCNVW
Women's Defense: "I am Nadira Kadirova, who suspiciously died in the house of AKP MP Şirin Ünal. I am Rabia Naz, whose murderer 'cannot be found,' I am Yeldana Kaharman. Ayşe Paşalı, Emine Bulut, Özgecan Aslan, Şule Çet, Aleyna Çakır... I am all massacred women and I am the one who will topple your rule."
Ben madenlerle, JESlerle, HESlerle, termiklerle, bilumum ucube projelerle katlettiğiniz Kazdağları'yım, Karadeniz'in dereleri yaylalarıyım, Kışladağ'ım, Kuzey Ormanları'yım, Hasankeyf'im, Fatsa'yım, ağacım, kuşum, böceğim, havayım. Kısacası doğayım!#senkimsin pic.twitter.com/itbHq5klNj
— Kazdağları İstanbul Dayanışması (@kazdaglariist) October 20, 2020
İstanbul Solidarity for Ida Mountains: "I am the Ida Mountains, the brooks and higlands of the Black Sea, Kışladağ, Northern Forests, Hasankeyf, Fatsa, which you have destroyed with you geoelectrical power plants, hydroelectric power plants and all types of monstrous projects; I am the tree, the bird, the insect and air. In short, I am nature!"
Ben Gezide hayatını kaybeden
— Arlet Natali AVAZYAN (@NataliAVAZYAN) October 20, 2020
Mehmet Ayvalıtaş,Abdullah Cömert,Ethem Sarısülük,Ali İsmail Korkmaz,Ahmet Atakan,Berkin Elvan,Burak Can Karamanoğlu,Mehmet İstif ve Elif Çermik'im
Ben Soma'da hayatını kaybedn 301 Maden işçisiyim
Ben Ankara Gar da 103 kaybedilen Canım#SenKimsin
"I am Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, Abdullah Cömert, Ethem Sarısülük, Ali İsmail Korkmaz, Ahmet Atakan, Berkin Elvan, Burak Can Karamanoğlu, Mehmet İstif, Elif Çermik, who lost their lives in Gezi; I am 301 miners who lost their lives in Soma; I am 103 lives lost in Ankara Train Station."
#senkimsin kontgerilla tarafından katledilen, Av Medet Serhat’ım, Av Şevket Epözdemir, Av Tahir Elçi’yim ben!
— Eren Keskin (@KeskinEren1) October 20, 2020
Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair, lawyer Eren Keskin: "I am lawyer Medet Serhat and Şevket Epözdemir, who were massacred by the counterguerilla; I am lawyer Tahir Elçi!"
Biz Hidro Elektrik Santralleriyle mahvettiniz dereler, "Altın" ı üstüne getirdiğiniz Cerattepeler, Bu rezil sisteminizin kanser ettiği Kazımlarız. #senkimsin? pic.twitter.com/mrB1vQbilj
— Kazım Koyuncu Kültür Merkezi (@kazimkoyuncukm) October 20, 2020
Kazım Koyuncu Cultural Center: "We are the brooks that you have destroyed with your hydroelectric power plants; we are the Cerattepe and other places that you have turned upside down for 'gold'; we are Kazım and others like him that you caused to have cancer."
Ben ilaç yardimi istedigi bakan tarafindan cebine para sikistirilan, yardim cigliklarini duyuramayip ölüme mahkum edilen Dilek Özçelik'im https://t.co/wGAhRKrEa4 pic.twitter.com/5n5lPCKi2h
— Aliii (@Alisitmeez) October 20, 2020
"I am Dilek Özçelik, in whose pocket a Minister pressed money for medicine, whose cries for help were not heard and who was abandoned to death."
Ben, devletin tetikçisi tarafindan haince katledilen Hrant Dink'im #senkimsin pic.twitter.com/JpzoTFjrUp
— Elvan Kartal (@ElvanKartal6) October 20, 2020
"I am Hrant Dink, who was heinously massacred by the hitman of the state."
Ben AKP'li Şirin Ünal'ın katlettiği Nadira Kadirova'yım. Katlettiğiniz ama intihar etti diyerek dosyasını kapattığınız Rabia Naz'ım. 290 gündür bulmadığınız Gülistan Doku'yum. Sisteminizin sömürdüğü Furkan Celep'im, Sibel Ünli'yim, Ömer Ateş'im, Melek Kurtuluş'um, Berfin'im... https://t.co/gQZid7IJLX
— genaym (yine haklı) (@inessarmandd) October 20, 2020
"I am Nadira Kadirova, whom AKP's Şirin Ünal massacred. I am Rabia Naz, whom you massacred, but whose file you closed, saying that she had committed suicide. I am Gülistan Doku, whom you have not found for 290 days. I am Furkan Celep, Sibel Ünli, Ömer Ateş, Melek Kurtuluş, Berfin, whom your system exploited..."(EKN/SD)