Turkey regrets killing of a Turkish young man by grandparents of his Dutch girlfriend

Turkey´s Foreign Ministry expressed regret on Saturday over killing of a Turkish young man by grandparents of his Dutch girlfriend.

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This is truely disturbing.

First of all, let me say that I regret the death of this young man. I feel sorry for his family, who have to miss him at such a young age.

However, I don´t agree with the remarks made by the Turkish government. This murder is not a reflection of the Dutch society. That this man had a gun in his house is highly suspect. Guns are illegal in Holland, and the fact that this guy had a gun already makes situation very strange. The neighborhood has said in interviews that the man who shot him was a bad man, who threatened other people as well. He´s clearly not an average Dutch man. The people mentoined he was arrested before because he followed somebody with an axe.

Secondly, this is the result of a long internal fight in the family. That this was caused because the man who was shot is half Turkish is speculation by the Turkish government. Personally, I think there were other things going on. The neighborhoud people said they didn´t like Atilla because he was known as being violent, also towards his girlfriend. They also suspected him to earn his money from illegal activities. It´s strange that Atilla was at those people´s house after a night of clubbing, at 6 o clock on a Saturday morning with 3 of his friends. This points towards a LOT more going on. I think we will never know what the real reasons are for shooting him, but I think screaming "Holland is xenofobic" is a simplification of the truth.

Yes, I personally also believe that my country is becoming more xenofobic, but no, this death is not caused by that. Xenofobia has not reached the point of shoting people. This is the result of a lot of strange people getting together, and the situation spinning out of control. The Turkish government calling this killing of a half-Dutch, half-Turkish person a xenofobic murder is not helping the multi-culti society in Holland at ALL. It will just make the Turkish people feel as victims, while the Turkish people in Holland are mostly nothing like Atilla, and will never end up in a situation like this.

Self-criticism is not easy. You are bound to come with lots of "buts" and "howevers". We know Holland is not completely xenophobic nor does it set an example to racial tolerance.

Let´s remember Pippa´s story. She was the woman who was murdered in Turkey in a wedding gown. Her point was proving that people are essentially good. There is a risk in making such assumptions. The Turk who raped and killed her does not represent the average Turk either. Still, he is a product of this society. He is the bad face of this society The only way to get any improvement would be understanding and isolating the conditions that made that crime possible.

Pippa made a wrong assumption affecting the assumptions to be made by millions of others about Turkish society. Let´s stop making these void assumptions. You can´t turn a donkey into a zebra just by painting stripes on it. We know Holland is not all good, nor is it all bad.

Can´t we just try to iron out the rough spots rather than advocating our countries.

Yes, he was murdered. Yes, this was bad. And yes, we need to recognize things to be able to improve them. However, we need to diagnose things CORRECTLY. If somebody is murdered because there was a crazy guy with a gun in his house, we shouldn´t call this racism. We should look at the real reason, to solve this issue. For example, how did this man get the gun? As Dutch society we (me and my countrymen) should look at the trade of illegal guns in Holland. This man was arrested before, why was he set free? We should look at the current legal system in Holland. People said they were afraid of the killer. Why didn´t they go to the police before, or did the police didn´t listen?

A lot of reasons to look at. But if racism isn´t one of them, calling Holland xenofobic will not solve this issue at all. The Turkish government just saw the word "Turkish" and "murder" and didn´t look into the issue any further. They didn´t see any other parts, like the fact that he was half Dutch and raised alone by his Dutch mother all his life. They also didn´t see the questionable back ground of the boy, pointing towards him being a pimp, possibly also for this girl. If the Turkish government wants to fight racism in Europe, they should address real racist violence. Getting mixed up in an unrelated murder, with a questionable victim is not usefull at all.