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WHY THIS FALG IS HERE ?

A number of friends, who saw the "rainbow flag" on my website, could not keep from remarking "Oh no, not you too?"

I refuse to answer such a question due to ethical concerns. Any answer given to such a question would mean exposing a "negative attitude" to one of the sides and will ultimately harm the "human" element, which we value/should value above all.

Placing the GAY flag on my site is in fact no more than an extension of the attitude I had adopted and promoted years ago.

The journal "Kostantiniyye Haberleri" (Constantine News) that I had published for five years with a group of friends had argued that homosexuals should be protected as part of the city life and had provided a column to famous transvestite Seyhan Soylu. (Constantine News was later published under the name “Bizim ehir Haberleri” (Our City News).

Later when I was involved in commerce, I had started "red ribbon - AIDS" campaign in a fashion magazine. Part of my advertisement budget in underwear sector went to printing posters to warn the young about dangers of AIDS disease.

Now from my page on the Internet, the biggest global communications network ever, by placing a link to the well developed web site of homosexuals in Turkey and by reminding again of dangers of AIDS, I try to emphasize again that people should live in brotherhood and peace, without any discrimination based on race, language, religion, etc.

I find it necessary to repeat that it is with disgust I regard the universal standpoint, which brings people to the point of claiming, “we are homosexuals and we want our rights, we want to be equal,” and I cannot accept the idea of judging/perceiving people of their sexual choices and behavior.

The world should not be a place, where men or homosexuals are differentiated, nor particular rights are granted to women… When will it become a place of love and peace, where humans are perceived as HUMAN and what are we personally doing to achieve this?

Will it not be a step forward if we ask this question to ourselves instead of asking each other our sexual preferences?

Translated from Turkish original by Ms. Berin Ertürk