I care because I love Berlin and many of the Turks in it. That's derpy and selfish but it's also true. And I care because when I was a kid, I had a good Turkish

I care because I love Berlin and many of the Turks in it. That's derpy and selfish but it's also true. And I care because when I was a kid, I had a good Turkish friend whose family treated me like family, and I still have to smile when I recall those times. I care because it really is a disgrace that what Atatürk started ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk ) was trampled by fundamentalism. But Erdogan and his brownshirts don't get to define the whole spectrum of Turkey, of its culture and individuals, for me. I know kinda nothing of it, but already know too much to accept that. And I know intellectually that I should feel about every country as I do when I actually do love people that have a connection to a specific one. It's a failure of imagination, that's all. Why should we care about this and other things? Because we should be better than we are, and then we would care.