Evil Unveiled: The State Murder of a Cancer-Fighting Kid in Turkey
The slow-motion but steady march of Ahmet to his death, after endless chapters of official obstruction for his treatment abroad, is a textbook case of state brutality in plain sight.
Ahmet Burhan Atac, a 10-year-old kid whose epic battle against cancer has become a defining feature of the agony that permeated Turkey’s forgotten community of purge victims, has finally passed away.
He died early on Thursday (on local time) in Turkey. The last words the little Ahmet incoherently mumbled while on mechanical ventilation were the embodiment of what he most craved for during his last moments: a reunion with his father at least for the last time. He died away, uttering “ daddy, daddy, daddy …”
It was not the fact that Ahmet eventually died, but the way how he slowly marched to his (probably preventable) death what struck the public, at least those who closely monitored his situation from the beginning, most.
It was only three hours after I penned down a sketchy piece to map out the contours of his slow-motion but steady march to his destiny. It was a journey played out in plain sight in front of the whole society. And when fate has finally…
