“We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Let's disband all military, and siphon those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I think I am very sad. But I won't be forever.”
Source: Apprentice to the Villain
“More backward a country, more its fascination with guns and bombs. That's why you cannot imagine a hero, without a gun in their hands.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Best way to sustain the revenues of war,
is to showcase war as peace-intervention.
Till you grow up and denounce all militarism,
don't you dare call yourself a civilized human!”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“World First, Nation Never
(Denationalizing Sonnet)
No government wants to manufacture terror,
But they do want to manufacture control.
In doing so they end up manufacturing terror,
Thus they end up manufacturing war.
There is no such thing as war on terrorism,
The whole narrative is rigged to peddle fear.
Citizens without fear are citizens without border,
Democratic autocracy thrives on civilian fear.
Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.
World first and forever, nation never;
Till then, all blood is on your hands.
Either you are a nation’s simian citizen,
or you are planet earth’s civilized human.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Orphanizers (Demilitarization Sonnet, 1303)
Show me a nation with a huge defense budget,
I'll show you a demented nation.
Show me a nation with a big education budget,
I'll show you a nation of the future.
Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers,
Thus you plant the paradigm of peace.
Abolish all pride in nation's military,
Thus you emerge as maker of peace.
The real warmongers of the world are,
Not the world leaders, but the civilians,
Who can't think past the strength of military,
Who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.
With such civilian primitiveness rampant in society,
No conference can ensure the promise of peace.
If you really want to ensure peace on planet earth,
Denounce all politics and democracy militarist.
Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Genocide is Patriotism
(Sonnet 1634)
National anthems count for nothing,
when the nations are full of monkeys,
monkeys who keep buying bloodshed,
in the name of national security.
Genocide is patriotism, thus teaches
the textbook of defense and diplomacy.
What else do you expect from legal texts,
concocted by a bunch of stoneage monkeys!
Monkey kill, monkey laugh -
Monkeys are honored with medal!
Airforce, army, navy - so many ways
to maintain status quo of the jungle!
The purpose of every national anthem is to
enforce and maintain a status quo of war.
Show me a human without national pride,
I'll show you the pathway out of war.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations