There was an event that revealed the effects of the current period on the youth of the country and upset us all. Fırat University Faculty of Medicine student Enes Kara committed suicide because of the pressures, future anxiety and despair.
Enes Kara, just 19 years old and he was a young university student who had just stepped into life. Like many of the young people living in this country, he had a life in which he was dragged into a life he did not want and a future where he had no hope, under various pressures. Unable to bear the burden of all this, Enes ended his life, leaving behind a video and a note.
The department he attended, the community dormitory he stayed in, and the family pressure that forced him into a life he did not want tell us a lot about both Enes’ death and the outlook of the young people in our country. In the note that Enes left thisI no longer have the joy of living He chose to tell.
‘If you do a little research on the internet, you will understand the situation of the doctors’
One of the topics that Enes mentioned the most in the note he left behind is the chapter he read. medicine and medical profession. The great migration of doctors in our country in the recent period, the increase in violence, poor working conditions, salaries… Each of these has turned this chapter, which should be read with enthusiasm, into a place of despair for Enes.
In a part of the note he left, Enes explained his thoughts about the episode with the following words;
“Come on, I moved to an easier university, when you graduate, you have to work like a dog. you may be exposed to psychological-physical violence In short, you can’t work in humane conditions, you don’t get the reward for your efforts, and even if you become an expert, the problems do not end even if it ends, this period corresponds to the next 10 years of my life, your salary is 8k, let’s say 10, even if it is 10, it does not even exceed the poverty line.”
“This was the first problem, and I have a family”
One of the things that took away Enes’ ‘joy of life’ was family pressure. Family pressure is a topic that is one of the most painful realities of our society and unfortunately equally difficult to accept. Especially if this pressure had an effect on a young person taking his own life. Unfortunately, Enes also experienced this. His family forced him into a life he didn’t want, The fact that he was prevented from dreaming about the future of his own gave him an overwhelming hopelessness at the age of 19.
Enes also described the situation regarding his family as follows;
“This was the first problem, and I have a family. I have not been a Muslim since about the 11th grade, and my family, on the contrary, is one of the most bigoted families in Turkey. To put it simply, my uncle could not marry his girlfriend of 10 years just because his hair was bare. At the moment, I am staying in the community dormitory because of their force. In high school and secondary school, I used to visit such madrasas frequently, and on some holidays I stayed in boarding. At that time, I didn’t want to, but my family was pushing and I was coming 1-2 days a week or I was boarding 1-2 weeks a year, it wasn’t too difficult. I was thinking that I will come to university at most.. Time prayers are obligatory here. We do it as a congregation, there is a lesson after the prayer, etc. It takes about 30 minutes every time, it is mandatory to read the books that are here for 1 hour a day. You must attend the community class 3 days a week, and the students cook the meals, and we do the cleaning once a week. I wake up with the morning prayer, I go to school, I come, after the evening prayer, meal, reading, night prayer, congregational lesson, after 10 o’clock, I wake up again at 6.30 the next day. Mondays are like this, other days there is no congregation class, only I am free at 8 o’clock, on the weekends it is similar, there is something like 3 hours left and I cannot study properly in the remaining time because I am psychologically tired. When I think of these 2 problems separately, they are not unbearable things, but when I combine them, it takes all my joy of life, I don’t feel free It’s like 3 hours out of 24 hours that I can spare for myself. In addition, there is a reading program at the end of the semester. You read from the books here from morning to evening for 1 week, and they confiscate your phone or something. Think about it, you endure it for a while and then you rejoice for a break, but there is no forced reading program. I’m bad even at writing. Every day is stressful, my hair is falling out, and there are whites from time to time (though it’s not like it used to be since I quit school for a while). I never imagined my 19th birthday like this.”
Congregational hostels destroy the freedoms of young people
In our country, the majority of high school and university students family difficulties or ‘impossibilities’The community dormitories he went to because of ‘they take away all the privileges of young people who will experience life and meet freedom under the name of religious education and practices. These institutions, which do not offer young people a choice, are unfortunately often at the center of many unfortunate events.
Enes’ experiences show us once again how serious this situation is. of young people that they are not just a piece of clay to be shaped and put into use. It is the duty of families and society to understand and provide them with a future that they can look forward to.
If he cannot be happy because he will become a doctor, if he says he has no joy in life, if he is overwhelmed by anxieties, if he says, “I went through this, maybe my brothers will be saved” and ends his life, this is not just Enes’s story, but the story of all of us. we hope days when young people can ‘live’is not far from us.
Countless shares were made on social media, as in every painful event.
