Shahan Natali is absolutely right. There is no honor in the one...

12:37:00 03.08.2025

Shahan Natali is absolutely right. There is no honor in the one who sees the vengeance for their people’s blood being delivered by the hand of a foreigner, even if the enemy is defeated. True spiritual manhood is when a nation defeats its enemy by its own strength, with its own hands. That is the full realization of a nation’s spiritual integrity. When you place your hope in a foreigner, your physical power loses its moral value, and national dignity is undermined.

There must be a clear boundary: Seeing the enemy harmed by someone else may bring some joy, but that must not become victorious enthusiasm or a source of national consolation. We must return to an independent national mindset and action, in which the nation itself punishes and defeats its enemy with its own hands, not by waiting for justice to be delivered through others.

“Where is the manhood in the soul that can be satisfied with the victory of a Kurd or any other foreigner in exchange for the blood of millions of martyrs? Seeing the enemy defeated is pleasing, but defeating the enemy by one’s own hand—that is the highest level of spiritual satisfaction, which we call spiritual manhood. This manhood is always distorted when hope is placed upon the foreigner. And in order for us to gradually learn both the laws of political science and give justice to this spiritual condition, our hopes placed on the foreigner must be reduced to the minimum. Our enthusiasm must remain within the limits of the joy of seeing the enemy harmed by someone else’s hand.” — Shahan Natali, “The Turks and Us”