Asım Çavuşoğlu: "Our culture is degenerating! Let's behave ourselves!"

Asım Çavuşoğlu, one of the heads of the Madrasah Graduate Muslim Teachers Association, which left its mark on a period, drew attention to the corruption of our culture in his article.

After he was dismissed by the Greek administration while he was working in the Minority Schools, Asım Çavuşoğlu continued his service both as the chairman of the Madrasah Graduate Muslim Teachers Association and with the books and columns he wrote about education.

Çavuşoğlu has numerous articles to date on keeping minority language, culture, and religion alive and drawing attention to the problems of minority education.

In his new article, Asım Çavuşoğlu drew attention to the games played on minority culture, the alienation of young people from their own culture, and many other points.

"Our culture is degenerating! Let's Come To Ourselves…

Culture refers to the knowledge, belief, art, thought, and practices that a human community transfers from generation to generation.

As a way of life, societies that adhere to their culture can survive on the stage of history, even if they falter from time to time.

Societies that have corrupted their own culture have been assimilated by the dominant cultures and disappeared in the graveyard of history. In this sense, the fact that our society, especially our young people, is moving away from their own identity and culture day by day, brings with it the deterioration of the family structure. Birthday celebrations and pompous weddings, which are tried to be included in the minority family structure as if it were a civilization, are increasing day by day. On the family structure of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority, there were scenarios in our villages years ago that they would be cut off from their religious understanding and thought and brought back to another life. Unfortunately, there are some among our minority who are trying to distort the minority family structure with the fallacy of modernity. Just as Western scholars once infiltrated Islamic countries and pretended to be Muslims, finding the opportunity to listen to their words, they explained the new inventions and possibilities of science, the new weapons they made, and said, "These are inventions of the people, those who use them become unbelievers." They deceived our people by saying this so. While the enemies of Islam were deceiving Muslims like this, on the other hand, Muslims did not like science, they did not want material sciences, they tried to separate the youth from Islam and to destroy Islam from within, saying that Islam is reactionary and bigotry.

Today, as a minority and as a society, I think it is essential that we immediately start working against this issue in unity.

Our people, who are sensitive about the future of our minority, have to pay attention to this cultural issue without losing the generation (perhaps generations). Because it is impossible not to see or feel that the understanding of material solidarity is collapsing in our social life with each passing day, and this brings spiritual dissolution.

As a natural result of the developments in recent years, the increasing migration from the village to the city has resulted in the alienation of our urbanized population from each other.

However, this alienation has intensified and increased towards staggering dimensions, the basis of national life and integration, and has tended to destroy our customs and traditions that extend from the past to the future, connect the minority people with each other in sorrow, joy and every moment, and shape the way of life of our society.

I would like to underline that today, besides the younger generations, the middle-aged group also lives far from Islamic standards. However, since our society is a community that is fond of its religious culture and fully committed to its beliefs, such values ​​have been passed on from grandfather to grandchild for centuries.

Finally, it is vital that the relevant authorities take the necessary measures immediately against this cultural pollution and corruption and that individuals pay more attention to keeping their own culture alive.  In our daily life, all our behaviors should be taken under control, how much and how we protect our religious and national values ​​should be accounted for, and where we went wrong should be investigated.

Note: With this column, I wanted to briefly express my sensitivity for the future of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority…"