Prayers for Turkey

I just saw coverage of this late this evening.
Is it being covered by a lot of media channels?

36 lives lost, 147 people injured at Istanbul Ataturk Airport. There were three explosions, three terrorists present from what was reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a unified international fight against terrorism.

"Make no mistake: For terrorist organizations, there is no difference between Istanbul and London, Ankara and Berlin, Izmir and Chicago or Antalya and Rome," he said.
"Unless all governments and the entire mankind join forces in the fight against terrorism, much worse things than what we fear to imagine today will come true."

Prayers and love sent to all victims, their families and all in grieving. This could have been any city, and no matter what city, it matters...

Let there be Peace on Earth.

Are these events becoming so common that, just like the gun massacres in the USA (where they still refuse to change their laws) we just finish our coffee and start another day saying..oh well...This post was made 7 hours ago and yet...I'm the first to reply....

Innocent people are being killed!...have we become immune to that fact?

Cowards, and they really don't deserve my time, you can change the laws all you want, you can't stop things like this, anyone can strap a bomb to their ass and walk into a building and blow themselves up, anyone can park a car filled with explosives and detonate it killing innocent people that are just trying to get on with their lives. What have you accomplished, nothing but cowardice. You have a problem with individuals, governments, then take them out, stop killing innocent people for no reason......

Hellon

As surprising as this may be to you and everyone else on site, you and I are in perfect accord here. These events are and always be atrocious and fully deserving of our time and thoughts at least.
I saw this post earlier and meant to comment but had to rush off (no excuses though).
However, I just cannot help but feel that when it doesn't effect the west, it just doesn't seem to matter quite so much. Main headlines today in Britain? Still f......g Brexit! I wonder if that would be the case if a bomb went off in Heathrow...

Anyway, thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that has suffered in this horrific tragedy.

Me and my boyfriend were talking... We pretty much were saying it would be really nice if we could go about 15-25 days without an attack and without innocent people killed.

Pretty much it feels like this is happening so much that i just dont know whats happening with the world anymore

I read this to my boyfriend when I saw it posted, but did not comment. In fact, we didn't have much to say about it between the two of us. It makes me feel like crying. Or screaming. Or both. I am scared. There's enough evil in this world and enough man made lethal weapons (that are easy enough to buy and to build) that I feel none of us are safe. I'm scared every time I'm at an airport, a theater, a form of public transport (train, subway, bus), a landmark location, a school, a large public place. I'm scared when anyone I love is at one of these places. Prime targets, that's what these places feel like to me. This is the world we live in now.
I apologize for coming off hopeless and cowardly. It's how these things make me feel. Powerless too.
I felt like the NSA was a bad thing, a breach of privacy, but if anything there needs to be better surveillance because what we have is not cutting it. Apparently we need metal detectors to enter any public building, detectors for bombs at every street corner, better regulation of lethal weapons, the components that make up bombs... I don't know. What is this world when kids everywhere should fear leaving their homes? We need education in primary schools about how evil men twist religion for evil gain, how terrorism is a sickness. We need better access to counsellors who are better trained.

We need, we need, we need to make it stop. Tears streaming down my face thinking about it. My job exists because of the evil workings of men. I flip on the tv and hear another story about the evils of men. It's like a sickness. Are we seeing the first stages of an apocalypse? How long before the bombs get bigger? How long until weapons of mass destruction are soaring through the air to exterminate whole cities. This is our world and we only get one. We're the great experiment.
This is how the needless deaths in Turkey make me feel.

We need brave men and women to speak out. We need heroes. We need serious change on a global scale.

It makes me sick to the Pitt of my stomach that innocent people are being killed.
I agree Hellon, it seems that we turn on the news with our morning/afternoon/evening meal and drink and say "oh not this again."

Edit* Jane you must have been commenting when I was. I totally agree. In these situations I become hopeless too.

Jane - absolutely. I was in the theatre watching Wicked with my wife and kids in London a month back and halfway through, I found myself looking around and a feeling of sudden dread took me. "What if something happened with my family here? Should I be here?" etc etc. The world is becoming a terrifying place.

Working in media, this has become sickening.. Your comments Hellon are on spot..it's becoming a day to day shift.. We had 8 bombings same day in Qaa region southern Lebanon in the same place same (Monday), most of those who bombed themselves in people are young boys.. I don't know where are we heading. All of us.

I agree that everyone's comments are exactly on point, and, Jane, I really understand your terror.
However, this feeling of terror in our every day life is exactly what they want.
Instead, transform the terror into dedication.
Lobby for gun control, demand accountability from politicians, thank the TSA worker who must hand search your bag, refuse to withdraw from the public forum, be intensely aware of your surroundings.

^ Yes, so true. Good reminder to live beyond the fear.

Does anyone know of an airport where you have to go through security before entering the building? At the moment, people can just go to airports to watch planes arrive and depart...in that part of the airport( the entry way) it's very much a free for all so, maybe that needs to be seriously looked at. I mean...in American (maybe I've watched one to many movies) but, don't high school kids there have to go through some kind of security before getting into school? Makes sense to me to expand on that idea at every airport. Yes, it will be totally inconvenient and, perhaps people will have to get there 30 mins earlier but..so what if it cuts down on these attacks.

I know of no such security screening for American students at any level.

Mmmm I guess I've been watching too much TV then haha!! One movie that comes to mind and I know there are others was...Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles....the students went through security in that movie to access their school ...Chicago based from memory???

I think most Americans say oh well because nothing will change. It really won't. Because if it does, it would have years ago.

Oh well

Hellon (and Jane) there are -some- schools that do have metal detectors. It's just not overly common. I know of one in Oregon, and it's in a very ghetto/run down city (lots of meth and heroine addicts). But not a common practice, no.

I love your idea, Hellon, of detectors at the beginning of airports. We picked up my mom from the Seattle airport, and I was shocked at how far we could actually get, and how much access we had. Of course we couldn't get to gates etc, but I think that's a great idea of cracking down on -who- comes in.

The news just breaks my heart. I can't hardly watch it anymore. I totally agree with Larry on the fact that we do not let fear interfere with our lives. I used to be terrified like that, but that's why terrorists have their name - to instill fear. Instead I will instill love and grace and kindness, and do my part to change what I can. If every good/kind intended person did that, or attempted to, and to live beyond themselves, I wonder how this world would be. I'm not saying none of you don't do that, just a generalization overall.

And now Baghdad too... So many prayers needed for those affected and continuing to grieve.

And Bangladesh

Ya :( around 23+ in Bangladesh, and today 213 dead so far in Baghdad/Iraq with other 200 injured.

More dreadful news. Thoughts go out to all those that have been touched in any way by these atrocious acts.