1915: Apologise for Gallipoli?
April 18, 2020
By AHNZ
Is another person’s guilt or glory ours? How about when the sins are our father’s? According to Auckland man Nejat Kavvas¹, yes they are…
“It would be a very humane and befitting New Zealand gesture that Turks would welcome greatly. From the depth of my heart, I feel New Zealand is mature enough to do that,” said Nejat Kavvas, a former diplomat who lives in Auckland.
“…a century on from the bloodshed, he believes it is time for the New Zealand government to apologise for its part in the invasion.”
“New Zealanders were just innocent pawns and good people dragged in to a very dirty game by the British,” Mr Kavvas said.”- NZ Herald & NZ Herald
Nobody believes in invisible ipods or dogs or wives. Only children think Santa exists. ‘Government’ gets a special pleading as a category of invisible things that is supposed to be able to ‘take’ and ‘thank’ and ‘give’ and ‘judge’, ‘award’, ‘punish’ and ‘declare’, and ‘apologise’. Only individual people can do those things.
It makes no sense, say, for Jacinda Ardern or Ron Mark to *pretend* they are William Massey or Charles Upham apologising to the Kardashians *pretending* to be Ataturk!
How about we get my invisible uncle to apologise? Or, it makes as much sense for Santa to apologise! Didn’t he deliver succour to the Allies and their children throughout the war’s Christmas seasons?
Anarchists don’t hold with collectivism or collective guilt.
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1 Nejat Kavvas is a Turkish-born New Zealander. He’s some kind of wealthy entrepreneur/pharmacist diplomat/collector/dealer/artist with ties to his old tribe. He married a Kiwi and moved here in c.1977
Image ref. he landing at Anzac; Charles Edward Dixon; Alexander Turnbull Library
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