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Mancs: Meaning; claw…
Mancs: Meaning; claw…
Mancs, who came from Miskolc, Hungary with the Spider Rescue team, had pulled four-year-old ‘Hatıra’ out of the rubble 82 hours after the August 17 earthquake.
August 17, 1999. İzmit Bekirpaşa Town... They had Mancs smell the little boys quilt. Mancs was excitedly pointing to her location, wagging his tail, and scratching. As a result of the teams work, it was determined that the little girl was still alive. However, she was stuck in a place that was hard to reach. The rescue efforts were prolonged. While the efforts continued, Mancs carried water to the girl through a narrow passage so that she could survive. Every time he emerged from the rubble, he would wag his tail, letting them know that she was alive. The Hungarian rescue team and their dog, Mancs, managed to pull four-year-old ‘Hatıra’ out of the rubble alive after 82 hours.
This poor animal, who saved hundreds of people in different parts of the world, started life as an ownerless dog with a crippled hind leg.
When he died in 2006, this statue was erected in Hungary in his memory. From time to time, thanks are presented to that homeless, crippled dog in the same way with flowers.
Just as no one knew about Haciko before Richard Gere made him famous, no one knows about Bamse in Norway or the Hungarian Mancs in our country. Because the questioning and emotionality of a mass whose research and reading culture is extremely limited even in the history of animal rights, who are moreover instrumental in all kinds of absurd tweets and Facebook articles with their ignorant audacity, who can attack even without a document, evidence or court order, who cannot even go beyond being pet lovers, cannot be more than Middle Eastern arabesque.
Mancs, Bamse, Haciko gained the respect they deserved in their countries even more after they died. But their statues were erected while they were still alive. The living ones are already in high demand.
The same goes for ours whose statues we await in Taksim, Alsancak, İzmit and Kızılay squares.
As a monument to our disloyalty and ignorance..
Ahmet Kemal Senpolat
Haytap President
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