The man who jumped off the bridge

A man jumped off a bridge and some newspapers reported: “Traffic is jammed on the Bosphorus Bridge again.”

A person who works in the newsroom of a TV station tweeted: “To the idiot who jumped off the Bosphorus Bridge: Where are you going with the rights of all these people? Traffic is jammed...”
A man jumped off a bridge.

The police officer who was sent to prevent the suicide took a “selfie” in front of the man instead. Yeni Şafak newspaper, after emphasizing the reaction against the “selfie” on social media, published this headline: “Selfie with a suicide activist...”

“Suicide activist...”

Do the reporter who called the man who jumped off the bridge an “idiot” and the police officer who took a selfie with him belong to the same minority of people suffering from “a rare case of remorselessness?” I wish I could believe and support this view.

However, I remember a young man who was about to jump to his death in Mecidiyeköy five years ago. I remember a girl in Bilecik who was ready to let herself drop into the abyss, and I remember the shocking sentence I read in both of those news items:

“People who gathered downstairs chanted: ‘Jump, jump...’”

Meanwhile, a guy got married five times. He murdered two of his wives. He was kicked off a “marriage show” that he was appearing on to find someone else to marry. Seda Sayan, a popular media personality, invited the murderer of two women onto her show. There was a lot of criticism. “You invited a murderer on air just for ratings,” said the son of one of the women he murdered on the phone during the show. Sayan responded: “Why wouldn’t we?” She looked around at her guests, surrounded by “experts” and said...