In the last few weeks I have been talking with many Turkish people: I listened to their stories, looked at pictures and videos they had sent me, chatted with them. I felt their hope and their anger, trying to understand their feelings and express them in my articles. Then, when you get emails like this one, a journalistic summary suddenly seems to be useless: you realize that such an email cannot be shortened and the only thing you can do is to translate it as literally as possible so that you don’t miss a word; because every sentence is important and the testimony of a young man has turned into a declaration of love for his people and his country. Here is the letter: