This mucilage is a holy message

I spent all my summers in the Marmara Sea when I was a child. You wouldn’t long for the Aegean and Mediterranean beaches because the Marmara Sea was just as clean and as safe. Then came urbanization, and overcrowding. This was around when I was in high school. At the time, we were spending our summer holidays in Kumburgaz and Silivri. But this didn’t last long because pollution surrounded all the coasts in Istanbul. Then people began to opt for the Princes’ Islands. If those who let Istanbul turn into a pile of concrete had acted with sensitivity and took some action, the Marmara would have remained the way it was and not just me but everyone could enjoy it instead of traveling thousands of kilometers for other seas. I believe this natural disaster called ‘mucilage’ is not a surprise; it’s a holy message! Though it didn’t show it, the Marmara Sea has been experiencing this pain for years. It resisted for a long time but then spat all that waste in an act of misery to show its suffering at the hands of arrogant humans.