Gazze: Yıkımın Coğrafyası, Hegemonyanın İzleri | İTM Dersi | 07.10.2026 | 13:30

We thank Mr. Kora for sharing his time with our students. I invite him to the podium to deliver his speech.

>> The floor is yours, professor. Thank you. >> Welcome, young friends. Oh, you are quite a large crowd upstairs as well. Yes, well, as you know, it is the anniversary of October 7th. As I begin my presentation, why did October 7th happen? What happened that led to an operation like the one on October 7th?

I will start by explaining these. What was expected? What was the result? What is the state of Gaza today? And in the second part of my speech, there is something we hear quite often. It is said that what is happening in Gaza is a first in human history. Is it a first in human history or not? I will show

you this through striking data, images, and so on from other regions. And what will we have seen by doing this? Gaza was neither the first nor the last. We have seen similar things in other regions before. Actually, we haven't seen them. In Gaza, we have seen some things for the first time. Yes. Now,

let's start with this. Why did October 7th happen? For this, we need to go a little further back in history. To when ? Between 2000 and 2005, friends, the Palestinian people's second major uprising, the Intifada, would begin. At the end of this process, the Israeli Prime Minister of the time, Ariel Sharon, who held an expansionist

ideology, decided to withdraw from this tiny geography here, from Gaza, at the end of the intifada. That small place you see on the final map. Where is Gaza ? Our smallest city is Yalova. It is a place half the size of Yalova. It is teeming with people. Before October 7th , it was the 5th most crowded region in