Chapter 1

Above the entrance of the school building a sign read:

The handsome youth named Aytekin and the beautiful girl named L�le had gone to their classroom and sat down in their seats in the first row. The teacher came into the class, carrying a book entitled �War�. He opened it and announced �The subject of our lesson today is �War�.

Many countries at present are actively engaged in warfare. They constantly produce atom bombs, dropping them from their planes over neighbouring states.� Aytekin tried to slip L�le a note, but the teacher noticed this, took the note away and read it out loud:

The teacher smiled at Aytekin. �We burn the fires of war, but you let flowers bloom in this fire for L�le. How many people had to die in the wars between the dark country and ours?� he asked.

The orphan's sorrow, and that of those who lost their spouses, and those who lost their loved ones because they passed away in the war, all that fell like a bomb onto Aytekin. Such grief!

His face was lined with mourning. Tears spilled from his eyes onto the floor. I have died�, he said. And the teacher answered: �I didn't understand, please explain!� Aytekin went on: �When I was five years old, a bomb fell onto our house. My mother and father died before my eyes. I cried bitterly. I had to sleep on the road, trying to appease my hunger with sorrow. Let us not learn about war, but about peace! Let us teach people all over the world, without racial and religious barriers and with one language and to be united under one banner.

When people are subjugated by laws they don�t agree to, they turn into mentally sick terrorists and enemies. There are more than a thousand different nations populated with differing ethnic backgrounds. Each one of these nations has to establish a federal democratic republic and form an alliance with the World Community of Democratic Federations. In a three-years turn, voting boxes should be placed in every small federal-democratic republic, in every town, every village and street of the world, and all people of every small federal-democratic republic should elect their presidents, parliamentarians, and town/village mayors, and additionally on the same day all people should vote for the new president and parliamentarians of the World Community of Democratic Federations.

And all parliamentarians the people elected can than with the majority of 51 % change or constitute laws. And regardless of personal standing, chief of state, parliamentarian or plain citizen, everyone has to obey the laws and will be punished equally at non-observance; the law makes no distinction. Every single federal democratic republic shall delegate

In order to protect democracy, there will be new elections for heads of state and military leaders in a three-year turn. Every single federal democratic republic must contribute soldiers, arms and money to the World Community of Federal Democratic Federations in order to build up the strongest army ever and to be able to produce most efficient weaponry. Should production of food and other wares exceed domestic requirements, the surplus is to be given to the World Community. From there it will be distributed to needy republics. In order to protect even every small village, soldiers are sent to defend its borders. And in the case that one federation attacks another or fells democracy, prohibits peaceful religions, doesn�t build prayer houses, forbids the teachings of God�s love or persecutes God-loving people. Persons who prohibit religion will be sent to court and immediately sentenced to maximum penalty. New elections shall be observed. So no small state will have the nerve to start a war, oppress religious communities or fall back into dictatorship.

A world without war and bombs will be like a paradise�, Aytekin concluded his speech. The pupils who were inclined to racism got up, attacking Aytekin. They shouted: �We want to learn about warfare and make war! We will then become the kings of the world. All those do not agree with us, we will eliminate!�

L�le said: �I, too, was five years old when a bomb destroyed our house, killing my mother and father. I was also hungry and slept in the streets. A country will not expand through war. The tears of sorrow of the people will melt a country down, and make it shrink.� At that very moment the war planes of the dark Powers released their bombs over the school, which was completely destroyed. All the racist enemies who had attacked Aytekin died beneath the ruins.

Aytekin and L�le were saved in a hollow space between the concrete slabs. A streak of light could be seen, and Aytekin, digging with his hands, cleared the way towards the light, with L�le following him, and they were finally in the open. People were digging out their dead and injured from the rubble, carrying them towards the ambulances.

Aytekin and L�le also tried to save their friends. Then the surviving teachers and pupils assembled. The head of the school said: �My children, our school has been destroyed, our teachers have died. Those of you whose houses are intact, should go home. And those of you who do not have homes anymore should set off to find shelter.�

Aytekin and L�le were not able to stop looking at each other.

They were searching in each other's eyes for salvation from their desperate plight. Their faces were engraved with lines of sorrow, spelling out their grief. Tears ran from their eyes. �Do not be sad, my dear L�le. On the beach, among the rocks, there is a cavern of love. There is no king in this world with a castle more beautiful than this. Let us now go to the registrar's office and get married� Aytekin said. All lines of sorrow engraved on L�le's face vanished at once.

Her face gleamed like a full moon, her eyes were smiling. Jumping with joy and laughing wildly, L�le leapt up to Aytekin, hugging and kissing him. �I said should my dear Aytekin ask me to marry him, I would be his slave. God has granted me my wish, making it come true! Let us go to the registrar's office right away and get married�, she said.

Arm in arm they went off to be joined in matrimony. And afterwards they moved to the cavern of love on the beach. Waves were breaking on the rocks that formed a wall towards the sea, washing the rocks with their white foam. It sounded as if they were composing a modern song. Aytekin and L�le collected grass from grassy hillocks nearby, building a bed with it in the cavern of love. They undressed and lied down. Their happy laughter echoed from the walls of the cavern of love. Tired and exhausted like two warriors after the battle, they went to sleep.

They were woken by the kiss of the sun on their rosy cheeks. They washed in the sea, playing around in the waves, and then got dressed.

L�le said: �My dearest Aytekin, I am very hungry�. �Dearest L�le, I am also very hungry. Let us try to find something to eat on the site of the kitchen beneath the rubble�, Aytekin answered. They searched the area, but found nothing. Then L�le found an orange. �An orange!� she shouted, running towards Aytekin. She peeled it and split it in two, giving one half to Aytekin. �Dear Aytekin, the one half of this orange represents you, and I am the other half. We will plant the seeds in earth in this flower-pot, and they will be the symbol of our undying love. When they grow, our love will grow, when they bloom, flowers will bloom in our hearts. When they bear their fruit, our children will be born,� L�le said. Then Aytekin and L�le ate the orange and planted the seeds in the flower-pot, and they embraced and kissed. For days afterwards they went without food, surviving on grass from the fields and wild berries they found in the wood. �Should I become president of this country, I will cut down all the trees which do not bear edible fruit, leaving and planting only those that do so. No land will be left uncultivated, and no-one will have to suffer hunger,� Aytekin said.

Chapter 2

The sign above the huge palace door said: KINGDOM OF THE DARK COUNTRY. Above a flag was hanging showing a nuclear bomb above the top of the globe. Before the door two armed soldiers were posted with machine guns in their hands. A limousine advanced and stopped at the palace, generals in highly decorated uniforms got out and went inside through the palace entrance door into a large hall, where several other uniformed generals and military personnel were present. After a while the self-announced king of the dark country, dictator and enemy of God entered the hall, and all generals and military men rose from their seats and shouted with one voice: �Cheers for the king of the world!� Creases of hate and malice had made the king�s face even uglier, with his squinting eyes behind thick glasses goggling like a wolf ready to attack a sheep herd. He hammered his fist on the table before him and grabbed the microphone. �I am the king of the world and ruler of all people! Fake kings have to burn their banners and hand over all their weaponry and bombs to me and follow my command. Whoever does not obey my command, I will erase all their countries with nuclear bombs. All the people shall think as I do and dress like-wise. I will ban all religion and all kill those who strive for democracy and believe in God and disobey my commands. I will swallow the world. All my soldiers will knock on every door in every town or street and recruit all men into war-service.

I will enlarge my army further and within a short time start big wars. I will not leave a stone unturned!� he screamed.

The soldiers, armed with there large machine guns, knocked on every door, went into all houses and took away every men able to carry weapons. The led-away men were shouted at: �You will take part in a big war and fight!� and loaded into trucks. The king�s malicious soldiers screamed with wide opened jaws emitting foul fumes: �Leave for the big war!� and filled the ears and hearts of the recruits with fear of death. With their machine guns they continued to knock on every door and, hence, killed all peace and joy. Insatiable they devoured all the people�s peace and joy. From one house they had dragged and old man emaciated to a skeleton by the arm, screamed �go to war� at him and pushed him towards the truck. But the old man did not want to go with the soldiers. He shouted: �As you can see that people starve to skeletons, the majority of the people are plagued by hunger and sickness, and die. To go to a doctor, we have no money. And if we see a doctor and he prescribes medicine, we have no money to buy it. The king requests high taxes to build his atom bombs. Factories that gave us work have gone bankrupt because of high taxes, and people were left jobless. To find new work is impossible for them. We live with all our family members in a one-room house. To build a reasonably save house we don�t have the funds. And when we build a hut with mud-bricks, the surveyor�s office comes and says: �You erected this without official permission!� and pulls it down again. Many people live in tents, and when they can�t find one, they live in caves. The king should not be occupied with war-fare, but with supplying us with work and food, with construction of factories and hospitals for our sick people, that they receive medicine and return to health. If he doesn�t do this, we will die even before the enemy does. With his nuclear bombs the king will not kill the enemy but us!� he screamed. One soldier screamed in return at the skinny old man: �shut up, you are the enemy!� and hit him over the head with the rifle-butt. Bleeding heavily the old man fell to the ground. His wife came running screaming: �You have killed my husband, you are murderers!� Thereupon the soldiers struck the woman and arrested her.

Aytekin and L�le had strolled through town, when the planes of the dark Powers again released their bombs from above. The town was reduced to a cloud of dust, rising high into the sky. Heads, arms and legs littered the streets, the roads echoed with cries of grief. A woman gathered into her arms the body of her child soaked in blood putting her face close to that of the child. �Murderers! Rabid dogs! You have also savaged my child!� she tearfully cried. Aytekin said: �Don't cry, mother, I will overthrow them all, these murderers and these rabid dogs. I will unite all people, regardless of their religious beliefs and race, brotherly under one banner.

When people are subjugated by laws they don�t agree to, they turn into mentally sick terrorists and enemies. There are more than a thousand different nations populated with differing ethnic backgrounds. Each one of these nations has to establish a federal democratic republic and form an alliance with the World Community of Democratic Federations. I will stop all wars. There will never be wars anymore on this earth. The world will without wars and bombs like a paradise. The people will be happy!� Aytekin pledged, and the woman replied: �My son, you are an angel on earth, sent by God�.

Meanwhile on TV a man with a grim face and joining eyebrows was to be seen. He had the look of a hungry wolf observing lambs. The lines in his face spoke of doom. He was hitting a table with his fist. �I am the president of the dark country. And soon I will be the sovereign of this world. I will forbid all religion. I address the presidents of the countries in the north, west, south, and east: soon you will be following my orders, and for those who do not comply: I will destroy their countries with my atom bombs: I have so many bombs at my disposal that I am able to let all their people perish. One push of the button from me is sufficient to let everything explode�, he said.

Several days later the enemy of God and racist, cruel dictator of the dark country plastered the northern and southern states with atom bombs. A cloud of ashes grew like a tree up into the heavens. From the centres of the cities flames rose as if they were spewing out of a volcano. People were burning up, turning to ashes, to a cloud, rising up high into the sky.