From the Book THAT DAY: The “Wise People” come to Kavar Today is the fifteenth of May 2013. I set out from Tavan to Çorsin just before noon. Today we have important guests. I get to Çorsin just after the Wise People Committee is about to arrive at the villages. Clearly the Wise People are not […]
Author: Nurcan Baysal
Yazidis: “Kurds have protected us; if we are going to die, we will die together” “We are waiting for our fate” We wake up to a hot day. Fall has not arrived to Silopi as of yet. With its unpaved roads and non-working trucks left on the sides of the roads, Silopi seems to me […]
Yazidis are killed by saying“La İlahe İllallah”[1] Most of the Yazidis who came to Diyarbakır are staying as guests on property belonging to the Yenişehir Municipality, which is on the way to Mardin. The site is 10-15 kilometers away from the city center, and known among locals as the picnic site. A smaller group of […]
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Yazidis: 74th Firman
Yazidis: 74thFirman[1] “We were killed not only by ISIS, but also by our neighbors” This is the first time I am going to Iraqi Kurdistan by car. We get to the border very easily; there is no traffic. My friend coming with me says before the attacks of ISIS, there were long queues of trucks, […]
‘We are in need of a handful of water; if you cannot do anything else, at least send us a handful of water’ After Diyarbakır’s burning hot days, I am on a long-awaited vacation with my children. Though, my plan was to pass these days without my phone and computer, our holiday soured as ISIS […]
Where are the Kurds? They went up to the mountains. Where is the mountain? The state bombed…[1] One of the basic topics on the Twitter timeline on May 1st was this: “Where are the Kurds?” When some Turks who were on the streets on May 1st International Workers Day became subject to pepper gas and […]