You have Toledo, Sur is ours! * …And now these historical lands of thousands years are vitalizing. Fruitfulness story is being written over again. The fortresses that witness the history will go to stand up in front of Tigris with all their majesties. Sur will open its doors with all its stature. This precious […]
Behind the closed doors of Cizre I am among the destruction of Cizre. A youngster from Cizre came to me and said “Dear Nurcan, all you see is what you can see about Cizre, but there is something worse than this about what you can’t see or despite seeing it, not to writing about Cizre. […]
Nurcan Baysal: being a Yazidi means to be destined for massacre 1 Working for NGOs for years, Nurcan Baysal wrote a book for giving voice to women and not letting that horrible massacre to be forgotten. “73rd Decree” (“Ezidiler: 73. Ferman Katliam ve Kurtuluş”) is heavy, but it is nothing compared to what women, men […]
Cizre, don’t forgive us! NURCAN BAYSAL 17 February 2016 Everything is happening before our very eyes! The Kurdish cities of Turkey have been under an unlawful siege and curfew for months. Today, it has been 49 days for Cizre and 61 days for Diyarbakir-Surici since the curfew was declared. People suffer from lack of water, and […]
“East issue”of Turkey begins now, actually! The atrocity in Cizre, we have watched live day by day, lasts almost more than a month. Today, about more than a hundred people from Cizre, most of them less than 20 years old and who were alive one or two weeks ago are dead now. People who were […]
Can the Kurdish question be settled by killing people in Sur? We are in Surici district with Lale Mansur, Zeynep Tanbay, Ferhat Tunc, Aysegul Devecioglu, Bahri Belen and Dilek Gokçin who came from Istanbul today. We meet Sibel Yigitalp, the HDP Diyarbakir deputy who is on constant watch in Sur. Ms. Yigitalp is able to […]