Some Notes for the Warmongers In the last couple of weeks, İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association) Diyarbakır Branch has published an important report on human rights violations between the dates July 24, 2015 and July 24, 2017, which attests to the atrocities faced by our society in numbers. According to this report, in the […]
Is Şırnak one of the 81 cities of Turkey? I am in Şırnak, one of the Kurdish cities that was under curfew for 8 months, between 14 March-14 November 2016 . 70% of the city has been totally destroyed. 8 of the city’s 12 districts do not exist anymore. The streets that I walked on […]
I am like Diyarbakır: Grieving, furious, resentful but still, I stand. Last Friday 370 civil society organizations were closed by the government under the allegation of supporting terrorist groups. 50 of these organizations are based in Diyarbakir, in my city. There are associations that support the families who lost their houses during the curfews or […]
Aren’t we going to question “why did these 1552 people die”? The Diyarbakır Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has just released a new report, publishing the results of the last year war between the Turkish government and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). According to İHD’s report, between 24 July 2015-24 July 2016, 1552 people […]
My Speech on Yazidi Women I met her on a dark night, in Baadre, a Yazidi village, on the border of Mosul, in Iraq. It was the beginning of 2015. She was staying with other women who were saved from Islamic State, ISIS. Baadre was one of the biggest Yazidi village in South Kurdistan. The […]