community/life
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“We chose to resist not mourn,” says Halise Bilir, who lost her two sons
Halise Bilir, who lost her two sons in two years, has struggled for peace so that other mothers will not suffer from losing their children. “All mothers should speak out and join hands. We have suffered a lot, but we chose to resist not mourn. We defend life against war, we struggle for peace.”
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“Children knowing their mother tongue are more successful”
Mesopotamia Language and Culture Research Association (MED-DER) Co-chair Şilan Elmas Kan thinks children should learn their mother tongue, “Children knowing their mother tongue are more successful.”
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She gives hope to thousands of people
Çiğdem Kuzucu lost her only child Erdi Berkay Gülmez to leukemia years ago. Now she gives hope to thousands of people by forming a group called “Can You Be One of 1000 Volunteers” on social media to draw attention to adult patients with leukemia and to help countless patients waiting for transplantation waiting for stem cells transplantation.
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"We will not leave our village even if we have to create life out of death"
Husa Ehmed, who has lived in the Til El-Leben village since her childhood, noted that her village has been under the Turkish bombardment for a long time, “I demand the Turkish state be tried for its crimes against civilians and animals. I demand justice. We will not leave our village even if we have to create life out of death.”
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"I haven't held my son’s hands or hugged him for a year”
Prison conditions in Turkey have been worsening for years but after the Covid-19 pandemic the conditions have become worse. “Contact visits haven’t been allowed due to the pandemic. I haven’t held my son’s hands or hugged him for a year. This is the worst thing for a mother,” said Mihan Turan, whose son has been held in a prison.
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“Jineology should spread in the Middle East”
Referring to the importance of Jineology for Middle Eastern women, Nujin Yusif, a member of the Academy of Jineology in the Middle East, called for the spread of Jineology in the Middle East so that women can build a common life.
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“Why nothing is done to stop femicides?”
Sociologist Feryal Saygılıgil spoke to NuJINHA about many issues such as why people just watch femicides and the reflections of femicides on social media platforms in Turkey. “Femicides become ordinary in public spaces. We may be from different classes and have different colors but we are oppressed in the same way. We are all victims of this system.”
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“This world is sinful, this world is responsible for what happened to us,” says Yazidi woman Ezda
Yazidis faced genocide committed by ISIS on August 3, 2014, in front of the whole world. Ezda was just 13 years old when ISIS attacked them. She and her family members were taken captive by ISIS. She faced the tyranny of ISIS; she was tortured and raped. “What I faced wasn’t my fault. They took me when I was a child playing games with my friends. I am not responsible for what happened to me. This world is sinful; this world is responsible for what happened to us. We faced many things that cannot be explained with words,” Ezda said.
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“The name of my story must be Çiyayê Şengal”
Centuries ago, the Yazidis settled in an area located between the Ninova plain and the Shengal mountains. They live in Shengal’s 20 towns, two districts, and hundreds of villages. Yazidis, Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds live together in settlements located between Shengal and Tilafer. Those who lost their loved ones in these areas live with everlasting mourning. The genocide against them never ends and the mass graves close to them tear their heart out. 81 mass graves surround you wherever you go…
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Teacher of school bombed by Turkey: “This crime should not go unpunished”
The primary school of Til Temir’s Gozeliyê village was renovated and opened again for the 2020-2021 academic year with the efforts of the villagers for their children. But Turkish airstrike shelled the school on June 26. Neda Silêman, the teacher of the school, called on the international courts to not allow this crime to go unpunished.
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“We will never forget what they did to women,” says Suham who witnessed ISIS tyranny
Suham was abducted by ISIS with her grandmother when ISIS attacked Shengal in 2014. She now tries to hold on to life again by working with her father at their shoe shop. “We will never forget what Daesh did to me and women but we will stand firm together,” said Suham, who faced ISIS tyranny.
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Iraq: 276 suspicious deaths of women recorded as “suicide” in 2020
The rate of suicide cases is increasing in Iraq; a total of 2, 197 suicide cases were recorded between 2017 and 2020. 386 men committed suicide in 2020 while this number was 276 for women, say official reports. Former member of the Human Rights Commission and women's rights activist Büşra al-Ubeydi drew attention to the suspicious deaths of women recorded as suicide in the country.
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Story of Kudret Fendik who resists throughout her life
Kudret Fendik is only one of the Kurdish women, who have faced war, displacement and death. She never bows down before anyone and she has raised her nine children alone.
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Pakistani Khadija Al Kubra wears men's clothes every day for her siblings
According to a study conducted in Pakistan on the gender of drivers, 80 percent of drivers are men. 17-year-old Khadija El Kubra wears men’s clothes to take her siblings to school safely every day.
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Report on Afghan women by AIHRC
191 people lost their lives and 1,059 people were injured in July due to conflicts in Afghanistan, according to the report released by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). The report also says that 78, 911 families were forcibly displaced in July.
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Barra Lavi leads boycott of Israeli products in Gaza
Before the last Israeli attack on Gaza, Palestinians bought Israeli products and asked people, “Do you know this is an Israeli product?” to boycott Israeli products after Baraa Lavi and a group of people launched a boycott Israel campaign. Gaza is the second place which buys the products of Israel the most after the USA and the people of Gaza slowly learn that.
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Genocide against Êzidîs: “I felt like I grew up in a day”
ISIS attacked Shengal on August 3, 2014, and atrociously killed children, elders, women, and men in front of everyone. ISIS abducted thousands of women and children and sold them in slave markets. Sibalı Fexriye Kemal was just 12 years old when ISIS attacked Êzidîs. She remembers everything as if it happened only yesterday; running people, fired bullets, killed people, hunger, thirst, extreme heat… “Yes, Daesh took my childhood, my friends, and most importantly my mother from me. Daesh left genocide in my memory that I will never forget through all my life. Êzidî children and all children in the world should live freely from now on. Don’t take childhood from the children…”
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"Women’s organizations have a great responsibility to reveal suspicious deaths of women"
Rosa Women’s Association member drew attention to suspicious deaths of women disguised as “suicide”, “The judiciary system has a great responsibility to reveal suspicious deaths of women; however, the courts rule these deaths as “suicide” and close these cases. The system stands with men, not with women.”
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Women to meet leaders of tribes to stop femicides
Women continue to work to stop increasing femicides in Hasekê. Members of the Kongreye Star Coordination in Hasekê will meet the leaders of the tribes and communities to end femicides in the city.
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Victims of robbery, plunder in Idlib: Women
War itself is plunder. It brings its plundering culture into the territory where it takes place. While looting and plundering crimes increase in the Syrian city of Idlib, the biggest victims are women; their houses are raided, their workplaces are plundered, and some of them are kidnapped, robbed, and killed. The perpetrators of these crimes haven’t been arrested yet.