SaryaGözüoğlu –MizginTabu / JINHA

RIHA (URFA) – Families, who migrated from Sêrêkanîyê to Viranşehir, told that El Nusra turned to Sêrêkanîyê to be a blood bath. They talked about their families and days with full of sufferings. Families told that they are uncomfortableconscientiously. They stated “Our relatives are dying in Rojava, however we cannot go up to them. This is prohibited by tinny wire fence.”

From 2011 now on there is a civil war in Syria. With this war, Kurdish people from Rojava, who are for years struggling for their democratic autonomy, started to struggle against the massacres. Kurdish people were exposed to terrible massacres held by El Nusra while suggesting a democratic life with all Armenians, Assyrians and Arabs. Families who had to migrate from Sêrêkanîyê to Viranşehir because of the massacres held by El Nusra from Sêrêkanîyê to whole Rojava talked about massacres of El Nusra and the lives destroyed by El Nusra.

“We left our families behind”

Gülistan who left her mother and father and lots of relatives in Rojava lives more or less one year apart from her family. She stated “When I first came, I thought that I will go back immediately, but it didn’t happen. It has been almost a year but there is still a war in my country. And now there is El Nusra. They are trying to destroy Rojava Revolution by raping women in Rojava. El Nusra came to Syria just because to stand against Kurds and to destroy us. Half of the family is here and the other half is in Rojava. Our lives run between borders.” She told that before coming from Rojava she was set at ease because of going up to Kurds in Turkey, but she stated that “However, it did not go that way. When I came here, I saw that everything is very different. I am speaking Kurdish, but only very little people can understand me. Kurds in here have been assimilated. I feel like I am in a different country; however borders between us are just artificial. We are brothers and sisters, but everybody seems like has forgotten this.”

“The things I couldn’t say hurts deep inside me”

“We want go back immediately where we are used to live” says Gülistan and adds that the educational style of Turkey and Rojava in which children would not have had opportunity to go school is so different. She says “Our lives have been changed a lot with this war. Parents have been shocked. On the one side we want to stay in our land, on the other hand we have the responsibility to protect our children. We were riding away from one place to other just because of our children. I won’t forgive myself if something happens to my children. However in here, our children became depressed. In Rojava, we were pretending like everything is okay even there was a war, but when we came here I saw my children as getting stuck between two languages which really hurts. Sufferings of war are enormous. I heard my father death but I couldn’t go there. There was just a border with tinny wire fence between us. That border prevented me to see my father. I have a lot to say but I cannot. The things I couldn’t say hurts deep inside me.” She pointed out that El Nusra has being plundered homes and that also happened to her house, so she does not have any place to go in Rojava. She adds “Even so, the important thing is life; all other things can be taken back but not deaths.”

“Our world and dreams are in our country where we were born and lived”

A family member Ali says that they left all of their dreams about life in Rojava. He says the responsibility of having children led him to migrate. He continued “Serekani was the harsh place. We forced to leave as mobs came and these mobs plundered our houses. While mobs were plundering our houses, Esad regime was bombing everywhere.” Ali states that thanks to YPG’s fighters, El Nusra failed. Ali said, “YPG youth has a serious success. The war in Serekaniye was very serious; however, YPG fighters are also serious in their struggles. Thanks to that El Nusra failed. Even though we came here, after that struggle we want to go back. We are living with Kurds here, but we missed the pace we were born and grew up. We are always wondering what is happening there. I hope we will go back as soon as possible.”

“We feel offended because of Kurds who speak Turkish”

Ali, who states that they are conscientiously feeling bad and want to go back, says “We came here because of women and children, but there are lots of surviving women and children. If anyone came, who would fight there? For that reason we feel guilty conscientiously. Yet we did not come here easily. We came here in the way between borders illegally.” He put into words that Serêkanîyê is strategically important for El Nusra. He said “When we came here, we thought that we will be staying for a few day to make our country more free then we will go. A couple of days later regime was come in. Warcrafts bombed the city and then war began. That’s why we couldn’t go back. There are big differences between the life in Rojava and here that you cannot even compare them. The most important problem in here is everybody is speaking Turkish here. We are having troubles because of this issue. We will go back to our country anyway but the thing is that we feel offended because of Kurds who only speak Turkish.”

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