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AMED – District residents reach to not lifting the “curfew” despite the Department of the Interior announced that "Operation was ended" after attacks carried out in the Sur district of Diyarbakır for months. “They’re trying to make us forget Sur by not opening the district. I’ll go to sur the day curfew is lifted and I’ll put up a tent on the land where my home is pulled down.” said Fatma Çevik one of district residents.

“Curfew” hasn’t been lifted in the Sur district of Diyarbakır for more than five months. The Department of the Interior announced that "Operation was ended" in the town at the beginning of the month of March, however, the curfew has been imposed on the district. Meanwhile, the trucks have thrown the debris in the town to the Tigris River. As the people's bodies' parts have been found under the debris, the people still ask what the state does in the district and they reach to the implementation. “They torn down our homes and now they don’t show us our homes.” said Sur people and they want to learn what is going on.

60-year-old Fatma Çevik has been displaced from banned Sur’s Fatihpaşa neighborhood to the Şehitlik neighborhood of Diyarbakır. Fatma said, “Our doors were opened everytime. We got together with our neighbors in our yard-type houses. We had very beautiful days there. We passed every day in the mood of wedding. We don’t have neighbors and no ones come to get together here. If you had needed something in Sur, you could take them from your neighbors. The state seizes our conscience by taking Sur from us. We didn’t leave Sur even if we are rich. The state understood that and it declared war in Sur. If the people told me they would give me a beautiful house in rich neighborhood, again I wouldn’t leave Sur. I spent there my youth, my hair got grey there. I left Sur for our children not due to fear. I wanted to return there after I got my children out of there. However, they didn’t allow me.

“I lived in Sur for 40 years. 40 years means a life. Sur is my past. The house I am staying now is a prison for me. I often come to Sur to breathe. If someone enters Sur now I will be the second.”

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