JINHA

AMED – Women, who predicate upon the collective life against capitalist system, have begun their preparation for winter by gathering around the tandoors. Women, who don’t give up the very old culture of tandoors, cook peppers and eggplants on the embers and they put them in plastic bag for winter.

The growing cities and built gigantic buildings along with the development of technology cause separation between people day by day. Women, who predicate upon the collective life since beginning of the world, have continued to protect the communal values even if billions years passed. One of these examples is still continuing in neighborhoods of Diyarbakır. Diyarbakır women have already begun for preparation for winter. They are cook peppers, eggplants on the embers and cook bread in tandoors. As smell of peppers, eggplants and bread is everywhere in the neighborhoods, women give what they cook to passerby. Women told us the collective life and their preparation for winter.

One of these women is Makbule Kaya, she said they were trying to keep their culture alive. Makbule noted that women always lived up to their culture, “Actually, women always resist. We don’t surrender our struggle for survival even if no one sees our labor. Keeping tandoor culture is one of these struggles. In hot days of summer, we cook bread once a week. Our children prefer the bread cooked in tandoors to ready bread.”

Makbule expressed that women gathered once a week to cook bread and they were preparing for winter now. Makbule said, “Meanwhile, we talk about what’s new in our neighborhood and make decisions for our neighborhood. If one has another job to do, we help her. We are like a family. Women actually are the heart of the life.”

Amine Çekik is another woman, who cooks bread and prepare for winter. Amine said, “First we cook bread and then cook peppers and eggplants on the embers. We put the peppers and eggplants in plastic bags for winter. We make our preparation for winter by helping each other.”

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