JINHA

AMED – A week after 17-year-old Rozerin Çukur was slain in the Sur district of Diyarbakır, her body has still not been retrieved. Rozerin’s friends have made a statement calling for an end to the attacks that killed her, and permission for her family to retrieve her body.

For a month and a half, police and soldiers have maintained a blockade of the Sur district of Diyarbakır. On January 8, 17-year-old high school student Rozerin Çukur was killed by state forces. Rozerin’s friends have made a statement condemning ongoing attacks on Sur and the fact that the state has still not allowed her family to retrieve her body.

“Despite the fact that Rozerin was 17 years old, she was a young woman who tried to understand and give meaning to life,” Rozerin’s friends said. They called Rozerin’s killing an attack on a patriotic person, faithful to the streets and the people who had produced free women.

“We are enraged with everyone and everything that took Rozerin from this life,” the statement continued. “We don’t want the Rozerins of the world to die,but a future as bright as Rozerin’s ideas and dreams. We will break through this darkness, destroy these wars and emerge into the light.”

The statement ended by calling for the tactics of annihilation being used in Kurdistan and for the dead bodies of the lost to be given to their families.

“We will not watch while the world is dragged into darkness,” said the statement. “We will never forget Rozerin; if we forget her, our world and our souls alike will be left in darkness.”

(tt/gc/cm)