Hülya Okalin /JINHA

COLEMÊRG - H.M had to leave her home in Federal Kurdistan Region many years ago due to Saddam Hussein's massacre policies on Kurds. H.M. joined to YPS-JIN in Turkey against state forces's war on Kurds.

H.M. was borned in Duhok, a part of Federal Kurdistan Region. She is a witness of Saddam Hussein's oppression. Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006. H.M. immigrated from Iraq to the Yüksekova district of Hakkari in 2000, in order to protect her daughter and four children. H joined self-defense units, YPS-JIN, against the attacks and martial law of Tayyip Erdoğan's palace and state forces. H told us her resistance which started in Duhok and continues in Yüksekova.

H stated that she studied Constructiona Engineering in the Musul city of Iraq. However, she had to leave the school due to abuses against women. She said, "The most difficult job in the world is to live in Iraq. Being women in Iraq means harassment and rape. They think women deserve all kind of ill-treatment. Maenwhile, if you are a kurdish woman, that time you are in the limelight. Saddam's soldierrs harass and rape Kurdish women in the name of "honor". I, as a woman, had really difficult times in Iraq. Soldiers came to school and they could take women into custody. They raped them then they said they hadn't honor and they executed them. I didn't want my daughter live the same. So I had to leave there."

H.M reminded that Saddam Hussein attacked Kurdish people to prove his power to the World. She stated that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does the same to the Kurds. Kurds were killed with chemicals in Iraq and now they are being killed with tanks and artillery in Turkey. "They are trying to show their power to the World by killing the Kurds who want freedom and peace. Turkish state has attacked Kurdish women savagely like Saddam. State forces have killed them and exhibited their bodies. Saddam's soldiers executed Kurdish women in the name of "honor", now Turkish soldiers think that they can discredit Kurdish women by exhibiting their bodies. That isn't power, that's cowardice.

"Kurds want to become free. All states are afraid of the Kurds. That's why they have attacked the Kurds. The Kurds are revolting against this oppression now."

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