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ŞIRNEX - People's Council co-chair Mehmet Tunç is a symbol of Cizre’s resistance. His 17-year-old daughter Nalin Tunç sent a letter about her father.

For 79 days, martial law under the name of “curfew” had been imposed in the Cizre district of Şırnak. People's Council co-chair Mehmet Tunç was massacred in a basement with many people. The basement is known as “Basement of savagery”. Metmet Tunç’s daughter Nalin Tunç wrote a letter after her father was massacred. Her father had said “Be proud of us”. Nalin wrote this sentence in her letter and she wrote; “We are proud of you”. She wrote her letter to all Kurdish people. The letter reads;

“My name is Nalin. I am daughter of Mehmet Tunç who was massacred in the basement of savagery. My father was a folk hero. The oppression and slavery have been imposed on the Kurds for centuries. My father tried to end the oppression and slavery for next generation. And, I believe that he managed that. My father resisted and fight to his last breath. I am proud of him. My father suffered in basement of savagery. He resisted in the basement for 50 days without food and water. He didn’t surrender and he resisted. My father told us his legacy when we talked him last time. He said, “If Turkish state massacres us, who kept silent against this persecution mustn’t attend our funeral.

"After my father was massacred in the basement, I made a decision. I will continue the struggle which my father sacrificed his life for. And I will never surrender. I call on the Kurds to rise to prevent the massacre which was carried out in Cizre, is carried out in Sur, Nusaybin and İdil. I experienced this pain, we don’t want other people have the same. We refer the people who gave us a hard time to God. I hadn’t seen my father for three months. I saw his buried body. I can hear my father last sentences. “We didn’t surrender, we resisted. Be proud of us.

“I am proud of my father.”

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