JINHA

MÊRDÎN -Many families, who were neighbors to resistance neighborhoods in Nusaybin, supported the resistance by leaving the lights on and taking to streets.

As "24-hour curfew" has been imposed in Mardin's Nusaybin district since March 14, Nusaybin people have continued the resistance by not leaving their lands. As the ban has been lifted in the day on July 25, the ban has continued in half of the town. The banned neighborhoods have been encircled with barbed wire by state forces. You can see the destruction and pillage in the neighborhoods from far away. Families don't leave the town even if their homes have been demolished and burned.

Fatime Ertaş, who lives in Devrim Neighborhood, is one of the women those who don't leave their homes. Fatime stayed at her home for months during the curfew, she told that, "We left our home when police entered our home. I had to leave my home only 20 days. I was afraid of sound of tanks and bombs but I didn't leave my home."

Fatime stated that eight times "curfew" have been declared in Nusaybin: "I couldn't sleep at night due to the sound of bombs. Some nights, police asked us to turn off our lights. The state forced me to leave my home on the first day of curfew; however, I returned to Nusaybin to my home 20 days later. We were afraid of the sound of tanks and bombs; we closed our ears with our hands, we didn't talk to each other. I couldn't to look at from windows when they came to demolish and burn the houses."

Fatime told us that they didn't turn off the lights and take to the streets to support Nusaybin resistance.

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