JINHA

MÊRDÎN - Women have continued their visits to Mardin's Nusaybin district after 24-hour curfew lasted 134 days was lifted partly in the town. Halfeti women stated that they came to Nusaybin to destroy artificial borders and wire braids surrounded six neighborhoods.

After 24-hour curfew had been imposed in Mardin's Nusaybin district for five months, the curfew has been lifted partly. People have begun to rebuild their life after lifting of curfew partly. As women's solidarity visits have continued, women, who came from Urfa's Halfeti district to Nusaybin, said that they came to Nusaybin to destroy the artificial borders and wire braids surrounded six neighborhoods. One of these women is Fatma Korkmaz, co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Halfeti. Fatma said, "We came here to visit families. They opened the locked doors for us. They were very happy to see us. We have witnessed the resistance of Nusaybin people. They didn't leave their homes despite bombs. They told us that, 'We will not leave our homes until we die. We will not live in other places by leaving our homeland and villages. Nusaybin is our home, lands and country.' When they showed us the pieces of bombs hit their homes."

"People try to see their homes through the wires," said Fatma and noted that there are many houses without any damage behind the wire braids; however, diggers have blown down all houses. Fatma said, "I am calling to all women and youth around the world; "Come here and see with your eyes what happened here. Try to do your best for these people. Let's destroy the borders by joining our hands.' We can build homes by using stones or soil. We can rebuild 'Nisêbîna rengîn'. Kurdistan is a country without borders. We want to destroy the borders here."

One of the delegates of the Democratic Society Congress Naime Bayram underlined that they came to Nusaybin to give Nusaybin people moral and support them. Naime said, "We are here to feel what our people faced. Everyone has been displaced and they have lived in tents. Families said, 'We will not leave our homes, we will resist to the end," when we visited them."

Peace Mothers member Ayşe Büyükertaş stated that they came to Nusaybin to put an end the ongoing repression and said, "We'll rebuild our people's homes together. We'll rise against the state's system. We'll destroy that system. They attack us because they are afraid of Kurdish people."

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