Medine Mamedoğlu/JINHA

AMED – Mevlide Yılmaz had to leave her home following the resistance began on December last year. She comes to the street where curfew has been imposed, and watches her home from there; she is waiting for the day when she returns to Sur.

The historic resistance, which continued for 103 days in the Sur district of Diyarbakır, has become unforgettable for many people. One of these people is Mevlide Yılmaz. Mevlide had to leave her home in the Savaş Neighborhood after the resistance, which began on December, 2015, ended. Mevlide still cannot enter the street of her home due to the curfew imposed. She watches her home from high buildings in the Alipaşa Neighborhood every day.

Mevlüde showed us how the diggers are close to her home with finger and said, “My home is just behind the diggers. I have watched the destruction here for months. Of course, I know my home’s turn will come. Now, I am watching my undamaged home; however, it will be destroyed tomorrow. They are bringing down all homes but they don’t know that we won’t leave Sur and we will return there.

“I will never forget the youth’s pain and faces even if ages pass. I am watching the demolished homes, I wish all young people were alive now and we didn’t have anything more. I am thinking how to enter Sur when the siege is lifted. There are the bloods of the youth in every street; we will feel them even if they bring down everything in ruin.”

Mevlide is waiting for the day when she returns to Sur in order to keep her word to the youth. She said, “I gave the youth my word and I will return to Sur. The state thinks that this destruction will never end and the situation will be same when the siege is lifted. They put block stones at the entrance of every street. We are suffering when we cannot enter our streets. They should lift the ban immediately.”

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