Binevş Sarya/JINHA

MANBIJ - Şeyma Qere Ehmed didn’t go out of her home in Manbij for two years in order to not wear black burqa. After the liberation of Manbij, she stepped out of her home. “Now, I am in the free Manbij’s streets, we will do everything to make our freedom permanent because we faced the dark closely,” said Şeyma.

The operation of Commander Martyr Faysal Ebû Leyla that launched to liberate Manbij from Daesh resulted in success on August 15, after 74 days of the operation. Women’s ululation, fired black burqas and smoking cigarettes passed into history during celebration of Manbij’s liberation.

The most women faced the atrocity in the city. Women in the city center said: “Women were stoned, got whipped and kept waiting in the cold or hot weather as a warning or deterrent to others. They teach how women to be slave with their education system.”

Nadiye Ebdul Hemîd, who was forced to take education, said, “They turned all mosques to religious schools after they occupied our city. We had to attend the lessons and we paid for that. On the upstairs, their Şex told us ‘how we should act’. He told us we should wear black burqas to go to the heaven and never object to men. I couldn’t close my face due to my sickness; however, they forced me to close my face. I went to a doctor and received a report for that but they didn’t believe me. Every day, I had to wear that burqa as a shroud to not be tortured.

“There are many colors in the world, why God bans the colors created by him? Those who put us in the black burqas wanted to create their slaves. Women were imprisoned in black shroud in Manbij. We, as women, remember those days as nightmares and we continue our struggle to not lose these bright days anymore.”

Şeyma Qere Ehmed is another woman, she resisted against the occupation and impositions of gangs in different way. She said, “I didn’t go out in order to not wear a black burqa. They arrested me for not going to their school and tortured me. I locked myself in home because I didn’t want their education and wear black burqa. There were beheaded people in the streets and I didn’t want to see the atrocity of gangs. I stepped out when Manbij was liberated. Now, I am in the free Manbij’s streets, we will do everything to make our freedom permanent because we faced the dark closely.”

(fk/gd)