I will never forget today. 16th February 2016. The day we suspected was coming for a long time, the main reason that we left our home, İdil is going under curfew. I will never forget the moment in which I was told that at 11pm tonight, the town I once called home would be going under an indefinite curfew.
Then I started seeing the pictures and videos of seemingly endless amounts of tanks being driven into the town. Anyone would think that they were going to war with another country, a huge army, rather than civilians and ill equipped teenagers.
In my mind’s eye I can see our apartment block standing there, towering over the surrounding houses. I can picture us all sat in that garden, laughing and joking whilst the children run freely around us. Now I imagine it to be quiet, deserted, nothing more lively than your average ghost town.
Most of my husband’s immediate family has already managed to leave İdil, but a few members of our close family, large amounts of relatives and family friends remain. There’s no telling what will happen in İdil in the upcoming months. I just pray that İdil will not be destroyed in the same manner that Cizre has. After a long curfew in Cizre, which cost 100s of civilians their lives, the town is nothing but a scene of devastation and destruction. I hope that our house will not become a bullet punctured shell, completely devoid of the happy memories it once was home to.
I know that some may find some of the topics that I talk about controversial, some people may not agree with some of the things I say, the Turkish-Kurdish conflict is one that stirs strong emotions and opinions in most people. I know that what I write is the truth, I have no doubt that there are many who will agree with me and many who will not.
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