SIRNAK - Emine Çağırga, the mother of 10-year-old Cemile Çağırga, who was killed during the curfews and whose body was kept in the freezer because the soldiers were firing at Cemile's family when they tried to go out to bury  the body, said that she welcomed Mother's Day with sadness and said, "Those who told my daughter was a terrorist are attacking Bashur today."

 

The second Sunday of May is celebrated as Mother's Day. Although it is often known as a day celebrated with colorful flowers and gifts, Kurdish mothers welcome Mother's Day a little more bitterly every year. Most mothers who have lost their children either visit their children's graves or spend the day alone at home with their children's memories. The main demand of Kurdish mothers, who voice their demands for peace more loudly today, is to provide an environment of peace where they can hug their children.

 

After the AKP ended the peace process and started a wave of destruction with the curfews it declared in the Kurdish cities, dozens have died. Emine Çağırga, mother of 10-year-old Cemile Çağırga who was killed with a police bullet in Cizre on September 4, 2015 while she was in front of the door of her house, has been missing her daughter for 7 years.

 

STATE OPPRESSION

 

Emine Çağırga remembered with the photos of her freezer in which she put her daughter to stop the decay because the soldiers were firing at them every time they tried to go out of the house to bury her daughter, was not going through such pain for the first time in her life. Emine Çağırga who was born in a village in Cizre had to move to Siirt as a result of state oppression during the 1980's. Staying there for 5 years, the family was forced into migration again. However the pressures of the state continues and the village she was born in was burned to the ground by the soldiers in 1993. 

 

TWO OF HER DAUGHTERS KILLED IN THE SAME HOUSE

 

While they were living in Cizre, Emine Çağırga lost her 7-year-old daughter and 7 people from her family during the attacks of the state forces. Emine Çağırga survived that attack wounded. 23 years after this carnage, her 10-year-old daughter Cemile Çağırga was killed by a sniper in the front yard of the same house.

 

GRIEF CONTINUES ON MOTHER'S DAY

 

Feeling the same grief in her heart once again on this mother's day, Emine Çağırga celebrated the mother's day of all mothers. Çağırga said: "We want this to be the day of peace and freedom. We want a free and peaceful life where the tears of mothers stops. We are going through this day without our children. Some are dead and some are in prison. We want the deaths to stop. Enough is enough. Cemile was just a child and she was killed by a sniper. Was my daughter a 'terrorist'? She was just a child and she was slaughtered. And the government declared my daughter a 'terrorist'. What do they want from the Kurds? We never submitted to this oppression. Our struggle will continue. Nothing changed in the past seven years. I am still grieving for my daughter. I would never wish the pain of losing a child to any mother.."

    

'THE SAME PEOPLE ARE KILLING THE CHILDREN IN BASHUR TODAY'

 

Stating that those who declared the children who were killed 'terrorists' are killing the children in the Federated Kurdistan Region today, Çağırga said: "Those who told my daughter was a terrorist are attacking Bashur today and invading those lands. Who is the real terrorist? We want peace not war. Erdoğan claims whomever he kills are terrorists."

 

'WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE BETRAYEL OF BARZANİ'

 

Protesting the cooperation of KDP with Turkey, Çağırga said: "We will never forget the betrayel of Barzani. Turkish state is our enemy and we are resisting against it. But Barzani himself is Kurdish. How can they partner with Turkey in crimes against the Kurds?As the mothers, our demand from Barzani is that he must immediately end this betrayel. We, the mothers are calling for peace in four parts of Kurdistan."