Magnum Photosのインスタグラム(magnumphotos) - 3月22日 19時40分

Photo by #MoisesSaman - Shukran Koc, 23, prays by the grave of her sister in #Hakkari, southeastern #Turkey. Her sister, who went by the nom de guerre Zilan Hakkari, was a #PKK#guerrilla for six years. Zilan was one of 36 PKK guerrilla killed in the #KazanValley of #Cukurca in 2011 in a Turkish military attack on the PKK. Shukran says her sister died in a chemical weapons attack, and other activists at the time said that the guerrillas’ bodies bore signs of chemical weapons (Turkey denied the allegations). #Cukurca, strategically located near the border with #Iraqi #Kurdistan, – where the PKK maintains its operational bases – witnessed some of the worst fighting between the PKK and the military throughout the war, which has claimed over 40,000 lives, mostly Kurds, since 1984. During the worst years of the conflict, the Turkish military scorched hundreds of Kurdish villages, tortured, killed and disappeared thousands of Kurdish activists, and repressed expressions of Kurdish cultural and linguistic identity. The PKK kidnapped and killed Turkish civilians and Kurds they accused of collaborating with the state, carried out suicide bombings in urban areas (mostly using female suicide bombers), and recruited child soldiers.

Zilan, who never went to school, was active in the Kurdish national movement, and ended up in prison for her political activities. She was let go after one year, her trial pending. One week after coming home, she told her family she was going on a picnic and never returned. “The next time I saw her was when they brought her body home,” says Shukran. When Zilan died, Shukran’s brother, who came to be known by the nom de guerre Dilges Zilan, left home for the mountains to join the PKK. He was fourteen years old. Shukran and her family have not seen him since, but they found out by watching PKK affiliated television that he is now fighting in #Sinjar in #Iraq. #newroz2015

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