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Memed Aksoy was born in Mereş in northern Kurdistan and later moved to the capital of capitalism, to England.
As a Kurd, an Alevi, and later an ethic minority, Memed carried the scars of a genocide and a lost identity. His entire life was devoted to the struggle against assimilation, against eventually accepting the curse on his motherland – as if it was fate. He refused to deteriorate under the order of lifelessness. He rejected to surrender to a system of brutality.
Throughout his life, Memed was known to be a caring personality who held values of community and justice very close. He spent much of his life within the system, protesting against the diseases being spread by it and the implications which this had on his homeland.
Tirelessly, Memed spoke to everyone about the motherland, young or old, national or international. But while educating and informing everyone who crossed his path about the Kurdish struggle, he understood that he could only truly devote himself to his cause by refusing to be a part of the system trying to destroy it. He understood that as a Kurd who had been exiled to Europe, nothing would make up for the emptiness of not belonging to an identity, to the coldness of liberal modernity.
As the bombs of hellhounds pounded his country, his heart could barely be contained by the cages which surrounded it. He had heard the whisper of freedom calling. On a June morning, Memed packed 32 years into his heart and return to his country. Here, Memed would become Firaz Dag and fight with the weapon he was most familiar with… with his camera. He would follow in the steps of Martyr Firaz and Martyr Halil Dag who walked the march of freedom before him.
NC// Firaz Dag
