URFA – The mother of People’s Leader Abdullah Ûcalan Ûveyş xwecalan died on April 11, 1993 in Adana. The People’s Leader, stating that Mother Uveyş is the mother of the uprising, draws attention to this in her analysis of 11 April 1994 and states that the right to motherhood can only be granted through a difficult struggle.
On the anniversary of the death of her son Mehmet Ocalan, he spoke to our agency about it.
Mehmet wihacalan spoke about Mother Ûveyş as follows:
“When a person reaches the age of two or three, he remembers a little about the life he lived with his mother. It was the same with my mother. My mother’s life was difficult. At a certain time, maybe her daughters were at home with her, her sons were with her. We kept animals then, we had sheep, cows, goats and a very small piece of land.
My father plowed the land. But my mother was against it, she wanted everything to be the way she wanted, everything to be done the way she wanted. I mean, she was really like that. Of course, her life went on up to a point like that. When we were nine or ten years old, we fed the animals; We used to take sheep, goats and cows to pasture. That was the way life went. I remember well, she used to tell us, “they don’t stay put like a hot fire”.
I and the chairman were born one after the other. So there was a year and a half, two years back and forth between us. The chairman was a traveler. He went out to the countryside, looking for birds, looking for other animals. He loved nature very much. My mother was concerned. She said, “My children go out to the country, there are animals, like snakes, there are many things that hurt them, so something will happen to them.” I had two slightly older sisters, Gülsüm and Havva. Fatma was younger then. My father and mother sent Gülsüm and Havva to get us, saying, “Where are they, you should find them and bring them.” I remember; One day they came and brought us home and my mother found that she was right. She said, “You don’t stop, I can only keep you in the basement,” and she led us into the basement and locked the door behind us. We had a place near the village where we sifted in a field near the village after we harvested the wheat. Grains, wheat, lentils, barley and vetches were grown. In the past there were no machines, technical possibilities like today. Vegetable products were sieved with a sieve and ground by hand. We were locked in the cellar while my mother went and took care of the work. There was nothing we could do. We had a neighbor, he was an orphan, one of our relatives had no children, he would take him in and raise him.
The neighbor came and opened the door, we came out of the basement. Then my mother came home. That’s how my mother’s life was. After a while, her life became heavier. How did this burden start? When the chairman started the freedom struggle, he left my mother’s side. Her other son Osman also left her. I was alone with her. When a woman is separated from her children, when she is separated from them, it becomes very difficult for her. It was very difficult for my mother. “Will I be able to see my children before I die?” she said. Recently, I was left with her as her only son. At that time there was the youth movement and many events were taking place. Whenever an incident happened in Halfeti, she always prevented me from going. When I was away, she was alone. Her children were not with her. Because of this, she got into trouble. The pressure from the government on us was too great. The last moments of her life were very difficult, very difficult.
The coup period of Kenan Evren on September 12 was even more difficult. At that time, we could not go to our neighbors. When we went, they didn’t give us a place, saying, “You have gone against the state, the state is putting all kinds of pressure on you, if they see you in our house, they will put pressure on us.” That’s how it was at that time. The government put a lot of pressure on us. The state made a deal with us in 1986 and said, “Either we destroy you or you get out of here.” He banished us unofficially. That was very difficult for my mother. It is very difficult when you are exiled from the country where you spent your childhood, where you spent your life, where you gave birth to children and where you live. They exiled us to Adana. We stayed there only for a short time. There were also great obstacles. Her hometown was always in her mind. She wanted to go back to her hometown. When she returned to her hometown, the situation in the country was very bad. Politically, the chairman was on the agenda. And her two children were not with her. “Will I ever see my children? “, she used to say. That’s how she lived her life. It was a very difficult life. I can explain it briefly like this.
It goes on like this. The powerful exert both physical and political pressure on the powerless. That’s how it was in those days. There were powerless, poor children and there were strong-willed, powerful children who oppressed weak children. The chairman would also direct these oppressed children, he had such a style. He always protected the oppressed children. That’s how he spent his childhood. He would never accept oppression. Everyone knows that he lived such a life. I can explain it briefly like this.
My mother Uweyş, the state exiled us to Adana on April 11, 1986. Sıe died in Adana on April 11, 1993. In other words, her exile and death will always be remembered by us in these two days.”
