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NUDA KARKER
Heval Nuda Karker joined the organization in 1992. Most of the time she stayed in the Zagros region when crossing the country. In 1998 she saw education from Rêbertî. After the education, Heval Nuda joined the training group and stayed with the Leader. After that she went to the works in Europa. Heval Nuda was known for her popular character. She worked among the people, was always together with the people and was loved by them. After coming to the motherland, she stayed most of it in Behdinan and Qandil regions. Heval Nuda was to travel to the Botan area, the Leader suggests that a PKK formation committee be formed. This is why the departure of Heval Nuda is stopped by the organization. Heval Nuda always dreamed of going to the mountains of Botan. In that process the organization went through great hardships and difficulties. But Heval Nuda had a hard involvement in the work and was one with Rêbertî. At that time she and her friend Viyan were taking their place in that committee together.
The goals of Heval Nuda was to fulfil her responsibilities in that process. A characteristic of her was that she fulfilled her responsibilities no matter how small or large. Heval Nuda always saw her’s tasks as to serve the organization and her comrades. The placement of Martyr Nuda and Martyr Viyan in the PKK’s founding committee gave great confidence to women and men. They participated in the PKK training with great sacrifice. After the first PKK congress, Heval Nuda voluntarily moved to YJA-Star (women’s guerrilla) and insisted on moving to Botan.
Martyr Nuda’s friendship with Reberti was very strong, because when she felt martyr Rêbertî said “I had a friend Nuda Karker”, here is what I want to say Rêbertî did not have a friend for everyone to say. Heval Nuda made a real friendship with the Leader, so the APO Leader accepted her as his friend. Martyr Nuda accepted Leadership as an ideology and philosophy for herself. Her connection and love was on an ideological and philosophical level. Leadership sought loyalty in people. That is why he always told us “when you talk to me do not speak in your own language, speak with your heart will be right, then I will understand what is in your heart.” Nuda’s friend also spoke heartily to the Leader. The expectations of the Leader from Heval Nuda were at a high level, because she saw a leader of the women’s movement and saw great power in her, so she had a great progress. Heval Nuda with her sequel and his involvement in life, has a stake in Leadership. She was involved in life with a natural responsibility.
Heval Nuda loved her gender very much. She did a great job of helping her female friends. Gently approached her female friends. There was a great struggle against the backwardness of women. The pain that all women living today felt in their hearts was therefore related to their gender and they struggled against inadequacy. It was a great opportunity for female friends to develop and escape pain and suffering. All the female friends loved her. She was fighting against female friends but she never looked small, because everyone understood why she was fighting against them. Despite the hardships and difficulties he still insisted on in his sexual struggle, he did not compromise in his ways. Heval Nuda could not live without female friends. Her source of morale was her friends and she shared it with female friends.
HALÎL DAG
Dag was martyred on April 1, 2008 in a battle in Besta along with three of his friends. Halil Dag was born in Germany in 1973 and traveled to the mountains of Kurdistan in 1995 to prepare a documentary on PKK guerrillas. From then on he stayed on the mountain to take pictures, prepare films and write articles about guerrilla life. He left behind six films, many articles and diaries about Kurdistan and the Kurdish guerrillas.
Halil Dag describes his journey to the cinema as follows:
“I was born in Germany in 1973 to a father from Izmir and a mother from Agiri. My primary school years were spent in Izmir and Germany, then I completed my secondary and high school education at Tayzmir Private College. Then we moved to Europe, where I worked as a worker in many jobs, as well as receiving photography training in evening schools.
During my three years in Europe I recognized the struggle for freedom. In 1994, I joined Med TV, the first Kurdish television station in Europe. On April 1, 1995, I traveled to the Middle East to interview Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan as an assistant cameraman. During the filming, I recognized the guerrillas at the PKK’s central school. After this program that I did with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan and it was my first meaningful job, I decided to stay and move on.
My later years were spent with Kurdish freedom fighters in the mountains of Kurdistan…
My journey to the cinema…I never thought I would make a movie one day.
If I had not gone to the top of the mountain, if I had not been a guerrilla, if I had not known the heroic children of the Kurdish people, if I had not witnessed their lives, I would not have been able to make a film. Cinema is my journey on the mountain that started with pictures… I was not born in this land and did not grow up in this land. I only saw the mountains of this country, which is called Kurdistan. And from a distance I saw the light of the cities… But I was wet in its rivers, I hid myself in its beds, I salted in its summer heat… Here my friends were born, my friends were martyred. After them I rained tears. In these mountains where I came for a while just to take pictures I got to know the people of these mountains. Eat the same food with them, wrap yourself in the same blanket and freeze in the same cold.
Initially when I arrived I saw myself as an stranger here. For me there was no east beyond Izmir. My mother was from Agiri, My father was from Izmir and I had no other information. It never occurred to me to learn more. I first recognized the Kurds in the guerrillas. I had been to the same place with them before. But the first people I looked at with the Kurdish eye were guerrillas. Before I got to know much I knew the heroes of his people. Suddenly I became friends with many of the most dynamic, powerful, beautiful and select people. This was probably the biggest chance for me…
With my little training in cameras and photography, I landed in the holy city of Damascus in the spring of 1995. This was for me both the beginning of the struggle and my professional life. In those days when I was just twenty-two years old, I was studying at a private school in Izmir, working in various jobs in Europe, but did not find the answer to my search, and as a recent student of photography I had already moved to the Middle East. Those days when I left everything behind and headed for the centre of the Middle East, I remember very well that I had decided never to return again. With great enthusiasm I felt that what I was looking for in my life and career was here. I quickly fell into this geography I never knew, I fell into people I never knew and did not know their language.
My camera and my camera were ready to capture the scene of life, my soul was also ready for life. My journey began and continued with a journey into the lives of freedom fighters. The couple travelled together for years. I could not remember seeing and living things in the mountains of Kurdistan, one day I will reach the level of cinema…”
