BEHDINAN – With a written statement, the PKK Culture and Art Committee commemorated Kurdish director Halil Uysal (Halil Dağ) on the 15th anniversary of his death. The following statements were included in the statement of the PKK Culture and Art Committee, which commemorates Halil Dağ, who was martyred in an ambush set up by the Turkish state on April 1, 2008, with respect and gratitude:
“Our leading hero, our great artist comrade Halil Dağ was ambushed by the invading Turkish state on April 1, 2008 and died. Heval Halil, who left behind his life full of struggle as a legacy, gave a great effort for 13 years with great energy and unending love. Heval Halil became Önder Apo’s comrade, became a guerrilla, became a writer, became a photographer, became a director, became a revolutionary. He became a friend of the mountains. Khalil means best friend in Arabic. He was also the closest, most sincere, most sincere friend of the mountains.
Heval Halil lived a life worthy of his name. ‘We have a camera and a camaraderie,’ he used to say. That was enough to tell all the stories in his heart. He was there in the heat of the war; opened a new war front with its unforgettable images and news. He took guerrilla photographs, immortalized mountain landscapes, memories and emotions. He brought stories to life with the films he made. He wrote poetry, turning the aesthetics of guerrilla life into literature with his sensitive senses. Halil loved the mountains, and the mountains loved him too. He traveled the steep cliffs, the deep valleys, the peaks in the sky, the tops of the mountains; searched for hidden and unfinished guerrilla stories. It was present in moments of war, action and victory, it was also present in halay and guerrilla songs. He lived with the water, soil and fire of the mountains, loved its nature. Halil Dag created a mountain cinema.
Heval Halil Dağ cinema was the heroism and freedom cinema of the mountains of Kurdistan and the Kurds. The new Kurdish cinema freed itself from the status of a historical ‘object’ and became the object of life. Heval was an exemplary comrade in Halil’s life. He always gave a different place to the Free Kurdish women and the Women’s Freedom Movement in his articles and films. Heval Halil was in love with free life. He was in love with the guerrillas, the mountains and Leader Apo. He tried to be worthy of his promise to Leader Apo. In his writings, he would describe the excitement of those moments he spent with Leader Apo. He struggled for years in the free mountains with an apoist stance. His latest project was called ‘Mountain Ararat Travelers’. He went to the north of the country with the guerrillas and was sent off to eternity. Our promise and duty is to continue on the path he left; To ensure the freedom of Rêber Apo. Comrade Halil is immortal.”
