‘’This is where we belong!’’

Fatih Pınar, a videographer working on a Cizre documentary with a grant from the international Objective Investigative Journalism Programme went back to the war-stricken Kurdish town after seventy-nine days of curfew and siege.
 
The town he filmed before the siege was no more. What he saw was but a ghost of the Cizre he knew so well. The inhabitants most of whom had left the town before the Turkish security operations began came back to find their houses in ruins and their relatives firebombed.
 
Despite it all, Cizre’s people seem determined to stay and re-build their lives.  One Kurdish woman clearly angry with the Turkish state said it all: ‘’We are not going anywhere, we can’t. This is where we belong!’’