The trip to Diyarbakır began in the early hours of the day… During the flight I read an article in the U.S. weekly magazine, The Nation… The article written by Jesse Rosenfeld is titled, “Turkey Is Fighting a Dirty War Against Its Own Kurdish Population.” I have lost count of the number of articles that have been published in international media with a similar title since July.

They are the real sufferers who have had to migrate from the rural area to Sur in 1992, and have now lost their homes in Sur, whose voices remain unheard among lies and deceit, because U.S. magazines and Western media cannot get an opinion that will suit their needs. They have no names, no faces… If they did, we would not be able to publish any of this as both them and their relatives may face death.

I have Rosenfeld's The Nation article in my head, I see the tear-eyed mothers before my eyes and hear Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's wife Sare Davutoğlu's words in my ears: “It is the stance of Diyarbakır's women against terror that makes the provocations ineffective.” I am not sure which to believe. However, I am returning to Istanbul with the concern of how we will overcome the never-ending lies and the plots hidden behind fancy words, and with the sorrow of the stories of the women resisting PKK oppression.