Should children die?
The winter months of late 2015 and early 2016 were a dark time in southeastern Turkey. Our cities were under bombardment. There were military curfews in many Kurdish cities. Children were dying from shrapnel and gunshot wounds. Most of schools in the mainly Kurdish southeast were closed. Many teachers had left. Kurdish people were isolated from the rest of the country. It was hard to make even our voices heard under the bombardment.
There were some muted protests in western Turkey. But most of the people who live in the more affluent west of the country appeared indifferent to what was happening in the east.