Part of Diyarbakir's old city walls. Wikicommons/ Bertil Videt. Some rights reserved.We are in Surici district with Lale Mansur, Zeynep Tanbay, Ferhat Tunc, Aysegul Devecioglu, Bahri Belen and Dilek Gokçin who came from Istanbul today. We meet Sibel Yigitalp, the HDP Diyarbakir deputy who is on constant watch in Sur. Ms. Yigitalp is able to talk with the families inside from time to time. A heavy bombardment is going on. Small snippets of information filter through to where we crowd around.
We listen to the phone conversations with the people in the basements. Remziye talks:
“Here, we are in hell. We got out of our house and managed to reach the Savas neighbourhood, I assume it is the Savas neighborhood. There is no water. We are in the basement of a house. The floors above us are destroyed by bombing: the ceiling may collapse. Two of my daughters have chicken-pox. I could not take them to the hospital. I would not dare to go out. There are snipers all around. It is like an apocalypse.”
