YJA-Star guerrilla fighter Newroz Alkaş, who died on 7 June this year in the province of Dersim during clashes with Turkish troops, was buried in her birth town Amed (Diyarbakir). The funeral was accompanied by intensive police and military measures.

The corpse of Alkaş, a member of the Free Women's Troops (YJA-Star), had been handed over for burial by the Forensic Department in Malatya only on Thursday. For a whole three and a half months her parents had been on an odyssey to get the remains of their daughter and were systematically harassed in the laborious search for their daughter's remains. It was only last night that the body was transferred to Amed.

However, the entire journey there was overshadowed by reprisals by the Turkish police and military, which also continued at the entrance to the cemetery in the central district of Yenişehir. The family was hardly given time to say goodbye to their daughter. Moreover, only close family members were admitted to the funeral. In addition to friends of Newroz Alkaş, members of MEBYA-DER (Association of the Bereaved in the Cradle of Mesopotamia) were also forbidden to attend the farewell.