Reaction of Cizre residents against the state terror shows no signs of subsiding. Residents of neighborhoods where thousands of dwellings have been destroyed open up their homes for those who have lost theirs. Spirit of solidarity emerges in the face of the state's policy of displacement.

While a significant portion of the district has been burned to the ground, along with the massacre in Cizre, the people whose houses have been damaged by the shellings are returning. Cizre residents, who state that they are aware of the policy of displacement, are determined to live with their own culture despite the horrors they have been subjected to.

Thinking it would be "dishonorable" for them to leave Cizre after hundreds of people were burned alive, the people have relayed the massacre and the pain they have gone through to ANF.

Hanım Turgut: I can forget what this state has done in Cizre, the bones of our burned children only if spring grass grows on my grave. Who can forget the young bodies burned in that basement? My only wish from God is that that palace comes crashing down on him. They set fire to our house that was built by 20 years of labor from our children. But after our people were burned alive, we wouldn't complain if we were to live in tents. There is only one goal of all the massacre and destruction; the state doesn't want us here any more, but nobody should think for a second that we will betray the blood of our sacred martyrs, we will not betray our brave children whose blood filled the streets in Cizre. They are forcing that dishonor on us but we will stay in Cizre as Kurds, and we will know to die as Kurds.

Bahoz Aksu: Davutoğlu said they would "bring peace to Cizre." The clock in our home had stopped at 12:30. That was the moment they brought peace to our home by artillery shots fired onto our home. Shame on us for having called these people brothers. I had never harbored any anger or resentment towards them. I truly did not know they had such enmity against us. My one year old child's crib was hit by an artillery shell, so if we hadn't left our baby would have been killed by the artillery fire.

Sultan Toptak: We will not leave Cizre for the memory of Mehmet Tunç and his friends and the bravery of Botan. We are currently staying with our neighbors, we will go live in the rubble of our house but we will never give up on Cizre. Look, they burned our children alive and most of the people have returned to Cizre. If even the people whose houses were destroyed are not giving this city up, that means those who have tried to push us out have failed. They can't end us all by killing, and they can't destroy our Kurdishness by burning down our homes. At this point, taking a step back is treason for us.

Soyraz Tunç: After the atrocities in Cizre, despite all our insistence, they said "You are not our brothers, the Kurds are our enemies" through the appalling graffiti they wrote on the walls. But they are the losing side with this barbarity. In the 1990's, during the time of unsolved murders, 10% of the Kurds supported the PKK, then the support rose to 50%. After the Roboski Massacre 80 % became PKK supporters. A hundred per cent of the people have become PKK supporters now against this state that burned people's bones in Cizre. We have witnessed all their barbarism as well. May God give Emine (Erdoğan) the pain of a child too, maybe she can make sense of our pain a little.