The neighborhood residents say “It’s like the Karbala” and they are trying to get the water they need from mosques and sepulchres with hoses. The graffiti on the walls read, “The fasting is here, water is gone, where is your Islam?” as Alipaşa residents complain of apathy.

Water services were cut off last week, followed by the power. Having no water is a big problem for the Alipaşa residents. As Ramadan starts, the residents who don’t even have drinking water are trying to get water from mosques and sepulchres in Lalebey and Ziya Gökalp neighborhoods.

Halise Çetin (56) lives in Alipaşa neighborhood. She carries water every day from the mosque in jerry cans and says: “Because we don’t have a car, we carry the water on our backs. I get very tired. They are putting us through Karbala in this holy month of Ramadan. You don’t cut off the water even in war. Is this their Islam?”

By the start of the hot season in Amed, some walls in Alipaşa neighborhood are covered with graffiti about the lack of water: “Ramadan is here, the water is gone, where is your Islam?”

Mehtap Saylın also lives in Alipaşa. She says their home is a registered historic building, and there is no demolition order on it, but their water and power are cut off too, and adds: “We are going through a very hard time. We have no water to drink, to cook, to clean. What will we eat? How will we live?”

FIGHTING A FIRE WITHOUT WATER

Meanwhile, on Sunday at noon, dried up bushes that sprouted on the plot of a previously evacuated and demolished house near Alipaşa Mosque caught fire. The fire caused panic in the neighborhood as there is no water, but the fire was eventually put out by other means.