The people living in the villages of South Kurdistan revealed that they do not want the invading Turkish army in their own lands and said "We want our old peace back, the peace we had before the Turks came. We do not want war, they want to make us fighting by force.

“We cannot walk freely in our villages, cities and mountains. We are not allowed to speak and  to express our own opinion freely. We love all Kurds and we do not want Kurds to fight each other”.

‘We fight each other because others want us to do so!’

The villagers added: "We learned so much lessons, we shed so much blood, what good have we received? We just killed each other and shot each other. We fight each other because the others wanted it. Let the Kurds get wise and not fight with each other anymore. We used to go up to the mountains and the slopes, and collect wood, herbs and sumach, that is how we used to take care of our children. Now we are afraid to go to the mountains, we cannot go. Some of them get permission from the government or others, we will not ask permission from our enemies to go to our mountains. We are afraid that war will break out, but we are not afraid from someone else. There is allegedly freedom to report news , but journalists are arrested in South Kurdistan. So many people have been kidnapped in Duhok.”

'Turkey is not welcome here'

Expressing that there are many families that support different parties, the people of South Kurdistan stated: "There could be party members who support different parties in a house. Some support the KDP politics, some support the PUK or the Goran Movement or some support the politics of the PKK. But ultimately they are all Kurdish. There are national feelings. There was a little boy whose body was burned in the Serêkaniyê war, when we saw him on TV. I and my wife cried for hours. What is the fate of the Kurds, why is it so ... There are so many things besides the national feelings that bind us together, how do we fight, how will we fight? These young people have been in these mountains for years, how am I going to take a gun and shoot them! They provided us bread and water. We do not want war, Turkey can go anywhere to make war, we do not want Turkey in Kurdistan. "