Xaltika Sorê (75) who lives in Bremen was sued for her yellow-red-green clothes and was sentenced to pay a 300 Euro fine by a German court. Görmez said, “Whatever the price may be, I will continue to wear those dresses and support my symbols.”
75 year old Seri Görmez has been living in Bremen, Germany for 23 years. Among the Kurdish community, she is known as Xaltika Sorê for the colorful dresses she wears. Görmez leads all local and central Kurdish demonstrations in her Kurdish traditional clothes.
Görmez attended the march and rally protesting the Erdoğan regime in Cologne, Germany on November 12, 2016 and was targeted by the German police there. Xaltika Sorê was sentenced to pay a fine of 300 Euros yesterday by a local Cologne court for her dresses.
“I STOPPED A PROVOCATION THAT DAY”
Görmez said she will appeal the verdict and that she should have received an apology instead of a fine. She talked about the events of the day:
“I went to the march and rally to protest the Erdoğan dictatorship wearing the clothes I always wear. When I was alone, the Cologne police came and told me the clothes I was wearing are banned in Germany. The ‘banned’ clothes were merely the colors yellow, red and green.
Then I told them I didn’t have any other clothes with me and I refused to take it off despite their insistence. Afterwards the police tore my dress off and I was left out there with only my underwear. After the German police attacked me, people started to come by where we were. The German police was clearly looking to create a provocation, I intervened and told people to not fall for it.”
“I WILL CONTINUE TO WEAR MY NATIONAL DRESS”
Görmez stated that the German police had no right to prevent a person from embracing their national values and continued: “Nobody has the right to tear off my body the dress I have pinned Kurdish national symbols on. I am a person with values, I pin the symbols of the Kurdistan national struggle all over my national dress and I will continue to do so.”
