Mehmet Aksoy was from the Elbistan district of Northern Kurdistan in Maraş province. He grew up in London after his family's migration to Europe. Since the early years of his youth, he has never been separated from the path of anti-capitalist, democracy and human rights struggle as part of the rightful struggle of the Kurdish people. Especially after the Şengal massacre on August 3, 2014, he ceaselessly carried out work and gave all his effort to inform and organize the Kurdish community and many others.

When several YPG Press Office members lost their lives in an aerial attack by the invading, fascist and colonialist Turkish army on the Qereçox Mountain in Dêrik on April 25, 2017, Mehmet Aksoy (nom de guerre Firaz Dağ) decided to go to Rojava to fill the void that had been created and to follow the path of the martyred journalists. He immediately took his place in the YPG press centre in order to take on the role of these friends and become a voice to the people and comrades, in order to tell the world about the injustice.

Aksoy was killed by ISIS while he was making a documentary about the Raqqa operation alongside the YPG on September 26. His body was received by a crowd of hundreds in London on October 25.

Funeral services for fallen British-Kurdish activist and filmmaker Aksoy will be held in London on Friday 10th November 2017.

START: at the Kurdish Community Centre at 9:30am. The initial part of the ceremony will end at the Kurdish Community Centre at 11:30am.

AFTER: there will be a funeral procession starting at 11:30am from Kurdish Community centre to Highgate Cemetery for the burial. We will walk from the Kurdish Community Centre to Highgate Cemetery.
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Kurdish Community Centre:
11 Portland Gardens
London
N4 1HU
Closest station to Kurdish Community Centre:
-Manor House Underground Station (Piccadilly line)
-Haringey green lanes overground station
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Highgate Cemetery:
Swain's Ln
Highgate
London
N6 6PJ

Closest station to Highgate cemetery:
- Archway underground station (Northern line)
(Kurdish people's assembly in UK)