Over 20 photographers set up “Photograph Workshop for Children” in the village of Roboski which lost its 34 people in a bombardment of Turkish warplanes two years ago, on 28 December 2011, yet another black day for the Kurdish people, and another massacre not exposed nor answered for.

Some 60 children who have been provided with photography training at the workshop chose their themes and set to work, holding an exhibition one day before the second anniversary of the Roboski massacre.

Some took the photographs of the Roboski cemetery, and some told the story of their mothers and sisters with the title “the bride's black veil” but each one of them reflected the spirit of the massacre. The 43 stories they handled in the workshop were also collected into a book and presented to the children.

Photographers coming from Amed, Istanbul and Van to provide photography training for 60 youths, aged between 7 and 17, say they are doing this in order to strengthen the collective memory in Roboski through photograph, writing and stories, and to join the scream of young photographers in the village.

They say they are making an effort to shine light on the world from the point of view of children and youths, and to convey their thoughts, feelings and objections to the future in a world polluted by the hand of the governments.

Semra Yeşil, one of the trainers, tells that the work of each minor bears the traces of the massacre, adding that; "They are taking photographs of the cemetery even while telling an ordinary story. We wanted to reflect the life going on here, because the elders can share their pains but the children cannot, they are much more lonely and the stories they handle in their photographs have been to them a means of expressing themselves".

Ceylan Yılmaz, 16, one of those attending the workshop, is the owner of the "Covered up Photographs" story. She says her work made her happy for giving her a chance to commit her mother's grief of losing a child to memory, and to carry it into future.

A large number of non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders and politicians, as well as executives and members of the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), are expected to join the memorial service to take place in Roboski today.