After morning prayers on Eid, thousands of people in north-eastern Syria visited the graves of their fallen loved ones. More than 12,000 people have died in the region in the fight against ISIS and the Turkish occupation.
In the autonomous region of northern and eastern Syria, thousands of people set out early in the morning after the holiday prayers at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan to visit the graves of their relatives in the many cemeteries of martyrs. Flowers are laid at the gravesites in memory of the martyrs and torches and candles are lit. According to the tradition on Eid al-Fitr, sweets are distributed and people wish each other a peaceful holiday.
Visiting cemeteries and graves of the martyrs on holidays is a tradition throughout Kurdistan. In north-eastern Syria, more than 12,000 people have died in the fight against Islamist groups such as ISIS and al-Nusra, as well as against the Turkish occupation. There is hardly a family that does not have a martyr among its relatives.
