SYRIA. Derek. Rojava. Cicek's sister, Rojin, 20, seen during the PYD promotional call for new members for YPJ and YPG in a street in Derek town. The megaphone played revolutionary music and the speaker kept talking about the freedom spirit and the Kurdish democracy.
"My sister was very naive and sensitive when she left us. But four years later, when she came back to bury the body of her friend who had been killed in Kobane, she was smart and tough and I could see lots of self-confidence in her eyes. When my mother told her 'please don't go back, stay with your mother', she answered 'I left to fight for all the mothers of the world. I cannot stay here'. When she came back for her friend's burial, she briefly visited the house. She kept taking pictures in every corner and with all of us, as if it was her the last party of her life."