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Mount Nemrut
I’d been wanting to see this place for about 10 years but most travel advisories warned people off it for the better part of the 2010s (that has since changed). I was recently planning a trip to Bulgaria (to see Ville, of course) and was suddenly struck by a wave of inspiration to take the plunge and travel to southeastern Turkey, so I am glad to say I can finally check this place off my bucket list :)
These are the ruins outside of what is assumed to be a royal tomb erected by Antiochus of Commagene, a Greco-Iranian kingdom, during the 1st century BC. The tomb itself is yet to be uncovered due to the sheer amount of loose stones covering the tumulus.
This is such a fascinating place, it straight up gave me similar vibes to the Fellowship seeing the Argonath in LOTR. I hope to come again and be able to watch the sunset from the top of the mountain 🥲
Mixing the two ingredients, and wielding a simple needle, they applied traditional tattoos to their faces, legs and hands.
“I was in love with a man, who later became my husband. I wanted him to find me beautiful,” says the 84-year-old Yusufoglu. “Although the needle hurt badly, we young girls of 10 and 16 used to tattoo each other.”
They collected the soot from the bottom of cooking pots used on wood fires, and mixed it with breast milk from a mother feeding an infant girl.
“The milk of a mother nursing a girl is used because the tattoo made with this milk comes out a paler shade of green,” 87-year-old Hulu Aydoglu says. “The milk of a mother nursing a boy comes out darker.”
The tattoos are still visible on Yusufoglu’s lined face 70 years on, but the practice is dying out.
Some women blame growing Islamic opposition to the practice, saying preachers have told them the tattoos are a sin.
“At that time, the tattoos were our make-up,” she says. “Now there is make-up - and no need to make oneself beautiful with tattoos.”
A 22 year old woman was killed for the sake of wearing "improper hijab". The police brutally killed her and then tried to blame it on the hospital staff and even tried to fake her having an illness just to "justify" their actions. As if there could ever be a justification for such blatant brutality and slaughter.
Let me quote a translated line from the holy Quran for you:
"There is no forcefulness in religion."
There is no such thing as a forced religion. And Islam is not what these fiends make it out to be. It breaks my heart to see people associate Islam with them when they don't even hold to God's most treasured principle: be good to each other. Be good people. Be human.
And yet, here we are in this country. They want to force everything on us. Our beliefs, our religion, our thoughts, and even our feelings. They try to control everything about us. How inhumane of a system do you have to be to do that?
And when we protest, they silence us. They take away our internet, beat the voice out of us, and in some instances, literally kill us for crimes that we have never committed. How wrong is it that we ask to live?
Our hearts go out to Mahsa and her family, and the others who've lost their lives in the protests that have followed her unjust and evil murder at the hands of this regime. This regime, this system, is neither Islam nor is it Iran. And we are no longer staying silent.
What can you do? Be our voice. Spread awareness. This is not us, and this is not our religion. We may lose this battle yet again to bullets and blatant slaughter in the streets, but our war with this regime will never be over. Not until the day Iran is freed.
For the sake of Mahsa and everyone else who's died an unjust death at the hands of these murderers, we ask you humbly: don't let our voice die out. Don't let us be forgotten.
Sincerely, thank you, from a woman in Iran.
#Mahsa_Amini #MahsaAmini #IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی
Stencils seen in Iran featuring the names and faces of women murdered by cops during the ongoing protests following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish woman who was murdered by the morality police after being arrested and beaten for supposedly incorrectly wearing a hijab.
For Mehsa, Nika, Sarina, Mino, Hadith, Hajar, Hadida, Hanana, Aisan and every other woman whose life was stolen these days, because she cried out for freedom.
😢😢YEEEES
We should stand together in this, support, donate, be in solidarity with each other.
Kurdish Jewish man wearing a machine-embroidered suit and an overcoat ('abayye) in the style of the Aqra region. Jerusalem, 1980.
hey, my kurdish friend wanted to point out that the iranian woman murdered by the police in tehran was a kurd and her kurdish name was jîna emînî. she has mostly been referred to as mahsa amini, the iranian version of her name, in the media & that can ofc still be used to make sure posts about her reach a mainstream audience. however people should make sure to mention her given kurdish name foremost, as well as highlight the fact that she was a kurd in the first place, because that played a part in her facing the violence that she did.
