“Indeed, I have experienced the situation shown by these photos, I have seen all this with my own eyes. In the 1990s, when the Kurds left for Iran and Turkey, a series of cars crossed the border. Women washed their children with a litter of water and may not wash them for two or three days. We have experienced exactly the same situation. And these camps that I see, the same had been made in '88, when they threw us from our villages. Indeed, too many men had moved and only women remained in these closed concentration camps. I, in '88, when I was 16 years old and I was a student at the time, experienced this thing very intensely then. That is, everything we see now with these women, we experienced everything and even worse. Whatever I say I cannot describe it. […] So, we have experienced similar images, conditions, and situations four or five times in Kurdistan in recent history. Personally, I was very moved by the photos because I have lived it three of the four times, in '88 and '91 and '96.”
This video shows the parallel story of the Greek women political exiles who lived along with their children in a camp especially constructed for women in an inhabited island, Trikeri, during the 1940s and 1950s and the story of Iraqi Kurdish women who had a very similar experience living in women camps in the 1980s and 1990s in North Iraq. This video was made by Iraqi Kurdish refugees.