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- May you be well! - Thank you!

- We are going to "Balıkçılarbaşı". - Okay.

November 28, 2015 Diyarbakır / North Kurdistan, Turkey

Don't come downward. I'm coming up there.

Okay.

I would like to get off here, anywhere convenient, please.

You said somewhere else. Our agreement was different.

It's fine, I'll pay anyway. Take this money.

I don't have any change.

Well then, stop here. We'll buy some cigarettes and then pay you.

Okay.

- Will you stop?! Stop here! - Okay! I will stop.

- Stop I said! - Okay, okay.

Get out, bastard!

*We need to protect these values of our history. *Tahir Elçi, Chairman of Diyarbakır Bar Association

We want to make a call on...

Centre! There is an injury, Centre!

Don't go, don't go, don't go.

For nearly 40 years now, there has been an ongoing armed conflict

between the Turkish state military-police forces

and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) guerrillas.

According to the data collected by human rights organizations,

60,000-65,000 lives were lost on both sides during this period of time.

Nearly 3,000 of villages and farm communities were burned and evacuated.

1901 civilians were killed or lost. 3 million Kurds were displaced.

Peace negotiations between the delegations of both sides,

which started in 2013, were ended after the elections of June 7, 2015

in which the Kurdish-led party HDP, won enough seats to enter Parliament.

The political tension quickly turned into armed conflicts

in more than 30 Kurdish cities.

One of these cities was the Sur district of Diyarbakır.

On the 28th of November 2015, Turkish authorities declared curfew in "Sur"

where thousands of police and army units were deployed.

Violent clashes took place in the besieged area for 105 days.

Based on real events and characters.

November 15, 2015 The entrance of Diyarbakır city

Everyone show your ID cards!

- Hey, boy, bring some tea! - You too, come on!

Come on! Hurry up!

Let's go.

Motherfuckers.

Sons of bitches.

I know, I'm late. That's why I am worried!

Why, why wasn't I that curious towards you before?

I wish that I could know you better.

You made this journey for your ideals, while I am doing it for you...

The End Will Be Spectacular

Run son, run!

DOWN WITH FASCISM

Hello, mother!

Where are you, daughter? You are killing me.

I'm fine mother. I arrived, I am in Diyarbakır now.

For God's sake. You know that I'm already ill.

Yes mother, I know. I've already arrived, don't worry.

Where will you stay, all by yourself?

Don't worry. I've booked a room at a hotel.

You will stay at a hotel in your hometown? How come!

Mom, it's all right. You make me sad. Don't you know why I am here?

I'm going to have a shower now. Have a good evening.

Hi, I'm Kenan.

Sorry, I accidentally heard your phone call...

- I guess you're not from here, right? - No. Thank God, I am from here.

Oh, you were talking about a hotel...

Goodness! Why are you annoyed?

Anyway...

Now we know their tactics. They can't fool us any more!

For these reasons,

we shouldn't allow them to dirty our streets with their combat boots any more.

Brother Yilmaz!

Yes?

Did you not recognize me? I'm Zilan.

She is martyr Andok's sister.

I would like to talk with Hogir too.

Don't rush. You're not going back to Istanbul tonight!

No, I'm not going back now. But...

To be honest... Do you know why I am here?

You don't need a special reason. This is your home.

- Hello. - Hello.

Comrade Dicle, I have something urgent to do. I must go.

You will host my guest, won't you?

You don't need to ask. Come in, dear.

She is the sister of our Andok. Andok the martyr.

Sorry Zilan. If it wasn't important...

If I ever see you again drinking this demon drink!

What will you do? Kill me?

That's not your business. And I'm not afraid of you.

Look, we are your friends.

We won't let you harm yourselves, or the children of our neighborhood.

Show a little shame at least!

Your childhood friend died a martyr, two days ago.

They won't even give us her body! Look what you've become!

You look at yourself first!

On these streets, they arrested my father.

He never came back.

We couldn't find him, or his body.

This is when we had to leave this city.

Andok, my brother, just couldn't accept

the disappearance of my father or us leaving "Diyarbakır".

Five years ago, he left leaving just a short note behind.

Said, "Don't worry or search for me. I am going to our homeland."

Here, I've come back to homeland just like you.

I saw Yilmaz, asked about you. He either changed the subject or remained silent.

Zilan, let's hurry up. We have lots of things to do today.

Come on, come on.

Open the door!

Don't stare at us! Turn around!

Break the door!

Open the door, prick.

Enter.

Yilmaz, what's going on here? What happened?

Do you want us to go into jail one by one like lambs?

Don't worry, these are our streets.

- May you be well, mother. - Thank you!

- Do you see this flower pot? - Yes.

If you see that cloth on it, you knock on the door four times.

- If there is not cloth, just leave, okay? - Okay.

Good morning! Come in!

The comrade is here!

- Who? - Come and see!

Yilmaz!

Move, move!

- Help, God, help. - Search everywhere!

What do you think you're doing?

- You, fuck off! - You unjust despots!

Get the fuck off I said!

You detained these young people again. What did they do to you? What?

Shut the fuck up, you son of a bitch. Get out of here fuck face. Get the fuck out.

Come on, hurry!

Come over here, guys!

Long live leader Apo!

Motherfuckers.

You bastards of Apo!

Help! Guys, someone come. Help!

- Where's the doctor been? - He's coming.

His pulse is very low.

We need to take him to the hospital immediately.

Doctor, we can't take him to the hospital. He would be arrested.

Look, he is losing too much blood! If it goes on like this, we may lose him.

Comrade, we cannot let him die. Do something yourself!

I'm a veterinarian. There is nothing I can do!

Comrade, what happened?

Those bastards didn't let us take him to the hospital.

He lost too much blood.

He died a martyr.

Bastards!

We need to build our own hospital.

Can you do it?

Since we have to bear this burden,

we'll do the best we can.

If the guerillas don't come, we won't be able to go on like this.

There is nothing we can do.

O martyr! The blood you shed shall not be in vain.

My son is not the first martyr, and will not be the last one.

Not only mine, but a martyr of all the Kurdish people...

O martyr! The blood you shed shall not be in vain.

O martyr! The blood you shed shall not be in vain.

Friends, if everyone is ready, we will start.

To people of Kurdistan and to the international public opinion;

The genocide on the Kurds, who are an ancient people, continues relentlessly.

It's been for 90 years now that, the Turkish state ignores

the very existence of Kurds and strives to assimilate them.

These politics have turned into a genocide

during the period of AKP rule. (AKP = Justice and Development Party)

The negotiation process for a democratic solution

started by the leader of the Kurds Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan has been terminated.

Simultaneously, Turkish warplanes bombarded our villages.

Our people were killed.

They arrested our people arbitrarily and besieged our cities.

We defend democracy and freedom against fascism.

We don't want to be ruled from Ankara, the capital.

We, as the People's Assembly of Sur, declare self-adminstration against this fascism.

Whatever the cost.

The Kurds will not accept a life without identity or status.

We will govern our cities and ourselves.

AZADI STREET (Azadi = Freedom)

Walk. Move!

You little bastards!

Move, now!

Bring that whore so I teach her a lesson.

What has the state done to you? You motherfuckers.

I will show you the power of Turks!

Motherfuckers Kurds!

Fuck your honor! Sons of bitches!

You want democratic autonomy?

Here is your democratic autonomy!

They will fear you! The enemy will fear you!

Come comrades, come!

Dilan!

Dilan! Go back home! Dilan!

Open the way.

Slowly, slowly.

Give me bandages and gloves.

Look doctor, you have to do more than your best!

Otherwise, comrade, we won't succeed.

Stop! What's going on?

- Who, who are you? - No, no!

We are not thieves. We are revolutionaries.

We have to do this.

Don't make us do things we don't want to!

This is a memento from my grandfather.

It hasn't even been a week since I came here.

Everything is moving so fast!

There are hundreds of questions in my mind that crawl around like ants.

What am I doing! What's going to happen to my school, my lessons?

What about my mother? I don't know.

People's Assembly of Sur

Comrade Yilmaz?

What about him?

I don't know. We've been looking for him all day. We cannot find him.

It's not easy to reach him.

Zilan... what happened?

Comrades, where were you? I was looking for you everywhere.

I couldn't find comrade Yilmaz too.

- So he isn't at home? - No.

Don't worry. Yilmaz always takes precautions.

Yes, but you see what's happening. All the gunshots coming from upwards...

Yes,

I heard.

Let's check for Yabo.

He knows everything.

- Let's ask him. - Ok.

I was so worried about Yilmaz.

But, Hogir reassured me a lot.

When I first met him I thought he was solitary.

As I get to know him, he shines from inside out.

He was feeling the same; there is something that brings us together.

Andok was very lucky to have such people around him.

Comrade Zilan... You know what?

You smile just like Andok...

Hello to all of you comrades once again!

My name is Nucan.

In my hometown we have some kind of apricot.

That tastes sour, and its seeds are sweet.

We call it Xodayî (Self-creation).

Xodayî apricots are not grafted. They grow without human intervention.

That's why it's called Xodayî.

Meaning, it creates itself, it is itself, pure!

You pick it from its tree and eat.

The taste it gives cannot be found in any other place.

What gathers us here, what hovers over us like an umbrella and embraces us;

is the will of our history, our land and our people.

In other words, it's self existence.

Fascism doesn't accept Kurds, Turks or women unless they become its slaves.

There is a saying, 'The ones who don't fight against fascism meet in fascism's dungeons'.

This is true!

This awareness will be enough for us to stand against fascism.

We will never bow to a dictatorship that is killing thousands of our young people!

If necessary, we will make shields of our bodies for our honor!

But we won't bow to them!

Comrades, don't carry the heavy things alone.

Hogir, you're allowed to carry two at once.

Hello comrade.

Welcome comrade Çiyager!

- How are you doing? - Fine, thanks!

How are you comrade?

How are you comrade?

- It's forbidden. - What do you mean by forbidden?

What you do is unlawful.

Shall these people stay outside?

They have kids, families, jobs.

Get out the way, we'll pass.

Move over! Move.

December 2, 2015 1st day of the siege

Announcement to all the citizens by the Diyarbakır governorate;

Until further notice, a curfew is declared on the neighborhoods of Dabanoğlu,

Fatih, Paşa and Hasirli from the side of Sur.

Announcement to all the citizens by the Diyarbakır governorate...

Bring that one over here.

Bring me that trolley.

What do you deliver to those terrorists?

Search the trolley!

- Let's pass! - Go away I said!

It is enough. We won't take it anymore!

We want to go, we have our homes there.

Go away! Back!

I know what you are.

I'm aware of what shit is going on there.

I will fuck their mothers, all of them.

Let this faggot out of here!

Let him go and clear the shit out there.

Son of a bitch!

Son of a donkey!

The power of organizing never fails. As you saw recently in Kobane, Shengal;

and today in Cizre.

I haven't seen one single tank used by Cizre people.

Don't you ask yourselves:

How come ISIS, which seized a city as big as Mosul within 24 hours,

couldn't advance one step further in Shengal?

If we want to resist then we need to be organized.

Any nation that wants to exist in this universe of truth must live in freedom.

Kurds have been struggling for more than a thousand years.

Because of this, they face extinction over and over.

This necessity gives us no choice but to fight.

That is also what created YPS and gathered us around YPS.

(YPS= Yekîneyên Parastina Sivîlan = Civil Protection Units)

Long live the Civil Protection Units!

Are these real?

Everything you see here is real.

Above all the other works that a person may practice;

military work is the most dangerous and serious one.

To be revolutionary is a very hard work as well.

But as long as our goal is freedom,

then being revolutionary becomes the most meaningful and valuable work.

It is not a coincidence that we are meeting here, around this fire,

us, the people who have decided to take on this popular revolutionary fight.

Hold it like this.

In the fight, you don't rely on this only.

You believe in this and this.

And in your comrades.

If these three come together in the fight, then no power can stand in your way.

When I am near Çiyager, I believe that I can do anything.

And I have enough power for everything.

He is not like the rest of us!

Where does he get so much intelligence, joy, high spirits and power from?

Nucan takes care of me the most. She listens the most.

She is like an angel.

I call Yilmaz "comrade" now, not brother.

I guess he would prefer "brother".

He thinks of me as a little sister.

It is almost impossible now to enter Sur.

Yet, a lot of young people have come to join the resistance.

Most of us have seen weapons for the first time, taken them in our hands.

I am not quite sure if I can use a weapon or not.

- You don't ask for drugs anymore. - I don't need it.

Wow! You speak Kurdish!

And you gave the pullover that I offered you to our new friend, the garbage man.

I did. Because it's cold you know.

Dilan, look! We'll run away from here and have money.

I'll marry you...

Take this phone and do what I say. Don't think about the rest.

No. Don't you understand!

I say no to you and everything you stand for.

Comrade, there are 12 of us,

aside from those who joined us from the local neighborhood.

The forces distribution is more or less the same.

Well then. What about the sand? Did you manage to get some?

Actually, we managed to get just one tractor load.

Okay, then we will manage with that for now. Also, there are some paving stones.

As guerillas way; with whatever available.

Well, but we have a bigger problem here, comrade Çiyager.

The excavator is still not here.

Whatever we do, AKP always makes propaganda of it

with "the politics of ditches" day and night.

Yet, we couldn't dig a single ditch.

This work will be more difficult than we imagined.

We will have to find solutions with our meager means.

Daughter, wouldn't it be better for you if you stayed with your male comrades?

Female comrades are in every ditch already. Here is a different one.

I mean, only belongs to women, YPS JIN's ditch.

Dicle, drag it.

Daughters, come the breakfast is ready!

Okay, just like that.

- Hogir, you won't crash somewhere, right? - No, no.

- Where did you get your license from, man? - I got it from some butcher shop.

Slow down man. There is a wall ahead.

Comrades, the enemy is coming. A panzer. Hurry up!

What's he doing?

It's us.

Do not fire, it is us!

Hold your fire!

Zafer, goodness, fortunately you're only a novice.

14th day of the siege

Come on comrade Zilan, faster. You need to be like a gazelle.

This war thing seems to be very hard.

Hello, comrade.

- Hello. - Hello, comrade.

The enemy made a big preparation. They may attack from all sides.

Okay. Then, each of us needs to go to one site and inform the comrades;

they should be careful.

Yilmaz, you go to the Kurshunlu trench. I'll go to Suleyman Nazif.

We're going to Yenikapi.

- Okay comrades, success! - May you do well!

We are here. And these are our barricades.

Here is where the mine is.

Comrades! Our primary aim is the armored vehicle.

We will blow the mine up in it.

Then we'll get the police team that will pour into the street,

and bring them to our site.

Don't forget! Be careful and stay calm.

Avesta, Ihsan, especially you comrades. Okay?

Everyone, take your position. Well, much success!

Come on Chinar! Chinar, comrade come on explode it!

Asi, Asi, Asi...

Asi!

Listening.

Comrade, we need reinforcements.

Comrade Avesta!

Comrade Avesta!

Quickly change your location. This one has been exposed. Ok?

Hold on, comrade!

Ihsan and Avesta are stuck in the street.

Okay. Keep the enemy occupied out there.

Raman, bring the sledgehammer. C'mon quickly.

Zafer!

Zafer! Zafer get up!

Get up comrade, come on!

Come on! Come on comrade Zafer!

Aim now! Come on!

Well done!

Now protect me. Okay?

Comrades?

Comrades?

Comrade, it's us.

- Drop your gun! - Capture him!

Drop your gun bastard, now!

Take this motherfucker.

Bastards! Bastards! You fascists!

Kurdistan will be a blood bath for you!

Even to death, we won't give up!

Comrade?

Yeah, drag it! You don't always see a scene like this!

Shoot it, film it, it will win the Oscar!

We rebuffed the enemy's biggest attack with the resistance of Sur.

We dealt a heavy blow to the enemy.

However, as a result of our faults, we've lost comrade Avesta.

As for comrade Ihsan, we don't even know his situation.

It seems that we haven't quite understood the severity of war yet.

No comrade should join the fight, unless they are ready for it.

We were ready, comrade Nucan.

Then why did all these things happen?

Why did this happen, you ask? Because the mine was not prepared well.

It has nothing to do with the mine.

It has nothing to do? Why it didn't explode then?

So, it does have something to do with it.

I was asleep. I wish that you had woken me up.

I couldn't.

- May it be wellness. - Thanks.

- You two together have become a good team. - Yes, yes of course!

But, commander Nucan, Chinar brings everything he sees in my shop, here.

When we are done with this war thing, he has to pay his debt.

If he won't pay, then he will be my errand boy.

Agreed, but for now you have to be his assistant. If not...

- If not, I might join my ancestors. - You've got the main point.

Of course I have.

You got angry that day and left.

You should understand other comrades' distress.

Comrade Nucan, someone is cutting off the mine cables.

We can strengthen this site with more comrades.

Comrade, there are two possible solutions; Either nobody will injure badly

or we will dig a tunnel for the passage of the injured.

Hello, comrades.

How are you?

How would we be?

Arjin was wounded, Harun and Zafer took her to the hospital.

Those bastards bombarded us.

So you buddies are just sitting and talking.

Yes, but our ears and eyes are on the enemy.

Come, have a seat.

Yilmaz's school became the headquarter of the Police Special Forces (PÖH) and ISIS.

Don't hit my nerves Hogir!

After all, I have a lot of memories there.

It hurts my heart when those bastards encroach on this territory.

Luckily you are here. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to put up with Hogir.

What's she doing?

- Dicle! What are you doing? - Nothing.

Nothing? You are burning your diaries.

Zilan, what happened?

I don't understand how can one burn her own memories.

This big notebook was an extra weight.

Comrade Xemgin is already writing.

Everyday people die around us.

Avesta martyred.

Neither writings nor anything has a meaning now.

Surrender. Give yourselves to the merciful hands of the state.

This is your last chance, surrender.

Surrender! Surrender!

You, surrender!

I did.

This was too easy. I take it back.

Dinner is ready.

- Good evening! - Good evening!

Comrade Zilan, you go and eat something. I've come to take over.

- Did you eat? - That's right.

Okay then.

There was nothing on my watch apart from their announcements.

- Much success! - Thank you!

Comrade Dicle!

Comrade Dicle?

I brought something to eat for her, but she wasn't around.

Stay where you are!

Hands up. Up!

Move towards us slowly!

I surrender. I brought information to you.

And that's it. All of them will come one by one.

Do not do anything unless I say so!

Stop there! Take off your coat! Take it off slowly!

What's going on?

There is someone, commandant. She is coming towards us. I think she will surrender.

Son, don't smoke inside.

Commandant, should I blow her head off?

Stop there!

Take off your shirt too! Quickly!

Turn back!

Bend over! Bend I said or I'll shoot you in the head!

Stand up!

Stand up and turn your face!

Pull up your undershirt!

I'm surrendering. Don't shoot.

What are you doing? Put your hands up! Up!

I am the one who threw that note! I brought you information.

Let go what you hold in your hand, or I will blow your head!

Don't shoot.

Don't do it Dicle, don't.

Some of you throw the flag to her!

Stand up. Now!

Take her!

Don't look! Do not raise your head until I say so! Do not even breathe, bitch!

- Who sent you? Talk! - No one.

Stop crying, speak up!

They are planning to do a big action with the last remaining ammunition.

- They are preparing for it. - Continue!

The rest, all the units are preparing.

I know where they are going to infiltrate from;

which house, which road they put mines, everything.

But it's in the notebook I brought you.

Bring the fucking notebook.

Take this whore away. Take her to the armored vehicle.

Look you fucking bitch.

If the things you've said are true, you'll save your ass.

If not, look at these boys and guess what will happen to you!

Take her away.

Move!

Bring it.

FOR MY PEOPLE!

Dicle... Dicle...

Comrade...

Can I take the camera?

Thanks!

I hit him, I hit him.

Comrade Çiyager, comrade Çiyager.

But I am not dead.

This ball doesn't kill you, it only disqualifies you!

Oh, really?

You hit it well!

Well then, continue playing!

Commander, what was the work of your father?

My parents live in our village.

They have an apricot garden and they have goats. Just rural work...

Oh, village is wonderful. I wish we had a village too.

But our situation is a hard one!

Have you always lived in a city?

No, comrade Nucan, what city? It seems like you don't know us well.

I lived on a horse-drawn cart for almost my whole life.

- Have you ever ridden such a vehicle? - No. I have not.

Our village, our home was wherever our horses could go.

We would sleep in one village, just to wake up in another one the next morning.

My father was a drummer. He would dance one folk dance here, another there.

Thump, thump, boom and boom he played that drum.

I can still hear all the beats.

I thought a lot about it; I told myself "I will never do this job."

Here, in Diyarbakır,

there was a craft master in the old market. His name was Kapo, an Armenian.

He knew everything. From kerosene burner to camera. I learned from him.

As they say: the hands of a master are gold, they don't rot.

We have a language; people call it "birds' language".

The language of Roma people, of "Gypsies". Haven't you ever heard of it?

How could you hear it, we never speak it.

We have to speak the languages of the places we go to.

Hurry up! Run! Zilan run!

It is a whole new stage that has just started.

We are the main obstacle preventing the enemy from reaching their goals.

First of all, we have to discuss the safety of our people here

and the possibility of their evacuation.

Comrade Çiyager, let me tell you this:

Those who wanted to leave, already did.

As for those who stayed; if they had wanted, they could have gone too.

Would it have been possible for anyone to make Uncle Salih leave for example?

This is not about what people want or not, anymore!

The enemy already has done everything they could to empty Sur.

I am now speaking in my name, as a child from Sur, from Diyarbakır.

The enemy will not get inside my house. That's all I have to say.

You are right, comrade Yilmaz.

But we need to stay a bit calmer.

Not since First World War has this place been the scene of so much violence.

It has never seen this much barbarity.

Whatever happens we won't let the people be massacred.

Our primary mission is to protect the pride and honor of our people,

as well as their safety.

And never forget this, comrades:

In case there is a sacrifice to do for Diyarbakır, for Kurdistan,

we will be the first to sacrifice.

There are tanks around Diyarbakır, there are tanks.

The armies besieged the city on four sides.

The armies besieged the city on four sides.

City walls will almost rise up, the walls of Sur.

They wish I died before seeing the day.

They wish I died before seeing the day.

In 1915, The Turkish state did not destroy

these beautiful cities and wonderful churches.

But what else has it done?

It slaughtered the Assyrians, Chaldeans and us, Armenians.

After a hundred of years, today in 2015,

what is the Turkish state doing?

It's destroying the beautiful cities of Kurds with cannons.

Yes, isn't it?

Before I leave; let me remind you of the story of the flood and the carpenter;

"Oh master carpenter, go to sleep as usual, there is only one God

but he opens thousands and thousands of doors."

The 52th day.

Against all this barbarity, there are only 50-60 young people resisting.

Most of them had not held weapons before.

Against these young people,

and in addition to the thousands of policeman and army forces,

they have now brought the tanks.

We are now completely under siege.

52nd day of the siege

Our tunnel wasn't reaching an end.

Wherever we dug, walls would appear to hinder us.

At first, we didn't understand where these walls would come from.

Not until Yabo brought us a map...

It was a map of underground tunnels connecting the churches of the city.

It seems that even hundreds of years ago

when there were massacres on this ground, the people had to hide underground.

Now, according to the map we are here. Our tunnel has arrived here.

While the church tunnel is just here. So we arrived at the wall of the church.

That is to mean, if we dig through this way we will arrive at the church tunnel.

This time we will definitely succeed. Now we have a map too.

Wow, wow!

Comrade Çiyager, would you come? It's very important.

Why didn't you tell me that you were digging a tunnel? I could have helped also.

It got really cold, although there is no snow.

It is very difficult to remain in positions.

The state brought twelve tanks in.

Someone else put my shoes on, comrade...

Comrade Raman, send Zafer in.

So what?

Here is Sur.

Half of the people here smoke this.

I just got addicted to it.

I saw you...

I saw you cutting the wires of mines close to the Kurshunlu front.

He is an agent of the state.

I saw him many times but couldn't understand what he was doing.

Kenan, don't make it difficult for us. Speak up as men!

Look, you caused the martyrdom of many comrades.

You too know that this is the end of the story for you.

What was your task here?

What was it?

After the trenches were dug...

We were finding out the mines, they were giving us more money.

We were paid for each cable we cut.

That's all?

That's all.

Don't lie, you dishonored. Talk about the phone you tried to give to me.

Why did you ask me to put it where comrade Nucan is sleeping? Why, huh, why?

Dilan!

I was also giving the coordinates of the houses YPS members were staying.

They were constantly asking questions about you and Nucan.

I was going to give the coordinates of your places...

How were you delivering the coordinates?

By phone...

Sending texts, then leaving the place while leaving the phone there.

What is the PIN of your mobile phone?

06-35.

Well then.

Now send a message to your bosses.

We are here, tell them to come and catch us.

Tell them Çiyager and Nucan are here, hurry.

Look we tell the truth, aren't we both here?

- But... - Write it I said!

- You are tired, have a sleep! - No, I don't want to.

Look, all three are from Serhed region. From Kars, Digor and Mush.

What a coincidence.

Do you believe in coincidence?

Sometimes.

I remember the first time I came to Diyarbakır.

It was raining.

I remember well when I was in secondary school.

The rest of the students would say: "I will go to this university",

"I will study in that department".

All that mattered to me was to go to Diyarbakır.

This is what happened, I got to Diyarbakır and the years went by.

Next thing I know, I enroll with the guerillas in the mountains of Diyarbakır.

And now, I'm in the streets of Diyarbakır,

in the middle of a tough war.

Well, do you think this is a coincidence?

Undoubtedly, it's not a coincidence.

Then what do you think it is, comrade Yilmaz?

Maybe it has something to do with what you're seeking for...

Seeking for...

...that there would be a massacre in Cizre.

More than 40 days have passed, and we are calling on the international community;

to bear responsibility and not ignore what is happening in Kurdistan.

Kurdistan for which more than 40 000 people died for.

The government of AKP wants to invade it completely and expropriate it.

It is true that we are thirsty, hungry, that we don't live healthily.

But we live honorably. And we will resist 'till the last moment.

Mehmet Tunç, Co-President of The People's Assembly of Cizre

In Cizre, what mostly scared the enemy, was this.

These words, such speeches.

He says, "I will not obey".

"Oh my, oh my."

Huh... Comrade Nucan, this song is for you.

"Mamad Ali stood up."

"The one who united the tribes."

"Fought against the Ottomans."

"He did not accept the tyrants."

64th day of the siege

"Oh my Memo, Mamad Ali."

"Oh my beloved boy, Mamad Ali."

"Young man, you are 24 years old."

"In love with Huri, the one who shall heal the wounds of your heart"

"Oh my, Oh my."

"Oh Agçadağı, oh white Mount."

"You have gardens on one side, forest on the other."

"The enemy, those monsters, got greedy looking at you."

"They turned you into wreck."

"Oh my Memo, Mamad Ali."

"Oh my beloved boy, Mamad Ali."

"Young man, you are 24 years old."

"In love with Huri, the one who shall heal the wounds of your heart"

"Oh my, Oh my."

"They sent the death order by telegraph from Harpoot."

"A fire was set in Kurecik."

"Thus how his tribe was informed."

"That Mamad Ali was excuted."

"Oh my Memo, Mamad Ali."

"Oh my beloved boy, Mamad Ali."

"Young man, you are 24 years old."

"In love with Huri, the one who shall heal the wounds of your heart"

Comrade Dicle.

Comrade Dicle.

I got Avesta's revenge.

I got his revenge...

Don't tire yourself. You opened your eyes. That's enough for us.

How long have I been here?

It's been ten or fifteen days.

Comrade, your mannequin became their target board.

It can't fool them any more.

How many graves have I dug up to now.

Till Crimea, Bosnia, Mosul, Kirkuk.

Crescent and star, cover of the red apple.

To be a member of the special forces.

To be an Ottoman grandchild.

We are proud of it, we are proud of it now.

Allahu akbar!

They entered to the mosque courtyard. Now they want to burn the rest of it.

Well then. Yilmaz! Sarya! We will control the line. And you be careful.

Okay!

- Are the Molotovs ready? - Yes, they are.

Comrades, there are tanks. Take your positions!

Comrades, tank!

Diler!

Ready?

Target the building on the right.

Serum.

Bring blood serum.

I need a needle and some thread.

We have no more medicine left.

I don't know what to do.

If we don't take him to the hospital we won't be able to save him.

The most difficult thing for us is the situation of our heavily wounded comrades.

We are out of the most basic medicines.

Diler's injury was very bad.

Almost every one was hopeless about his situation.

However, comrade Çiyager came and said,

"No matter what it takes, we will take Diler outside the siege

and let him get medical treatment."

The best thing available to carry Diler with, was a coffin.

I will turn back from here.

Comrades, from now on Diler is up to you.

Move carefully, it seems like this will be a long night!

Were you there when my brother martyred?

I mean, in that exact moment...

Yes. I was there.

He was shot; he was shot in his left arm, in the belly and in the hand.

I remember when he said "I am wounded, rescue me!"

Yilmaz and the others were behind us.

Yilmaz called my name, said: "we have your back, run".

He said "Take the comrade and run." He said "Run..."

I took him on my back.

I could feel his breath on my neck.

I can still feel his breath on my neck.

I shouted,

"We're coming, it's us."

Then I ran.

I swear I ran.

We were almost there. Almost...

A bullet sound came.

Right here, I felt a pain.

I looked. It was blood.

I put him on the ground.

He was still smiling.

He was smiling just like you.

That perfidious bullet passed through the back of Andok.

His body stopped that bullet.

Nothing happened to me.

But he...

I could not run faster.

I couldn't...

No one can run faster than a bullet...

So the person Hogir was carrying to save his life, ended up saving Hogir's life.

This was the miracle of Hogir and Andok.

Hogir just wanted to keep this memory alive.

Emptying the muddy water from the tunnel became a big problem.

No matter how much water we drained from the tunnel

there was always new water filling it.

It was almost impossible to dig with the water there.

Tonight there was another miracle.

Diler didn't give up on life, even within a coffin.

What is it again?

In brief comrades, we completed the tunnel.

We won't forget the efforts of brother Yabo.

Comrade, you were saying in brief.

In brief comrade, you, mother Sultan, Feride and brother Yabo.

You are the first group, you will get out.

As for the second group, we will take the wounded comrades out.

Go where, comrade?!

What about you?

Don't... Don't make any fuss, comrades! So the people outside don't realize you.

The enemy must in no way know about this. No one must.

We chose you, but there may not be a second chance.

Then again we are not telling you to leave here and go home.

Everyone will keep doing their parts.

Surrender! This is the end. All your friends died.

There is no turning back now.

84th day of the siege

Şervan the Pirate, run!

Surrender yourself into the merciful arms of the JÖH and PÖHs.

Comrade Raman, catch it!

The three-lettered ones are waiting for you on the main street.

If you are not coming, show yourselves.

Don't be coward! If you're not going to play then we're leaving.

If I haven't tired it, you would never catch it.

This is for you.

Comrades, is there a chance that the enemy poisoned and sent this chicken?

Wait, I'll try first.

What a pity!

This poor chicken got depressed because of Raman.

It almost surrendered to enemy.

They said, "Not even a bird will pass through".

However, this chicken of us broke the siege and came.

Don't throw the bones in the fire, comrade! It smells.

That's the point of it. We are trying to look rich.

We flaunt ourselves with an uncooked chicken?

What else would we do!

I've been biting my lips as if to make them bleed.

Because every word turns into a curse in my mouth.

I say, I wish there would be a thunderstorm, rainfall at least...

Wish this silence would end, this dirty stickiness.

Then again, would not a deluge be enough.

There must be something torn and broken.

Something being torn and broken day and night.

Comrades, the enemy, the enemy...

It's time to act. Take your positions, everybody! Move carefully!

Comrade Yilmaz, you inform Chinar, we are beginning the action.

Comrade Chinar!

Slowly, slowly!

What did you do comrade Chinar?

I told the locations of the mines and the trigger to all comrades.

Well then, I am going up.

Raman! Get out quickly!

Mezlum!

Comrade Nucan!

We need to do something to stop these tanks.

We are running out of ammo.

All the comrades have to be careful how much they use.

Let's make it clear now.

From now on, no comrade should shoot more than three bullets at an enemy soldier.

The tunnel is entirely gone.

No electricity, no gasoline for the generator.

In other words, we are done.

That tunnel was an opportunity for our heavily wounded comrades.

But the thing that will determine the end is not the tunnel or something else.

What will determine the end is hope and resistance.

When hope and resistance come together, no matter what happens.

The end will be spectacular.

Comrades! This soul of our resistance will spread over Kurdistan sooner or later.

For this reason, our first aim is to break this blockade

and take the resistance out.

Whatever it costs, we will send a group of comrades out...

This is our new task.

All people should know about the resistance of Sur, we need to tell them.

Refusing to go outside will be considered the biggest act of selfishness.

The first group that we are about to declare,

do not object! Because this is a direct order!

The second group, in order to help the comrades getting out

will strike the enemy and change the direction of the operation.

Comrades!

Break the siege and get out!

Tell everyone about the martyrs of Sur!

About the resistance of Sur!

March 12, 2016 100th day of the siege

Don't forget the footages from the camera!

I need to record till the end.

There is still more until the end.

May you do well!

Much success!

Come on boys! Move forward!

Be careful about the upstairs and windows!

Bomb!

Chief, they are attacking!

- Hurry up! - Come on come on!

Bring the stretcher!

Terrorist!

Afat, Afat!

Asi? Listening.

Comrade, don't let anyone come near that building.

The ones there are from us. Don't leave your positions.

Understood, comrade.

Çiyager!

Çiyager, I know you hear me.

Give it up! You have no place to run! Surrender!

Çiyager!

Don't think you know us, just because you know my name.

Who are you?

How come you are telling us to surrender? On whose behalf?

Okay, let's talk frankly and come to agreement.

I am Major Nuri Kara.

Talking on the behalf of the State of The Republic of Turkey.

Leave your weapons and surrender.

I know not only the name, but also your past and the war here.

Do not ruin yourself and your family.

Look, Major Nuri Kara speaking on behalf of the state!

I accept, you know a little bit about us.

But we know you very well.

After 100 days you still don't understand

what you should have understood on the first day, I am disappointed.

Çiyager, don't give me propaganda.

You have no place to run. Surrender and save your life, I said.

Get this into your head! Apoists never surrender!

And they will not die until each house stone you burned and destroyed

becomes the tombstone of you fascists!

We are moving forward.

Move soldier. Don't be scared. Move!

May you be well comrade Reber. How's it going?

It's good, comrade.

Everything is going on according to the plan.

Everyone took their positions and they are ready.

Well then. Make sure nobody rushes!

- Delil, mind the window! - Yilmaz!

Hogir! Hogir!

Delil, back me! Hogir!

Comrades, go!

Hogir are you hurt? Hold on until I get you out of here.

Andok...

We had promised that we would never fall apart.

Don't...

Don't worry comrade Yilmaz.

We are killing death itself.

He was able to sacrifice his life for Kobane.

So we do for Sur...

Comrade Delil, Comrade Delil.

Forget about me, comrade. Carry on the mission.

Let the JÖHs come from back there. Come!

Trap!

Careful!

We are going in!

Come on my lions! We are getting in!

They got into the hospital.

What are you waiting for, son! Clean them up!

"They died but never surrendered!"

Suleyman! Suleyman! Get off now!

Is it Kalashnikov?

From the left side!

Commandant, they're four five people.

Aim ahead of you!

- He is coming from the right side! - Pull back!

- Pull back, back now! - No, from the left!

- Just fire, shoot! - Come on!

- Bring the stretcher! - Stay fucking low!

Bastards!

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight!

Mahmud stay down! Fire!

Wait! Wait for the shield!

This is my homeland.

This is my home.

You cannot get in without permission!

Ignominious invader!

You Turanian invaders!

You cannot just enter my home!

Comrades, shall we set off?

The End Will Be Spectacular

On March 12, 2016,

42 fighters launched their last attacks to break the siege of the Turkish army.

In this last two-day conflict,

35 fighters, including Çiyager (Cihat Türkan) lost their lives.

During all the clashes, 74 people,

including children and elderly people, lost their lives.

Seven people managed to get out of the siege.

Şervan The Pirate (Yusuf Özadanır) and Haki (Uğur Yakışır),

who played themselves in the film,

were among those who came out of the siege.

Despite the end of the armed conflict, Sur continued to be a "prohibited" region.

The old city, surrounded by 4,000-year-old walls,

was almost completely destroyed

and multi-unit apartments began to be built upon it.

In the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner

for Human Rights (OHCHR) dated July 2015-December 2016,

the following findings were located;

Of the 2,000 people who lost their lives in more than 30 Kurdish cities,

800 were soldiers or police, and 1200 were civilians or armed persons.

Some 335.000-500.000 people were forced to leave their homes.

In Cizre city, in the beginning of 2016, 189 men, women and children,

who were burned to death due to heavy bombardments,

were stranded in building basements for weeks before dying.

In Nusaybin, it is estimated that 70 percent of the 1,786 buildings

that were destroyed, were done so by artillery fire.

Sur and Nusaybin's pre-war and post-war satellite photographs

show that some neighborhoods have been destroyed completely.

Subtitles: ECLAIR SPAIN