Arjen from Cizre Corresponds With Alp: Us Kids of Our Country…

Arjen from Cizre responded to 12-year-old Alp: “Hello my dear friend. Us kids of our country and the world; we should be conscious for saying stop to the war.”

Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Arjen from Cizre Corresponds With Alp: Us Kids of Our Country…

Arjen living in Cizre district of Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey responded to Alp living in İstanbul.

12-year-old Alp sent a letter to the children in Cizre along with his mother who is a member of Women’s Initiative for Peace and said: “I hear news from your city and I know it isn’t right but don’t bother I‘ll say stop to all of these when I grow up.”

Same-aged Arjen living in Cizre responded to Alp:

Hello my dear friend,

Hello, my friend. I received your letter in Cizre. I thank you so much for your letter. We can build a fellowship bridge for our future since you have empathy and sympathy to our situation here. Our languages or cultures can be different but we mutually have humanity. Our mutual value is the democracy. Us kids of our country and the world; we should be conscious for saying stop to the war. Only then we can live fairly and humanly in whole wide world. We should listen to each other.

Best regards, Arjen

(ÇT/BD)

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BIA News Desk

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