Sitara Thalia Ambrosio

Photojournalist and Visual Storyteller.

WOZ: Rojava before the Turkish elections - Hoping for Erdoğan's End.

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Whether Turkey or the U.S., &am... everyone just calls Abu Hoger.

Whether Turkey or the U.S., "in the end, everyone is only concerned with their own interests," says Zaher Aldin Chalil, whom everyone just calls Abu Hoger.

The so called martyrs' ... the border with Turkey begins.

The so called martyrs' cemetery "Shaid Khabat" near the city of Derik. The wife of Zaher Aldin Khalil Khalil,(56) is also buried here. In the background, the Çiyayê Cûdî mountain range rises into the sky, where the border with Turkey begins.

The drinking water in Waschokan... who has lived here since 2019.

The drinking water in Waschokani Camp is either bitter or so heavily chlorinated that it is almost undrinkable. And although she boils it, it has given her kidney stones, says Maisa Haroun, who has lived here since 2019.

"We always hope that i...orse." - Maisa Haroun.

"We always hope that it will get better - but in recent years it has only gotten worse." - Maisa Haroun.

WOZ: Rojava before the Turkish elections - Hoping for Erdoğan's End.

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WOZ: Rojava before the Turkish elections - Hoping for Erdoğan's End.

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Rojava before the Turkish elections: Hoping for Erdoğan's End
For WOZ die Wochenzeitung - written by Bartholomäus Laffert
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Turkey is repeatedly shelling targets in northeastern Syria in order to wear down the Kurds. The parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey on May 14 will therefore also be about the future of the autonomous regions.

The sky over the town of Derik in northeastern Syria, which the Kurds call Rojava, where Syria borders Turkey and Iraq, is silent. Nothing can be seen except for a few fleecy clouds and a zeppelin soaring from a U.S. military base. Zaher Aldin Chalil, 56, whom everyone here just calls Abu Hoger, stands on the roof terrace of his house, his eyes squinted because of the low sun, pointing into the distance where snow-white peaks of the Çiyayê Cûdî mountain range rise out of the green landscape. "They came from there to kill my wife."....