ABSTRACT
I was born in 1959 in the town of Silopi outside Mardin. I don’t know exactly where I was born. We were living as nomads. We would set up our tents for the night in one place, and in the morning we’d be off again. By the time we settled in a village, I was already four or five. That place I remember: a village made up mostly of horsehair tents, with a few stone houses. It was known as Varto village. The name comes from my grandfather Vartan.
