Quickfire Dialogue with Fahriye Adsay 

If you write a letter to God, what would you say?

Since you have already created us, why are you turning your face away, bless your heart!? 

Who is the person that you love most? 

The person who I can talk to her/him for hours without fighting.

What would you not want to happen if you built a world for yourself?

No  conformism and fawning. 

What is your favourite book?

I had an answer to this question years ago but I don’t have one now. 

When you are dead, who would you most like to visit your grave? (It does not matter if s/he is dead or alive)

 Abdullah Ocalan (which also means other people) I want him to come out of his grave and say to me: you are right!)  It wasn’t worth working for this short life, it wasn’t necessary to turn the case over and over again. Of course, not necessarily. 

What worries you the most?

The conformism and recklessness of most of our intellectuals recently.   

If you scratch one name to Diyarbakir’s walls, whose name would it be?

I guess, the best name is the name of the owner of this sentence “I have scratched your name on the walls of Diyarbakir.  

Which period do you want to live in?

For me there is no ideal period; every period has bad and good sides. But I prefer this period. 

If you were born one more time, what would you do again?

I would do my work again, and the thing that I half missed, I would tack on to it.    

What would you most like to do before you die?

I would want to establish an institution or an academic organisation where it just works on research about nationalism and where the brightest Kurdish students are employed. 

What do you most dream about?

I dream about an educated class and have creative and hardworking nationalist politics.   

What is the pain in your heart in this life?

My mother, I wish I could make her more pleased. 

If you wanted to change something about yourself, what would it be?

My impatience.

What is your biggest achievement?

My Kurdish works. 

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