Quickfire Dialogue with Selîm Temo

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

Isn’t it enough? 

Who is the person that you love most? 

My son. 

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

Violence. 

What is your favourite book?

Fathers and Sons (Turgenyev).

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

I would like Resoyê Gopalan to come to my grave and say: “I wish death was twice.” 

What worries you the most?

Not being able to pay my home’s rent. 

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

Doctor Fuad.

Which period do you want to live in?

On 26 January 2015, minute 15.10

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

What I have lived, I am living and I will live. 

What would you most like to do before you die?

I would want a garden. 

What do you most dream about?

What is a dream? 

What is the pain in your heart in this life?

All of your questions are about grief. 

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

My memory.

What is your biggest achievement?

Staying alive.

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