Konstandinos Erik Scurfield (Kemal), a British YPG fighter who died in a clash in Til Berak on 2 March, was buried at a funeral in Nottingham on Thursday which was attended by hundreds of Kurds, including PYD Co-president Salih Muslim.
Konstandinos Erik Scurfield (Kemal), a British YPG fighter who died in a clash in Til Berak on 2 March, was buried at a funeral in Nottingham on Thursday which was attended by hundreds of Kurds, including PYD Co-president Salih Muslim.
Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, a British citizen who died in a clash with ISIS gangs in the village of Til Berak in the Qamişlo district of Rojava, was buried after a funeral in Nottingham attended by hundreds of Kurds. The coffin was covered in YPG, YPJ, TEV-DEM, UK and Greek flags.
A ceremony organised by the Kurdish People’s Assembly in Britain commenced with a one-minute’s silence followed by speeches by Assembly member Ercan Akbal and PYD Co-president Salih Müslim. The coffin was then taken into the Greek Orthodox church, where a religious ceremony took place. The church was not big enough to hold all those who attended the funeral and hundreds were left outside the church. .
After the religious ceremony Scurfield was buried at the Wilford Hill cemetery in the city, with the coffin being buried along with the flags that had been placed on it, at his mother’s request. The Kurds shouted the slogan ‘Martyrs are immortal’. An olive tree was planted on Scurfield’s grave, which was festooned with thousands of flowers, as he had told his comrades before he died that he wished to be buried in the shade of an olive tree.
