The family of journalist Nazım Daştan, who was killed together with his colleague Cihan Bilgin in an UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) attack by the Turkish state in Rojava, is receiving condolence visits in their hometown, Diyadin district of Ağrı province.

Many journalists from Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) and Mesopotamia Women Journalists Association (MKG) visited Nazım Daştan's family and expressed their condolences on Sunday.

Speaking during the visit, DFG Van Representative Adnan Bilen said that Nazım and Cihan were murdered while reporting to the world what was happening in their geography and added: “As their colleagues, we will continue their struggle for truth with courage. We will not let down their torches that illuminate the darkness.”

Nazım Daştan's mother, Zozan Daştan, said, ‘You are all Nazım. I am proud of my child. The only thing I regret is that Nazım's goals were left unfinished. I have no worries that you will realise those goals.”

In the meantime, police prevented gatherings for Nazım Daştan at the mourning house in the district. The family then started to receive condolences in the garden of their house. Since yesterday, both the DEM Party Diyadin District Organisation and the Fatih neighbourhood where Daştan family resides have been under police blockade. Despite the police pressure and blockade, condolence visits to the family continue.

MEBYA-DER, the Association for Assistance and Solidarity with the Families of Those Disappeared in the Cradle of Civilisations. Democratic Regions Party, Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Ağrı, Iğdır and Kars provincial and district executives, Free Women's Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) activists, Doğubeyazıt and Iğdır municipality co-mayors as well as hundreds of people visited the family today to express their condolences.

Speaking after a minute of silence, MEBYA- DER Ağrı Representative Burhan Kartal said, “Nazım and Cihan sacrificed themselves for their people to share the truth. We bow with respect in front of the struggle of Free Press workers.”