In the organizer's words:

Gamze Kubaşık and Semiya Şimşek lost their fathers as a result of the series of murders committed by the right-wing terrorist NSU. Enver Şimşek was murdered in Nuremberg on September 9, 2000 and Mehmet Kubaşık in Dortmund on April 4, 2006 by the right-wing terrorist NSU. In addition to Enver Şimşek and Mehmet Kubaşık, the NSU murdered Abdurrahim Özüdoğru, Süleyman Taşköprü, Habil Kılıç, Mehmet Turgut, İsmail Yaşar, Theodoros Boulgarides, Halit Yozgat and Michèle Kiesewetter between 2000 and 2007.

Gamze Kubaşık and Semiya Şimşek will speak at the reading about their family history, their fathers, the NSU complex and their fight for clarification and remembrance. They will talk about how they experienced the shocking events at the time and how the murders tore them out of their previous lives. But also how they were able to develop a tremendous strength together that allows them to continue fighting to this day: against forgetting and for a future without exclusion. The young people's book "Our pain is our strength" addresses these issues and the work of remembering.

Until the so-called self-disclosure of the NSU in November 2011, the relatives of the victims were not taken seriously by law enforcement authorities, administration and politics, but also by parts of the media, left alone and even suspected of being involved in the murders and attacks themselves. The ignorance and false accusations against the victims and their families were often characterized by racist attitudes. Their demands for a complete investigation into the NSU's crimes and the neo-Nazi network behind them were not met in the following years, and the role that domestic intelligence services and law enforcement agencies played in the NSU complex remains unclear to this day.

Gamze Kubaşık and Semiya Şimşek met at the silent march in Kassel in May 2006, which the Yozgat family, whose son Halit was murdered in his internet café on 6 April 2006, had organized under the slogan "No tenth victim!". Since then, they have been fighting together for clarification, remembrance and consequences.

The reading will be moderated by Ali Șirin.

Info: Recommended for ages 14 and up. Thematization of racism and murder.

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