“We have always worked knowing our limitations. The responsibility for the poverty these people suffer rests on others, maybe on us. Hence, we need to share our amenities with them. The poverty in Diyarbakır is manmade. Within the scope of a concept, inequality in regional development has increased since the 90s. Thus, the poverty in our city has reached an insufferable limit. We struggled to have these people return to the lifestyle they have a right to, to have them not have to beg anyone for anything. Sarmaşık Association was not a charity organization.
“Me her tim hedê xwe baş zanî û em bi vî awayî xebitîn. Sedema feqîrbûna wan, kesên din in. Ji ber vê jî em mecbur in ku îmkanên xwe yên heyî bi wan re parve bikin. Xizaniya li Amedê bi destê mirovan hat kirin. Ferqa pêşketina herêman weke konseptekî di salên 90î de zêdebû. Bi vî awayî feqîrtiya di nav bajarê me de, gihişte asteke bilind. Me hewl da ku ew kesana deste xwe ji ti kesî re venekin û jiyaneke baş ku bo wan rewa ye bijîn. Sarmaşik ne saziyeke xêrxwaz bû.”