Aydın, a graduate student in the Cultural Studies Program at Sabancı University, conducted an oral history interview with Harun, a young man from Diyarbakır.
Aydın:
“After conducting the interview, listening to the audio and reading the transcript, it is possible for me to say that the interview went well in this regard. At the same time, as a person who aims to spend the rest of his life as an anthropologist, it taught me that approaching the interview in this way, and not interfering while interviewees construct their own narratives, can make people feel more comfortable, allowing the interview to move on to very different horizons."
From the Interview:
“When I was little, for example, in primary school, there was a group of children, like four or five children, whose families were wealthy, whose parents visited the school, like the child of the woman known as the “class mother”. There were four or five children in the class who lived in the better neighborhoods of the city. The rest were normal children like us. With these four-five children, being from Diyarbakır was a little more…I think... that’s how I remember. It wasn’t a problem with the others but with them it was a bit of a problem. For there is this too: Being from Diyarbakır was at the same time like a sign of poverty.”