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“Everyone carries within them refugee anxieties that yearn to migrate to a state of relief; let us be the Ansar and open our arms so that those migrant pains may find their way to us, find healing, recover, and let all these immigrant sorrows end in brotherhood…” Şener İşleyen “It is difficult to migrate. It is even more difficult to be forced to leave a place. Considering that even the smallest piece of land left behind is of invaluable worth, resisting is the most honorable struggle, no matter how inevitable migration may be. To resist for one’s own existence, for what is sacred, is the holiest war. For years, we have been left with the misfortune of being mere observers of these wars. While some have ended with great losses and forced migrations, others continue in the most brutal ways. To resist is not to bend. It is to stand tall against the oppressor, even when one is exhausted. As unfortunate people who cannot do much, we must say ‘we must do something’ for all our brothers and sisters, from the nearest to the farthest, who are resisting the oppressor, and we must provide any help that might act as a balm to their wounds, along with our heartfelt prayers. Şener İşleyen drops us right into the middle of a distant pain. Muhacir Sancılar (Migrant Pains) is a long and arduous journey where we bear witness to the stories of geographies kneaded with pain. Through these stories, we witness lives that capture a cross-section of existence—most of all its sufferings—exactly at the level of our hearts. These lives, which we all encounter everywhere like a destiny, are painted in the colors of sorrow from the East and the West, accompanying us as a life of suffering and as a debt of honor. Şener İşleyen’s fluent style and mastery of the geography set all the migrant birds within us to flight. Muhacir Sancılar continues to travel from land to land.” Mustafa Uçurum