About Refugees, By Refugees

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story

“I was thinking like that we don’t deserve that because we don’t do anything bad. W

e just living there.” Med (pseud, 21), who is Kurdish, recalls that she was forced to leave Turkey due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Today, loud noises remind her of bomb attacks, and she’s no longer as talkative as she used to be: “When… something bad happened… I don’t want to speak. I just want to be alone.” Living as a refugee in Edinburgh, Med says she misses her family back home — but enduring the separation has also made her strong: “I think I’m a strong person because I left my family, I miss them but I still — I’m still standing, you know?” These days, her goal is to improve her English. “My dream is… finish my university, my lecture, doing my work, start my work,” she states, “and then I want to do master’s, doctor, and then start to work in a university, become a teacher and I want to draw… I really want to be good at it and travel the world.” Full Story