The arbitrary maps and artificial borders that were drawn by imperial and colonial powers of Europe after the  First World War, as the reflection of a secret agreement known as Sykes-Picot Agreement; and the Iran-Turkey border that was previously (17. Century) drawn by imperial Persian and Ottoman dynasties; tore apart not only peoples that used to live (and still live) on each side of those borders (be it Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Yezidis, Chaldeans, Armenians, Azeris, Turkmens), namely in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, but separated relatives and families from one another as well. Since then, fellow humans, relatives and families on each side of those borders have been trying to keep in touch only through a deadly and tragic challenge that risks their lives: passing through barbed wires and mined fields, becoming target to the bullets fired at them by border patrols, or getting caught either to be executed by the order of hostile military commanders, or being imprisoned and punished in a variety of other ways. Thus, Ahmed Arif, a Kurdish poet from Diyarbekir who wrote his poems in Turkish, wrote these lines, to draw our attention to the ongoing tragedy as early as 1968: "We never got used to passports / This is the guilt that kills us / We end up / Being called / Bandits / Killers / Traitors..." (Translation: Murat Nemet-Nejat).

State authorities of the region are well aware of those facts. The authorities in Turkey even made an agreement with those in Syria, years ago, to allow the families on both sides of the border meet two times a year, during Muslim festivities called Eid (Bayram in Turkish). Besides, local people do not call the border between Syria and Turkey as border, but name it xet, which means line in languages spoken in the region, and refers to the railway passing through the whole region (built by the German Empire before the First World War, apparently to lay the infrastructure for realizing their colonial ambitions in the future). However, the state authorities in Turkey have recently begun to construct a wall on this border with Syria, which is aimed to cut any sort of direct/physical contact or communication between peoples who live on each side of the border. The motive behind this hideous project that has received huge waves of criticism from many in Turkey and Kurdistan of Syria is believed to be isolating the Kurds of Rojava (Kurdistan of Syria), who have a de-facto autonomy in north-eastern Syria, and to deteriorate the already dire conditions of the peoples of Rojava, in order to diminish grounds of support for the Kurdish political actors of Rojava, who are in disagreement with the traditional Kurdish policy of the Turkish state. As we believe in the equality of human beings with regard to dignity, and respect all, we also believe that all arbitrary maps and artificial borders that separate human beings from one another, on whatever basis, should be lessened, trivialized, and if possible, finally, eliminated. Therefore, we sign this petition in solidarity with the people of the town Nisêbîn/Nusaybin/Nisibis, to support them in their protest against the ongoing construction of the wall. We call on the government of Turkey to immediately stop the construction of the wall and not to follow the example of Israeli-Palestinian wall in Kurdistan.