Breast Tattooing Of Turkish Women

Deq is an ancient Kurdish tattoo with ink from a newborn woman's milk and soot or ash. Turkish women's breastmilk tattoo To southeastern Turkey, in the In remote villages in the Mardin, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır provinces in Turkey as well as in the Kurdish neighborhoods, you will find the art of tattooing faces and bodies very popular. Ayse Yusufoglu, 84, shares about the tattoo on her face and hand at her home in the village of Alukus, near Kiziltepe, a town in the province of Mardin, Turkey. Older women have tattoos on the chin, hands, nostrils, forehead, neck, ankles and breasts. Some have geometric shapes, others resemble stars, birds, the sun or the moon

. They represent the very old Kurdish tattoo technique called deq in the vernacular. Although this tattoo is increasingly fading, deq used to be a way of beautifying the faces of women here. Each symbol has its own meaning, rooted in the satisfaction, hope, pain or fear from the human body Traditionally, tattoos have been created through a mixture of new woman's milk.



Daughter mixed with soot or ash. The reason for using breast milk from a girl's mother is the belief that breastmilk can make tattoos never disappear. Sometimes, a mixture of tattoo ink can be obtained from an animal's gallbladder. As the first step, an old lady draws a picture on the skin and makes small dots with a sewing needle. Deq is a very painful tattooing process for women, but the tattoo after completion will last forever. The symbols when tattooed deq have many different meanings, but most of them express the desire to protect women from the dark forces. They are believed to bring abundant health, cure illnesses and are linked to the ability to have children and to connect with the community One-eye tattoos are believed to deflect evil eyes, while the antelope will bring good luck to the tattooed.



A sun or a moon is meant for a healthy life, and a centipede like a centipede can help with better family management. With a desire for beauty, the Kurds will tattoo the moon or a star. The symbol V means the identity of the tribe. Geometries or animal figures often represent aspirations about reproduction. Degradation over time Deq is an "accessory" that elderly women in southeastern Turkey are proud to show off to everyone. In 2016, American photographer Jodi Hilton traveled to Syria and then moved to a refugee camp in Turkey. There she took many documentary photos of women who finally used the deq tattoo technique. Jodi shared on his personal website: "Some symbols come from the Yezidi religion - the ancient Kurdish religion, including the sun, the moon, the stars, the peacock, are all seen on the tattoos.



" In the 1960s in Kurdish regions living in northern Syria, many women avoided getting tattooed deq, because it was not only disrespectful but also out of date. Today, traditional imprints can be found on simple small spots on a woman's forehead, nose, or chin. Tattoos in Kobani (a Syrian city bordering Turkey's south) are living artifacts for people in the past, Jodi told National Geographic: "I saw them in Turkey. Ky in both Arabs and Kurds, especially the Urfa province, but the tattoo still appears in Kobani and I realize that this tradition has grown across the border to Syria. On both sides of the border, people connect by language, tribe, and national identity, so maybe they also share many other cultures. ”Said Said, 70, from Girik Village in Kobani "We might be the last to have the deq tattoo," told Jodi. Amina Saleh, 60, who lives in the Suruç refugee camp, Sanliurfa province, Turkey, also has tattoos on her face since she was 10 years old. Nowadays, deq tattoo is only found in women over 60 years old, younger girls can create temporary tattoos on the face for special occasions like weddings.



Some men have deq tattoos, mostly on their arms or hands. Late last November, Umit Bektas, a Reuters reporter, traveled to the southeastern provinces of Turkey and took pictures of these tattooed women. deq.Hulu Aydogdu, 87, from Kisas village, told Reuters that traditionally they used soot from the bottom of a pot to cook with wood and mixed it with the milk of a newborn girl to make tattoo ink. Photo: REUTERS / Umit Bektas. According to Huong Chi / Vnexpress ***.

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