It's Not A Tattoo, It's Deq
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Kurdish deq tattoo is a traditional form of body art with deep historical roots and significance across several cultures.
Spanning thousands of years and multiple continents, these tattoos were a long-standing common practice especially amongst older women, but the art form has witnessed a decline in recent years amongst younger generations. In this love letter to Kurdish women and their practices, meet Fatê Temel, the young woman practicing and preserving this endangered tradition against all odds.
#Tattoo #Deq #Travel
00:00 Intro
00:15 How Fatê's story began
00:37 Meet Fatê
1:10 What is deq?
1:43 What differentiates the deq from a modern tattoo?
02:26 Deq motifs
03:09 Meet Hatice
03:31 Fatê gives Hatice a deq
03:57 The decline of deq
04:59 How Fatê learnt to give the tattoo
05:21 Fatê's first deq
06:00 Opening her first studio
06:41 Reasons why people get the deq tattoo
07:10 Meet Ruken
07:26 Fatê gives Ruken a deq
07:39 Teaching the craft
08:00 Cultural significance of Kurdish traditions
08:18 Barriers to learning about the tradition
08:38 How Fatê researches the tradition
09:03 Importance of upkeeping this tradition
10:03 Fatê’s plans for the future
Video credits:
Producer / Director: Diren Özçelik
Executive Producer: Genevieve Ingham
Editor: Steven Kelly
Graphics: Will Minns
Videographer: Aytunç Akad
Voiceover Artist: Kiran Saggu
Translator: Nesrin Soydan
Talent: Fatma Temel
Contributor: Ruken Korgan
Contributor: Hatice Subaşı
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Hey GBS thanks for the link.
It is the things like this that are lost when cultures are eradicated 😢 but it warms my heart to see her keep it alive! The Kurdish people fought for their culture for so long and while it is no longer popular media they will not be forgotten 💕🤲🏻
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This woman is absolutely amazing, I love how much of an anthropologist she has become for her own people and culture!
After her journalism job, Fate is on "deq" whilst heading to the art studio. Most of the clients who come to the studio are pagan Kurdish ladies. They have their skin "deq'd" by Fate. She is a great artist. How anemically beautiful the dermal masterpieces are!
Reminds me of the Bene Gesserit from Dune, love the symbols!
Frank Herbert based many of his characters on middle eastern people, that’s why many of the terms used by the Fremen are Arabic.. the book is an allegory for the cruel colonization of people (middle easterners) to control their natural resources/spice (oil) by the west.
That’s so tight. This world never ceased to amaze me. Thanks for bringing this to light, GBS!
Another person doing their bit to keep otherwise dying traditions going. AMAZING!!
Similar are the Kabyle people of Algeria.
They retained their culture.
I love that Great Big Story doesn't voice-over. I love hearing all these languages. 😍
This is a beautiful tradition. ❤
Foreigners who want to visit this city and see the tattoo artists need to know it's a pretty popular tourist destination in Turkey 🇹🇷. You can find comfortable hotels and safety is good 👍 The city also has a contemporary art biennial.
It's KURDISH not t*rk.
@@SadLilith--- what you mean ?
Didn’t know this before. Interesting video, thanks GBS!
I love everything about this, she is doing wonderful work!
What a cool person and a wonderful tradition! I’m so glad she’s preserving it for the future
You can see that she is proud and enjoying what she's doing while sharing her culture. She looks stunning as well☺️
Beautiful 🌿 thanks 🍼😊
Hopefully tattoo artists will see this and take interest into this kind of tattooing it looks cool
Wow this is awesome!
sad to see that people in the comments are getting into political hate speech instead of appreciating this beautiful tradition
So interesting! 😮😍
Very similar to Berber and Ehtiopian Niksat tattooes!
Wow! That’s so beautiful. Although I see the needles look pretty thick? I wonder how painful it is. All the women in these videos seem so relaxed getting their deq!
GBS Nice 🖤✍️
0:06 you have my attention
She is speaking Kurdish and not Turkish correct? When the video first started I thought it sounded similar. My friend speaks Turkish but this has a similar sound.
She’s speaking Kurmanji, Kurmanji and Turkish are not at all related, Kurdish language is related to Farsi (Persian) whereas Turkish is a Turkic language in the same language family as Mongolian.
Question i know that Islam doesn’t allow tattoos but the female amazigh have them are they allowed
Getting tattoos is haram / prohibited
@@basilmahmood1630what isn’t haram in Islam? Especially for women. Religion of peace alright. Smh
Not everyone that is middle eastern is muslim
When I was insecure and had no job I got a face tattoo.
An important aspect of this that she doesn't seem to want to specify, is that the breast milk is supposed to come from a woman who has a given birth to a daughter. That's how you get your feminine blessings
She specify this aspect at 1:54
kinda sexist tbh
BTW getting a tattoo is haram
Who care
Great, nobody asked