It's still a tradition in some parts of Turkey and surrounding lands that girls are given to be married at a young age (as little as 10) to become brides in exchange for land, goods and money for the arranged families. These girls are silenced to choose whom they could marry, or to even have a voice. In the case of disagreement , punished by their own families.. Still to be given away...

The night before the marriage, the women of her families gathers the bride in a circle of ritual, where she sits under a red veil and permitted & encouraged to grief and offer her tears for her transition, leaving her family behind in stepping into her womanhood...as mothers watch her silently crying .. 

Countless folk songs have been written and shared for these nights of deep grief...to acknowledge and bring some soothing to this ancient wound...this is one of those songs.
- Tutku Tezveren

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