Elu Aiyana is a tattoo artist with Kurdish roots from Dersim ... Xal (pronounced as Khal), also known by some communities as Deq, which is the traditional but fading style of tattooing by hand.

In order to keep the tradion alive she's opened a workshop in Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish ... request tattoos such as the moon, sun, star, and comb, known as the motifs of deq.