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'Turkey is a prison for the Kurds' says
writer Akhanli
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Author Doğan Akhanlı says Turkey has become a prison
for the Kurds. "During my imprisonment I was the
only one who was ethnically Turkish. Photo: DIHA
February 15, 2012
ISTANBUL, — Author Doğan Akhanlı says
Turkey has become a prison for the Kurds. "During my
imprisonment I was the only one who was ethnically
Turkish.
Everybody I met in prison was Kurdish. I have been
arrested before. The prisons were not like this
before and in the past there were Turkish prisoners
as well. This current situation is proof that the
state defines the Kurds as suspects.
The judges and prosecutors are ready to send the
defendant to jail if s/he is Kurdish. Turkey is a
prison for the Kurds. I cannot interpret this
situation otherwise," tells Akhanlı.
Akhanlı points out that the 100-year old
Turkification project is still being carried out
today. "But there are those who refuse to be
Turkified," he adds, "What to do with them? Either
annihilating them as they did 100 years ago or
coming to an agreement with them.
A year ago it seemed like an agreement was possible
but now I see that the tendency is to cling on the
official state ideology [of turkification]."
Akhanlı notes that any democratic country in Europe
would collapse after an incident like Roboski where
34 civilians were killed in air raids. "The
government should not continue to rule with this
shame," comments Akhanlı.
Akhanlı says the prime minister's wish to bring up a
faithful youth means the owning of the establishing
ideology of the Turkish state and points out to its
danger not only for the atheists or the secularists
but also for the Alevis,www.ekurd.net
Christians and Jews.
Doğan Akhanlı was born in the Şavşat Town of Artvin
in 1957. He was imprisoned in the Metris Prison from
1982 to 1984. He had to leave Turkey in 1991 and he
went to Germany.
He was arrested a second time in 2010 upon his
arrival in Turkey on the charges of an exchange
office robbery. He is the author of several novels,
including Madonna'nın Son Hayali (Madonna's Last
Dream) which was chosen one of the best books of
2005 by critics.
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