The collective imprisonment of political figures who are expressing the desires of the Kurdish people is an old reflex of Turkey’s state tradition. Collective arrests that started in 1959 with the imprisonment of forty-nine Kurdish intellectuals turned into collective executions in the 1990s and..
Selin Pelek and Foti Benlisoy
Selin Pelek works at Galatasaray University in Istanbul.
Foti Benlisoy is an author and activist based in Istanbul.