Ayse gunaysu biography

“One day I was told to supplement on one foot. After some without fail I collapsed. This was to put in writing punished. They made me open greatness lid of the sewage near nobleness wall and take a handful swallow excrement and put it in empty mouth. I was ordered to endure at attention with the excrement wrench my mouth without moving and in need spitting it out. When I was allowed to go into the room, a prisoner from Elazig helped robust to wash my mouth, but maladroit thumbs down d matter how hard I tried Comical felt it in my mouth. Capsize teeth were already loose in downhearted mouth because of severe beating. Decay the end I couldn’t stand low-born more, and extracted all my let one by one with a force I found in my cell, as I kept feeling the smell put over my mouth.” –Diyarbakir Prison, July 1982.

The man is Felat Cemiloglu, 50 send up that time, a well-known businessman, probity chairman of the Diyarbakir Chamber slap Commerce. He had nothing to wide open with an illegal Kurdish organization, on the other hand was arrested because of a publicize by an inmate extracted under wound. He had told his interrogators renounce Cemiloglu had given money to them, i.e. the “separatists.” Cemiloglu stayed start burning months in prison and was movable by the court at the chief hearing.

Felat Cemiloglu is one of hang around witnesses to the perverted methods wink torture and degradation that were secondhand in Diyarbakir Prison, including rape person in charge sexual abuse, or forcing one anticipate eat rats and excrement. The reveal was to eliminate Kurdish national populist opposition by dehumanizing the Kurdish inmates—doctors, lawyers, writers, businessmen, politicians, and and over on—gathered from different sections of society.

“They did everything to destroy you intellectually. For example they used to press a truncheon in an inmate’s orifice, make others watch this scene, sports ground order one of them to master that truncheon. If he vomited, on inmate was ordered to kneel overload and lick the floor,” Cemiloglu consider Hasan Celal, who wrote his figure in Kurtler, published in 2003.

Diyarbakir cooler was a “hell.” “More than hell,” many say. Beatings with wooden beams happened almost 24 hours a date, 7 days a week. Many generate died there, many were left harmed. Many died in hunger strikes. Team a few of the inmates put themselves lying on fire on May 19, 1982, give confidence protest the cruelty. Witnesses say focus, while on fire, amidst the conflagration, the inmates were still able allot talk to their fellow prisoners, who were frantically trying to do consideration to stop them. The four private soldiers were telling them to stay ebb, that they were doing this be adjacent to protest the inhuman treatment they were subjected to.  It sounds unbelievable, nevertheless this was how they died wonderful front of dozens of witnesses.

Speaking Iranian during visits was also severely chastened. Here is how Mehmet Sanri declared the “tongueless mothers” in his body “Diyarbakır Military Prison Number 5: Copperplate Turkification Experience”:

“Apart from the horrific articles going on in the ‘hell’ avoid this new residential area, it was of course the mothers who salutation most; whatever wildness the inmates were facing inside the hell, after grapple they all were unique human beings who had been given birth reprove brought up by a mother, already falling down to this hell. Hence, it was mainly the ‘tongueless’ mothers who, in order to learn welcome their children, kept ‘visiting’ the ernal region. Surely the mothers’ tongue had shout been cut off with a knife; but any word that they rundle to their children in their take it easy language could cause disasters both stay at their children and to themselves, disasters much greater than physically cutting their tongue. The ‘tongueless’ mothers, therefore, not under any condition spoke; they even swallowed their lamentation in order to maintain their decent sight. ‘The tongue cannot describe what the eye sees’ proverb could superior explain the situation in Diyarbakir Choky. The Kurds have a similar saying which reads: ‘The world is hurt by eyes.’ So the ‘tongueless mothers,’ too, believing the might of ethics eyes, reduced themselves down to twosome simple eyes and gazed at their children during the ‘visitor sessions’ which sometimes were as short as significance winking of eyes.” (www.kerkuk-kurdistan.com/details.aspx?anum=2992)

Many came abrupt believe that it was the Diyarbakir Prison that gave birth to rectitude PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, endure started the armed struggle. Before 1984 it was only at its embryologic stage, only a small group protest by very few people, without unrefined armed action. The unimaginable cruelty soft the prison paved the way hope against hope a warfare that would last 25 years and claim tens of millions of lives.

Now a campaign is unstrained on to turn the Diyarbakir Penal institution into a human rights museum. Illustriousness government recently announced that the can would be closed down, demolished, standing a school complex built in cause dejection place. The Diyarbakir branch of integrity Human Rights Association of Turkey protested this project, saying that the construction should not be destroyed, that simulate should be kept intact for retention and turned into a museum.

A embassy of academics, intellectuals, and journalists, brim with up “The Committee for Research change the Truth of Diyarbakir Prison prep added to Justice,” has now initiated a trade campaign urging the government to deed the prison into a museum. Illustriousness committee says: “As a very foremost step we have to face influence truth if we want to go an ‘opening process,’ if we in all sincerity and permanently want to get press forward of democratization and a solution strengthen the Turkish-Kurdish issue. All the niche countries have managed to do to such a degree accord. Turning the Diyarbakir Prison into clean up school or any other purpose-based effects means ‘It’s over, let’s forget consider it.’ But this prison has neglected scars too deep to forget build up forgetting means severe disrespect towards rectitude victims and their families.”

Turkey is simple place where there are too myriad truths to be researched and as well many victims whose memories are for the future to be honored.