Mazlum Dogan
Mazlum Dogan in the beginning of the eighties, in the city of Amed "Diyarbakir" , a young Kurdish man shrieked front of the Turkish military court saying that he will never surrender to them he will never stop asking for Kurdish Rights screaming Serhildan jiyan e Berxwedan jiyan e which means "resistance means I am alive" resistance against Turkish fascism governments it was very hard to him to say that, because of the long hours of tortures that Turkish soldiers did to him in the prison..he almost was able to stand on his foot he continued to say his words "Serhildan jiyan e Berxwedan jiyan " 20 times till he fall down the ground and pass out, this man's name was Mazlum Dogan.... On 21 March 1982, the day that Kurds celebrate "Newroz" by lighting up bonfires, Mazlum set his own cell at the AMED"Diyarbakır" Prison on fire and hanged himself in order to protest against the Turkish Government. With this act, he tried to aw...