Mazlum Dogan
Mazlum Doğan (* 1955 in Karakoçan ; † March 21, 1982 in Diyarbakır Prison ) was a high-ranking Kurdish PKK cadre and a member of the PKK Central Committee.
He received his school education in Balıkesir . In 1976 he took part in the student movement that was the forerunner of the PKK. He was the first editor-in-chief of the Serxwebûn newspaper . In 1979 he was arrested. They were charged with membership in the PKK, helping to found and running the organization, participating in the kidnapping of a party member from the Diyarbakır state hospital and using a false identity.
At the age of 27, Mazlum Doğan set fire to his cell in the Turkish prison in Diyarbakır on March 21, 1982, the day when the Kurds celebrate their Newroz festival and Newroz fires are lit in protest against the Turkish government, and hanged himself. With this act he wanted to draw attention to the abuses in the Turkish prisons. Torture was systematically used by the state in Turkish prisons at that time. This action by Mazlum Doğan marked the start of a series of hunger strikes and resistance actions by political prisoners in 1982.
Mazlum Doğan's act has since been honored in the PKK and its surrounding organizations in the form of commemorative events. The PKK has named its cadre school after him and annually organizes youth festivals in several European countries that bear his name.
literature
- Serdar Çelik : The story of August 15th. Ten years of armed liberation struggle in Northern Kurdistan . Self-published in 1995
- Mehdi Zana : Hell No. 5. Diary from a Turkish prison . Ed. And edit. by Gerd Schumann, Göttingen 1997 ISBN 3-89533-209-7
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| SURNAME | Dogan, Mazlum |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zaza PKK cadre, member of the PKK Central Committee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karakoçan , Elazığ |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1982 |
| Place of death | Diyarbakır Prison |