The State and Contentious Politics:
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“I was invited by Isa to his house to have lunch with his mother and siblings. ‘My sisters will love you. You are a good role model for them. I want them to study, like you,” he said to me to convince me to go to the lunch. His father was disappeared by the security forces in 1992 when Isa was 14 years old and his youngest brother was just couple of months old, and his family was forced by the army to leave their village on 1993. Now he lives in one of Diyarbakir’s inner city neighborhoods with his mother, three younger sisters and one 12 year-old brother...Isa said that he wants his brother Azat to be a script writer; “Azat likes theaters very much... He will do good things in the future, I promise! You will see him and thenyou will understand.” he added. Isa had never attended the secondary school and when I asked him if he had a job, he said to me that he was “working for the struggle [mücadele]”. He wants the oldest sister Hacer to continue in the high school; “She is more into getting married. I would prefer her to think of her education. I couldn’t, but I tell her she can... ” His sister, Berfin opened the door with hesitation and a concerned look. After Isa introduced me [and my assistant] to her, she started smiling and admitted that I looked to her ‘like not from here’ and she thought at first I was an under cover cop. A female cop with civilian clothing had once been there to ask them about Isa’s whereabouts. Something had happened and they got suspicious that Isa was involved. They very likely knew that there would be no adult man in the household other than Isa, so they sent a female cop, “as tall as you are”, to ask them questions. “Isa did not do anything wrong” she said timidly... I told her that I was a Turk too. She said, “Yes, but you are a good one”...”
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تاریخ انتشار 2008