Diyarbakir prison, a symbol of torture and oppression for decades in Turkey, has finally closed to be made into a museum, but some activists see whitewashing on its bloodstained walls.
Dozens of brightly painted coffins marked with the initials of dead Kurdish civilians were laid out on the upper battlements of an ancient fortress. A wall of street signs bearing the names of other victims and a towering pile of rubber shoes recalled the thousands killed or imprisoned during decades of conflict.
Turkish police on Sunday detained a number of people protesting against an attack on a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in Istanbul, Gazete Karinca news site reported.
Last week’s forest fires sweeping across the eastern Mediterranean not only showed Turkey’s vulnerability in the fight against global warming and in its climate policies but also the growing tendency to embrace nationalist conspiracy theories.