{"id":243073,"date":"2021-07-18T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/tell-those-stories-kurds-call-for-torture-prison-to-be-turned-into-place-of-healing"},"modified":"2021-07-18T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T04:00:19","slug":"tell-those-stories-kurds-call-for-torture-prison-to-be-turned-into-place-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/18\/tell-those-stories-kurds-call-for-torture-prison-to-be-turned-into-place-of-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tell those stories\u2019: Kurds call for torture prison to be turned into place of healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears Turkey\u2019s \u2018culture centre\u2019 plan for Diyarbak\u0131r military prison could whitewash history  <\/p><p>Altan Tan was 24 when Diyarbak\u0131r\u2019s notorious Military Prison No 5 was built, just before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/turkey\">Turkey\u2019s<\/a> 1980 military coup. Not long after that, his father was thrown inside, never to emerge.<\/p><p>\u201cHe was only there for a few weeks before he was tortured to death. I never had the chance to go inside and visit him,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kurds\">Kurdish<\/a> politician and writer said. \u201cThere are no Kurds, no families who don\u2019t have memories associated with this building.\u201d<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/16\/erdogan-vows-to-expand-fight-against-pkk-after-deaths-of-13-hostages\">Erdo\u011fan vows to expand fight against PKK after deaths of 13 hostages<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/27\/as-erdogan-tightens-grip-on-power-last-opposition-politicians-resist-brutal-purge\">Turkey: the rise and fall of the Kurdish party that threatened Erdo\u011fan<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/tell-those-stories-kurds-call-for-torture-prison-to-be-turned-into-place-of-healing\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/tell-those-stories-kurds-call-for-torture-prison-to-be-turned-into-place-of-healing\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears Turkey\u2019s \u2018culture centre\u2019 plan for Diyarbak\u0131r military prison could whitewash history  Altan Tan was 24 when Diyarbak\u0131r\u2019s notorious Military Prison No 5 was built, just before Turkey\u2019s 1980 military coup. Not long after that, his father was throw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17970,1321,1320,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243074,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243073\/revisions\/243074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}