Yektan Turkyilmaz Interview
The online journal “Inside Higher Ed” has published an interview with Yektan Turkyilmaz.
Some highlights:
The interrogators’ questioning in the initial few days of my arrest was entirely devoted to my research, my political views and connections with Turkish intelligence and state officials. The concept of “scholar” is meaningless to them. According to them, as the investigator put it, “all scholars are spies.” All my friends and contacts in Yerevan (most of whom have nothing to do with the books found in my suitcases) have not only been interrogated by the KGB but were also harassed and threatened. They were all told that I was a Turkish spy. My friends who were at the airport with me were threatened not to let anyone, especially my family, know about my arrest. (When my sister contacted them via phone they denied that they were with me at the airport! For that reason my family did not know about my situation for 15 hours.)
KGB officials’ mentality — a mixture of the Soviet way of thinking and nationalism with xenophobic overtones — played a crucial role in making the decision to detain me. Unfortunately, in today’s Armenia (like many other ex-Soviet republics), there isn’t adequate political control over KGB. I should also underline that there is an ongoing fight between pro-democracy advocates and pro-Russia Soviet-style rule. For me, it is relieving to know that I have received a good deal of support from the pro-democracy politicians and large segments of the Armenian society, which is very important.
Yektan Turkyilmaz Interview
Via Blogrel, Inside Higher Education has an interview with Yektan Turkyilmaz, the Turkish scholar of Kurdish descent who was arrested in June but released two months later.
Four months ago, Yektan Turkyilmaz was a doctoral student in cultural anthro…
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Comment by Katy — 10/1/2005 @ 12:37 pm
He’s a very astute student of Armenia - I am sure that’s precisely what the NSS folks thought about him.
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