Mazlum Dogan
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Mazlum Do\u011fan was one of the founding members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and a member of its central committee. After finishing high school, he enrolled at Hacettepe University in Ankara in 1974. In 1976 he left the University and joined the Kurdish student movement, eventually transforming into the Kurdistan Workers' Party, otherwise known as the PKK. He has been the first chief editor of the parties' newspaper Serxwebûn. In 1979, he had planned to leave Turkey towards Syria, but was arrested over accusations of founding and leading a PKK. After serving time in the infamous Diyarbakir No. 5 prison, Mazlum Do\u011fan committed suicide on March 21, 1982, the day the Kurds celebrate Newroz by igniting bonfires. Mazlum Do\u011fan set his prison cell on fire and hanged himself in protest against the Turkish government and the relentless conditions inside Diyarbakir prison and other penitentiaries across Turkey. Prior to taking his life, he lit three matches, placing them on the table in his cell leaving the message, "Surrender is Betrayal, Resistance Brings Victory". Berxwedan Jîyane:With the inhumane conditions of the prison-torture system of Diyarbakir prison, where prisoners were subject to horrifying forms of abuse, such as, sexual violence, rape, psychological terror, beatings, electro-shocks, and being forced to eat dog excrement, the state tried to break all belief in the prisoners\u2019 ideals, dreams and utopias. His death sparked the Diyarbakir prison resistance movement. This triggered popular support and prompted the PKK\u2019s definite decision to take up guerrilla warfare against the state on August 15, 1984. Following Mazlum Do\u011fan\u2019s action, four inmates, Ferhat Kurtay, E\u015fref Any\u0131k, Necmi Onen and Mahmut Zengin lit themselves on fire in protest.
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