Problems such as terrorism, economic imbalance and income distribution gap are the visible enemies of democracy, but there is another, at least as dangerous, hidden and insidious enemy: Memory loss.
Or memorylessness...
Even events that once caused the most severe social depressions lose their importance and excitement after a short time.
For example, like the Abdullah Öcalan incident...
The events that developed after Öcalan was brought to Türkiye, his trial and the death penalty contain striking theses and unforgettable documents about society.
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Journalist Arslan Tekin, who was present at all the hearings that followed Öcalan's trial in İmralı from beginning to end, brought together all these documents in his book titled 'The Guest in İmralı'.
In his book, which was published shortly after the conclusion of the trial but whose importance is still not understood, Arslan Tekin includes all the interrogations conducted by the Turkish authori Show More