Mazlum Doğan
Mazlum Doğan | |
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| Born | 1955 Karakoçan, Turkey |
| Died | 21 March 1982 (aged 26–27) Diyarbakır Prison, Turkey |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Nationality | Kurdish |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Organization(s) | Dev-Genç, Kurdistan Workers’ Party |
| Known for | Founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, first editor of Serxwebûn |
| Notable work | Serxwebûn |
| Political party | Kurdistan Workers’ Party |
| Movement | Kurdish political movement |
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Mazlum Doğan (1955 – 21 March 1982) was a journalist and a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He was a Kurdish Alevi which was often told to attract new recruits to PKK. He was the first editor-in-chief of the PKK's propaganda newspaper Serxwebûn. In 1979, he had planned to leave Turkey towards Syria but was arrested and served time in the infamous Diyarbakir No. 5 prison. Mazlum Doğan committed suicide in protest of the Turkish coup d'état and the inhumane conditions he and other prisoners were facing inside of the penitentiary. Today he is presented as a hero and a martyr by the PKK and related organisations.