He is a communist, a traitor. Turkey jails blind activist. If only we could be sincere about Yasar Kemal. We see everyone in Turkey are united in praising the author even tough we are sorry to say quite a few of the people doing this are insincere and are trying exploit Kemal's success simply to hide the awful state of human rights and freedoms in Turkey. Germany condemns arrest of Turkish activist.
Turkey is a society that have never known democracy.
Esber Yagmurdereli, Lawyer. Blind since he was 10 years old. He served fourteen and a half years in prison, half of them in solitary confinement, and many of them in a variety of prisons, wherever the authorities thought appropriate. It was decided that he would serve 36 years. And his stubbornness in not giving way and continuing in his path earned him the attention and reaction of many another country.