Penalisation of Kurdish children under the Turkish Anti-Terror Law: Abandonment, sovereignty and lawfare

This article explores how the disproportionate penalisation of Kurdish minors under the Turkish Anti-Terror Law informs their political imagination and experiences of the Turkish state. By depriving Kurdish children of the rights to which they are otherwise entitled as minor citizens of Turkey, the Anti-Terror Law takes the form of a vertical relation of abandonment that excludes children from the law’s protection. Drawing on ethnographic research I conducted in a south-eastern town of Turkey bordering Syria, I contextualise the abandonment of Kurdish children within Turkey’s growing lawfare, whereby the Turkish state resorts to criminal prosecutions and mass incarceration as means to discipline the populace. Kurdish children’s abandonment in the midst of lawfare encourages a wide range of social groups to exert control and harm on them with impunity behind and beyond bars. The resultant web of constant punishment and surveillance reinforces the image of the lawmaker as an omnipotent entity that, children come to believe, haunts them on a daily basis. Abstract in Kurmanji Cezakirina zaroken kurd di bin hiquqa dij-terori ya tirk de: Terkandin, serweri u nelihevkirina demdirej Ev gotar dixwaze lebikole ka cawa cezakirina benisbet a zaroken kurd a bi reya Hiquqa Dij-Terori ya Tirk tesewir u tecrubeya wan a dewleta tirk bercav dike. Bi mehrumkirina zaroken kurd ji mafen wan, en ku di rewsa asayi de weke hemwelatiyen picuk en Tirkiyeye ten qebulkirin, Hiquqa Dij-Terori formeke tekiliya tikane a terkandine digre ku zarokan derveyi parastina hiquqe dihele. Li gor lekolina etnografik a min li navceyeke basur-rojhilate Tirkiyeye ye neziki sinore Suriyeye kiri, ez terkandina zaroken kurd di nav nelihevkirina demdirej ya Tirkiyeye de bicih dikim, bi reya ku dewleta tirk seri li darizandinen tawanbar u zindankirinen gisti dide weke amuren disiplinkirina gel. Terkandina zaroken kurd di nav nelihevkirina demdirej de gruben civaki yen cur bi cur teswiq dike ku kontrol u zirara xwe bigihinin wan bi reya becezakirina li u pist zindane. Di encama tora ceza u kontrolen daimi de weneye qanundaneran weke hebuneke qadir, zarok wisa bawer dikin, bi rojane muselete wan dibe. Abstract in Sorani Szadani mindallani kurd le sayey yasay dje-tirori turki: Desberdarbun, serweri u yasayi Em wtare lewe dekolletewe ke con szadani nahawsenganey mermindallani kurdi le sayey yasay djetirori turkda xeyall u ezmuni ewan beramber dewlleti turk arayisdedat. Be bebeskirdni mindallani kurd lew mafaney ke debwaye wek hawullatiyeki mermindalli turkya ley behremend bin, yasay dje tiror sewey peywendyeki stuni desberdarbun werdegret ke mindall dexate derewey parastini yasayi . Hellencan leser bnemay twejineweyeki itnografi ke min le sarockeyeki basuri rojhellati turkyay hawsinuri surya encamim dawe, min destberdarkirdni mindallani kurd le naw yasay gesesenduy turkya dexeme syaqi ewey dewlleti turk wek dispilini cemaweri pena bo dadgay tawan u szadani cemawer debat. Wedernani mindallani kurd le naw berrey yasa da, hani grupgeli frawani komellayeti dedat ta be parezbendiyewe le pist diwari bendixane u ledereweyda kontrolyan bken u zyanyan pe bgeyenin. Torri encamgiri ew sza u cawderiye berdewame ew wenaye behez dekat ke yasadaner desellatdareki rehaye, mindallanis degene ew bawerrey ke rojane twanay rawkirdni ewani heye. Abstract in Zazaki Cezakerdise domanane kurdan bine qanune verba terori ye Tirkiya: teriknayis, serdesti u qanuntaciziye Na meqale cigerayis kena ke nereside kurdan seni bi hewayeko benisbet bine qanune verba terori ye Tirkiya de ceza bene u no cezakerdis seni xeyal u tecrubeyane inan e siyasiyan bi dewleta Tirkiya ser o tesir keno. Heqe ke normal de hemwelatiye Tirkiya ye neresidi wayire inan e, domane kurdan ci ra bepar yene verdayene. Wina qanune verba terori keweno sekile tekiliya teriknayisi ya tikaniye ke bi no hewa domanan sitara qanuni ra teber keno. Bi bingeye cigerayise etnografiki ke mi sinore Suriye saristaneke basure rojhelate Tirkiya de kerd, ez teriknayise domanane kurdan carceweya binpaykerdise qanuni ke Tirkiya de her aver sono, tede qayite ci kena. Ne binpaykerdise qanuni de dewleta Tirkiya xo sanena taqibate cezayi u komhepiskerdisi ke wina sari disiple bikero. Domane kurdan ke miyane prosesane qanuni de terikniyene, no teriknayis cesaret dano tewir-tewir grubane komelkiyan ke bandura xo domanan ser o rone yan zi inan re zerar bide, be ke ne grubi zere yan zi teber ra ceza bibe. Neticeye na torra ceza u nezareti ya timine de, cime domanan de qanunvirastoxi bene ciyo ke her ci eskeno bikero u her roje beno musalate inan.