Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected
co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state
arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not
unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and
collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs,
co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection
of prison writings from more than 20 Kurdish women politicians.
Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles
against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the
radical feminist principles and practices through which they
transformed the political structures and state offices in which
they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the
ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist and socialist movements
closely informed their political stances and practices.
Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and
refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book
ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust
conditions to engage in collective resistance.
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