[Reader-list] Ayse Nur Zarakoglu is dead, but Kafka lives (in Turkey)

[Patrice Riemens]

Re: my previous posting on this list about the Turkish publisher Nur Ayse 
Zarakoglu.

The death of (one of their many) scourge is apparently not enough for the 
Turkish authorities to quit & desist...

Two weeks after her death & burial (well reported in the media), the State
Security Court No 1 delivered summons ordering her to appear in person in
court on March 21, 11 am, on pains of arrestation. So her widower, Ragip,
her son (who was detained for a while because of the speech he had
delivered at his mother's burial), and many friends and press people
showed up, as well as lawyers and judges. The court was unimpressed by the
fact that the dock remained empty for a reasonable cause, and that Nur
Ayse Zarakoglu, being dead, could no longer publish under her name.
Sessions have now been postponed to June 4, so that the court can obtain
'satisfactory evidence' from the registrar of birth and death.

The fresh delicts for which Nur Ayse Zarakoglu is requested to raise from
her grave and answer for are a book by the exiled Kurdish advocate Huseyin
Turhali, "The Song of Freedom", and an antropological & historical study
by Omar Hasan, "The Culture of the Pontus" about the Greek Folk culture in
the Eastern Black Sea region (which was almost entirely wipped out as
consequence of the Greek-Turkish 'population exchange' - mutual ethnic
cleansing - of 1923).