‘Tell those stories’: Kurds call for torture prison to be turned into place of healing

Fears Turkey's culture centre' plan for Diyarbakr military prison could whitewash history

Altan Tan was 24 when Diyarbakr's notorious Military Prison No 5 was built, just before Turkey's 1980 military coup. Not long after that, his father was thrown inside, never to emerge.

He was only there for a few weeks before he was tortured to death. I never had the chance to go inside and visit him," the Kurdish politician and writer said. There are no Kurds, no families who don't have memories associated with this building."