Kemal Pir

Kemal Pir (1952 in Güzeloluk, Gümüşhane Province – 7 September 1982 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) was a Turkish marxist-leninist revolutionary and one of the ethnically Turkish founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.^[1]

While on hunger strike in the Diyarbakır prison, he was asked by the head of prison "Don't you love life, Kemal?" and famously answered: "We love life so much we are prepared to die for it."^[2]

References

↑ Eray Çaylı (2015). "Diyarbakır's "witness sites" and discourses". In Zeynep Gambetti; Joost Jongerden. The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-138-82415-7.
↑ Ali Kemal Özcan (2006). Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-36687-9.

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[1] Eray Çaylı (2015). "Diyarbakır's "witness sites" and discourses". In Zeynep Gambetti; Joost Jongerden. The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-138-82415-7.

[2] Ali Kemal Özcan (2006). Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-36687-9.