Abdullah Demirbas

Abdullah Demirbas was born in the city of Diyarbakir (or Amed), Kurdistan. From 2004 until 2012, he served as mayor of Diyarbakir central's Sur District. In 2012, he was forcibly removed from office, and now teaches philosophy and politics in a school in Istanbul.

Sur: against state violence in Turkey - an interview with former mayor Abdullah Demirbas

As a richly articulated living history, Sur shattered the stereotype of the Middle East as intellectually backwards and culturally empty. A call for international support.

By Eleanor Finley and Abdullah Demirbas

/ 18 Jul 2016