Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
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.
As a richly articulated living history, Sur shattered the stereotype of the Middle East as intellectually backwards...