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Diyarbakır Prison Neoliberalization has made its way into the government Turkey has been though significant changes. One of these changes can be seen in the system of crime and punishment. On 12 September the army has made a take over and in relying to the laws they had an excuse for using hard force and pressure. The first example of this is the take over on 12 September and the justifications which resulted out of it. The justifications results which lead to in corseration and execution penalties, show that the given penalties are exaggurated considering the guilt. Diyarbakır Prison with its systematical and heavy tortures is a living example of this timeline. The physical and psychological tortures which have been practiced on the convicts affected their ongoing lives. At the same time, these psychological tortures made the convict thing he was guilty whether he was guilty or not. And because of this convicts who got out of prison have become potential deliquents. Due to the fact that the tortures which occured in prison, the connection between state and society started to vanish and created a society which considered the state as their enemy. The most of convicts in prison are Kurdish people. The difference between Diyarbakır prison and other prisons is the Diyarbakır convicts are primarily of Kurdish origin and the prison administration and torture types also differ in comparison with other prisons. To give an example, convicts of Diyarbakır prison were forced to speak Turkish although they were Kurdish. And the once who were not be able to speak have been taught Turkish by getting beaten up and tortured. And to exaggrate this, Turkish had also to be spoken during visits. Policies of state for Kurdish deviants in Diyarbakır Prison seem assimilation of them using violence. But, the effects of this process are negative and cause conflict. So, the number of Kurdish people joining PKK increased and obedience of Kurdish people to state decreased. Consequently, prisons which are symbols of modern control system in Neoliberalism, used to assimilate and show the power of state in Diyarbakır Prison. Hence, some Kurdish people started to see state as if an enemy and they become potential guilties in society. It is a homework writing from my optional Sociology course.

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Hi Yavuz, I have a few suggestions for your topic. I think you should mention that the September 12 coup occurred in 1980, otherwise it reads like it happened last year. Persecution and jailing of Kurds began long before the coup. At the time of the coup, Turkey had a relatively closed economy based on import substitution, and can't be described as neoliberal. The neoliberal era really began in 2002, when Kemal Derviş implemented a plan of IMF reforms. Also, every government uses prisons to consolidate and show the power of the state. Neoliberal governments are not unique in this respect. You are correct that the use of violence against the Kurds produces alienation rather than assimilation, but trying to connect this to neoliberalism is an exercise in ideology.

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