Sırrı Süreyya Önder

When I first became acquainted with the name Sırrı Süreyya Önder in 2013, I valued his significant contributions to the Kurdish-Turkish peace process as a Kurdish politician. I traced his life, and my appreciation grew when I learned that he was Turkmen and almost the most noble Anatolian, as he embraced history and sought to […]

Sırrı Süreyya Önder‘s life did not have the heroic beginnings often woven into the biographies of public figures. There was no hint of an extraordinary destiny, nor any indication that a child from the depths of Anatolia would one day become a symbol of resisting authority. In fact, there was nothing remarkable about that beginning—just […]