When Existence Becomes a Crime
From Torture and Prison to Execution Within the Family Author: Gouya Roshan (Guya Aydın ) I do not write these words based on hearsay; I write from a place where body and memory have become one, and memory itself turns into a wound. This is the policy of a regime, a policy that defines the opponent, restricts them, breaks them, and removes them. History knows this violence; the world does too. It is bitter and criminal, yet within the logic of power it is recognizable: violence as a tool of control. But what is happening today is not of that kind. The killing of people during a march is no longer the suppression of opposition. It is the crossing of a boundary that, once governments pass it, permanently alters their relationship with society. Here, the issue is no longer the “position of the opposition”; the very presence of the people becomes the problem. Nameless bodies, flagless voices, the mere existence of people is interpreted as an existential threat. And this interpretatio...