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Writer Miroğlu files complaint regarding death threat call
Miroğlu told Today’s Zaman that police department officials are confident they will find those responsible for the death threat and have been dealing with his complaint in a professional manner. He also said that he will be provided with protection.
The writer, whose new book “Ölümden Kalıma” (From Death to Survival) contains his letters from the notorious Diyarbakır Prison where he was incarcerated for several years, was on his way from the airport to Ankara’s city center by bus when he received the threatening call.
“We had almost arrived at the Ankara bus terminal. My phone rang. There was an unidentified number. I don’t like such numbers. I sometimes receive calls from such numbers if they are from abroad. I replied but nobody spoke. Instead I started to hear strange noises, like sounds coming from a person struggling for his or her life,” Miroğlu wrote in his column in the Taraf daily yesterday.
He then went on to explain that more strange sounds came from the other end of the line and a person told him, “Be careful!” Miroğlu said he asked the person who he or she was and heard screams and finally the same voice told him, “You can die at any time!”
Born in the town of Midyat in the southeastern province of Mardın, Miroğlu was arrested following the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup and was released from Diyarbakır Prison in 1988. He narrowly survived being shot by three bullets in 1992 in Diyarbakır, the same year in which the prominent Kurdish author and Miroğlu’s uncle, Musa Anter, was killed by an unknown assassin, allegedly connected to an illegal organization inside the gendarmerie known as JİTEM.
Asked about his guess in regards to the motivation of the person threatening him, Miroğlu said almost everybody working at Taraf has received such threats, but usually in the form of “hate mail.”
He also said the threat came on the day that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made his referendum campaign appearance in Diyarbakır, where he empathetically referred to the pains suffered by Miroğlu and his uncle, Anter. “There are people who live in darkness. They can’t see the changes occurring in Turkey. Those people might have perceived me as a ‘threat’,” he told Today’s Zaman. “But I am content. They don’t realize that they are threatening somebody who survived bullets 18 years ago,” he said, and added that there are now many more people who trust the thoughts and ideas voiced in his writings.
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