"On June 3, 1994, Savas Buldan was abducted by men who introduced themselves as police. Pervin, eight months pregnant, went into early labor with the impact of the news. While she gave birth to her daughter Zelal, Savas was found dead in Bolu, not far from Istanbul. His body bore traces of torture, with a single bullet in the neck. Relatives withheld the news from Pervin for the three days she stayed in hospital, saying Savas would soon visit her, while in the meantime laying him to rest.
More extrajudicial killings followed, all bearing the marks of the "deep state.".........................................................
The Kurdish conflict had altered the lives of thousands of Kurdish women — some saw their villages burned down, others lost sons and husbands in extrajudicial killings or saw them off to prison. To help those women, Buldan founded an association supporting families who had lost loved ones. Finally, she decided to go into politics to raise a louder voice. Her bids for a parliamentary seat failed in 1999 and 2002 as her party could not pass the national electoral threshold. In 2005, she was among 1,000 women nominated collectively for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of an international initiative. In 2007, she ran again in the elections, this time as an independent, becoming the first woman to be elected to parliament from the eastern province of Igdir.
Throughout those years, Buldan pursued the murder of her husband, filing countless petitions, but the case did not move an inch. She was beginning to lose hope when a former member of the police special forces, Ayhan Carkin, dropped a bombshell in a 2008 TV interview, claiming he might have killed up to 1,000 people on behalf of the “deep state.” Later, he would confess to 19 specific unresolved murders, including that of Savas Buldan, saying he acted jointly with JITEM in extrajudicial killings both in the southeast and Istanbul."
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