Deniz Zarakolu
Deniz Zarakolu is the son of Turkish publishers and human-rights advocates Ayşe Nur Zarakolu and Ragıp Zarakolu. Shortly after his mother's funeral in 2002, Zarakolu was arrested for a speech he gave at the funeral. The charge, "inciting revenge or hatred, which could cause people to become dangerous for each other" was later dropped. In October 2011, Karakolu was arrested while a PhD student at Bilgi University in Istanbul. The official charge was "leadership of an armed organisation" and was in conjunction with a series of arrests of pro-Kurdistan intellectuals in Istanbul.
