Mazlum Doğan

Who was Mazlum Doğan?

Mazlum Doğan was a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He was an Alevi Muslim.

After he had finished high school in Balıkesir in 1974 he enrolled at Hacettepe University in Ankara. In 1976 he joined the Kurdish student movement, which has been, in parts, the precursor of the PKK. He has been the first chief editor of the parties' newspaper Serxwebûn. In 1979 he was arrested after accusations of founding and leading a terrorist organisation, taking part at a liberation of a comrade from a state hospital in Diyarbakır and identity document forgery.