quoted by "torture" victim.
"I died twice," says Abdulkadir Aydin of the time he was tortured.
"I was hung with my hands behind my back and then electrocuted. I could smell that my body was burning.
"For seven or eight days I was tortured non-stop, passing out in-between sessions. They'd throw water on me to wake me up, or kick me."
"They said: 'You'll leave Marxism behind, you'll leave you Kurdish identity, you'll be Turkish soldiers'."
Abdulkadir Aydin was arrested in 1980 in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey.
He was rounded up after an army officer was killed during Nevroz, a Kurdish spring festival that was at the time banned in Turkey.
He sits in the offices of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association and remembers detail after detail of his time in prison.