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Ismail Besikci
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"I've been in prison 17 years since 1971.... My life is normal enough. Turkey is stuck. It can't give up on Europe, but it can't give up off these thought crimes either. What happens? It leaves everything hanging. [laughs] No solution, always the same problem."..Ismail Besikci is Turkey's best know dissident, often imprisoned for writing about Turkey's Kurds. He lives in Ankara.