Diyarbakır Military Prison, also known as Diyarbakır No. 5 Prison, occupies a central place in Turkey’s collective memory of the armed conflict. The prison was built just before the military coup on 12 September 1980. Politically organized and mobilized Kurds, including politicians, unionists, leftists, and activists, were imprisoned in large numbers after the coup. The torture and the level of human violations were extreme and brutal, particularly between 1980 and 1984. Time magazine listed the DMP among the worst prisons around the world in 2008, where horrific torture methods were used on inmates (Diyarbakır Prison/Diyarbakır Cezaevi/Girtîgeha Amedê, n.d.). Alongside the common methods of torture and ill treatment which political prisoners have faced in different junta regimes, jailed Kurds were exposed to the Turkification torture practices, including physical and psychological humiliation. The DMP became a resistance site for their Kurdish identity, with many prisoners later joining the PKK and becoming involved in the Kurdish nationalist struggle.