Forced Circumcision

To be circumcised or not to be circumcised is a human choice... More precisely, it is the choice of the family you are born into and the religious belief they adhere to. Today, many Christians are circumcised for hygienic reasons. But this medical operation can sometimes turn into a cruelty. It can be a tool of racist humiliation. For some reason, nationalist extremists or moderates are obsessed with circumcision... In Nazi-occupied Europe, the Gestapo and soldiers would check whether people were circumcised or not, to determine whether they were Jews... Who shot and killed the many Muslims in occupied Yugoslavia who could not express their problems... Izak Babel One of the most beautiful stories of 's is the narrative of a Circumcision Trial during the Soviet period: Circumcision was banned by the Soviet administration in Odessa as a reactionary custom. A poor Jewish family is tried for secretly circumcising their son...

As for me, when I was nine years old, I tried to escape from the arms of my kirve, who was holding me like a sacrificial sheep. The sight of the huge men trying to catch me was quite funny. No one had asked me if I wanted to be circumcised. When the children who escaped during the 1915 genocide were recaptured, they were first checked to see if they were circumcised. During the 1955 Istanbul pogrom, an Orthodox clergyman was forcibly circumcised. During the dirty war of the 1990s, it was publicly announced that guerrillas captured dead were uncircumcised. However, many poor mountain Kurdish villagers were not circumcised due to lack of money. Also, where will you find a circumciser on the mountain of Allah? Some of them were circumcised in the military with military ceremony, with alayu vala. There is also the disgrace of female circumcision, which we should not even delve into. Let's hear the circumcision story from Irfan Palali. Good reading.
-Ragip Zarakolu-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 132

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Document Publications

Number of Pages: 132

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish