Turkey, the Kurds, and Human Rights

Men with video cameras were waiting at the entrance to Cizre, a rundown city in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast. The cameras rolled when police pulled me out of the car and checked my bags, my body, and my press card. Behind me was a mile-long line of cars waiting to go through the same process. “We find that videotaping people is useful,” said the genial policeman assigned to check my moves. “We started at soccer games and now we want to do it all the time. This way if som...