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Prof. Ayşe Gül Altınay signed a petition protesting Turkey's severe military belligerence against Kurds. President Erdogan called the document treasonous. Now the court has handed down its verdict: 25 months in prison. Altınay remains calm and unflinching.

Are we going to turn our pain into more violence, hate, pain and injustice, or into steps that multiply life, beauty, love, peace and justice?

In order to heal the traumas transmitted from one generation to the other, and to come out of the cycles of violence we have been suffering from, we need reparative justice more than ever.