ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program would like to thank the many individuals in Turkey who at great personal risk remain committed to the improvement of human rights in their country. We would particularly like to thank the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey for its support of our work and its generous hospitality during our missions. We also thank numerous individuals with whom we met, but whom we cannot identify due to safety concerns. We would like to thank Professor Richard Claude, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, and Mike Amitay, Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute, for their thoughtful comments to early drafts of this report.

We also would like to thank the Ford Foundation for its generous contribution to the Program's human rights documentation work that made these missions possible.

The author of this report is a Program Associate with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program. All photographs contained in the report were taken by the author unless othewise indicated.

The findings and conclusions of this report are those of the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Board or the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.