Necmettin Büyükkaya also known as Neco (1943–1984) was a prominent Kurdish activist and cadre of the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths in Turkey who was tortured to death in prison.
[1][2] Büyükkaya was born in 1943 in the village of Karahan (Dağbaşı) in the Siverek district of Şanlıurfa Province to Kurdish parents and went on to study at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law after graduating high school in Diyarbakır.
In 1972, he went to Qamishli in Syria, and then Czechoslovakia and Sweden before returning to Turkey in 1975 after general amnesty was declared the previous year.
In Turkey he continued his Kurdish activism until the 1980 coup d'état when he was jailed and tortured.
[1] Letters and other writings of Büyükkaya were collected and published in Sweden in 1992 as the book "Kalemimden Sayfalar".