In a press briefing the spokespersons Tayfun Mater, Gencay Gürsoy Şahika Yüksel and Fadime Gok declared their demands and responded the questions from press.
Recalling that the recent deaths in the armed conflict in southeast Turkey have already totaled 50 "let our people not die any more; let us enjoy peace and justice" the intellectuals say.
Having caused the lives of total 30 thousand Kurdish guerrillas, security forces and civilians the armed uprising in Turkey's southeast aiming Kurdish self-determination had practically ended after the insurgent leader Abdullah Ocalan's arrest in 1999.
However the clashes flared recently after the PKK's declaration of ending the unilateral truce in July 2004.
150 signatories including Turkey's renown novelists Orhan Pamuk and Adalet Ağaoğlu, businessmen Osman Kavala and Can Paker, human rights activists Şanar Yurdatapan, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Akın Birdal, Yusuf Alataş scientists Ayşe Erzan, Ayşe Gül Altınay, former ministers Fikri Sağlar and Ercan Karakaş, journalists Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Nadire Mater Ragip Duran, Rüstem Batum and Hrant Dink, jurists Yücel Sayman and Ergin Cinmen called the PKK "cease all armed activity immediately and without preconditions" and the government "make the necessary legal arrangements in order that a lasting peace may be established and everyone may participate in democratic social life." (EK/YE)
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The full list of the signatories
Abdullah Aysu, Adalet Agaoglu, Ahmet Hakan Coskun, Akın Birdal, Alaaddin Dincer, Ali Bayramoglu, Ali Nesin, Ata Soyer, Ayla Gursoy, Aydın Cingi, Aydın Engin, Ayhan Bilgen, Ayse Cavdar, Ayse Erzan, Ayse Gul Altinay, Baskin Oran, Behic Ak, Bulent Aydin, Büşra Ersanlı, Can Paker, Celal Korkut Yildirim, Çagatay Anadol, Deniz Kavukcuoglu, Dincer Sezgin, Dogan Tasdelen, Ece Temelkuran, Elif Safak, Emin Koramaz, Erol Katircioglu, Ertugrul Kurkcu, Ercan Karakas, Ergin Cinmen, Ersin Salman, Erol Kizilelma, Esin Yelekci, Fadime Gok, Faruk Suyun, Fehmi Kutan, Ferda Keskin, Ferhat Kentel, Ferhunde Ozbay, Fethiye Cetin, Fikri Saglar, Fuat Keyman, Fusun Ustel, Gencay Gursoy, Gunduz Vassaf, Gurol Irzik, Hacer Ansal, Hakan Tahmaz, Halil Berktay, Halil Ergun, Hayri Kozanoglu, Hrant Dink, Huri Ozdogan, Huseyin Bekiroglu, Huseyin Eroglu, Hüseyin Firat, Huseyin Yesil, Husnu Ondul, İbrahim Kaboglu, Idel Rosenthal, Ipek Calislar, Ismail Hakki Tombul, Jaklin Celik, Jale Parla, Kazim Genc, Kemal Bulut, Kemal S.Sunar, Kemal Ulusaler, Kenan Camurcu, Koksal Aydin, L.Dogan Tilic, Mahir Gunsiray, Mehmet Bekaroglu, Mehmet Gumus, Metin Bakalci, Mevlut Ulgen, Murat Celikkan, Mebuse Tekay, Mehmet Guleryuz, Mehmet Ali Alabora, Mehmet Soganci, Melek Goregenli, Melek Taylan, Melih Asik, Mete Tuncay, Muammer Keskin, Muhittin Unal, Murat Belge, Murtaza Demir, Mujde Ar, Muslim Akalin, Nadire Mater, Necmiye Alpay, Nevzat Celik, Noyan Ozkan, Nihal Bengisu, Nuray Mert, Nuri Odemis, Nesrin Sungur, Oguz Ozerdem, Oral Calislar, Orhan Alkaya, Orhan Pamuk, Osman Kavala, Oya Baydar, Ozlem Dalkiran, Peral Bayaz, Pinar Kur, Ragip Duran, Rauf Kosemen, Refik Durbas, Resit Canbeyli, Rustem Batum, Sadun Aren, Sami Evren, Selcuk Uluata, Sevgi Goyce, Sevgi Uçan, Sezai Kaya, Sezai Temelli, Sibel Irzik, Sahika Yuksel, Sahin Alpay, Sanar Yurdatapan, Sebnem Korur Fincanci, Semsa Ozar, Semsettin Polat, Seyda Ozil, Sukru Boyraz, Tahsin Yesildere, Taner Akcam, Taner Yuzgec, Tayfun Mater, Toktamiş Ates, Ufuk Uras, Vecdi Sayar, Veysi Sarısozen, Vicdan Baykara, Yahya Arikan, Yildiz Ramazanoglu, Yılmaz Ensaroglu, Yigit Ekmekci, Yusuf Alatas, Yucel Akdemir, Yucel Sayman, Zafer Uskul, Zeynep Oral, Zeynep Tanbay.
