academics for peace

HDP Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ has attended the watch kept in front of the Bakırköy Prison where Esra Mungan is kept arrested and has left a letter for her.

Academic Meral Camcı subjected to custody order upon signing the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime” has been referred to the prosecution after giving testimony in the police department.

Academic Meral Camcı on whom custody order has been issued for signing the declaration titled “We will not be a party to this crime” has returned to Turkey. Camcı will go to police station with her attorneys tomorrow.

Baskın Oran has brought a defamation claim against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in amount of 3,110 Euro damages for defaming the academics with expressions such as “despicable”, “tyrant”, “dark as pitch”, “ignorant”, “disgusting”, “tainted souls”.

148 US-based academics have sent a solidarity letter to US State Department urging them to call on the Turkish government to put an end to the oppression and free the academics arrested.

Freedom Watch continuing in front of Bakırköy prison for the arrested academics is being held in front of Silivri prison today (March 25).

Can Dündar and Erdem Gül have visited the Justice Watch in front of Bakırköy Prison demanding freedom for the arrested academics. The Justice Watch will continue today and there will also be one tomorrow in Silivri.

Boğaziçi University students and academics of the Boğaziçi University and Academics for Peace Initiative are on watch in front of the prison where the three academics are arrested.

Boğaziçi University students and academics of the Boğaziçi University and Academics for Peace Initiative are on watch in front of the prison where the three academics are arrested.

Contracts of six academics signing declaration of Academics for Peace have been annulled in Nişantaşı University.

Support letter signed by as many as 500 academics from over 20 countries for Peace for Academics has been issued in The Times’ weekly supplement, the Times Higher Education.

Okan University Presidency has expressed that opposing all sorts of terror acts and violence is a necessity for respect for human rights and that freedom of expression should be sensitively guarded.

HDP has supported the declaration of the Academics for Peace, noted that the practices against the academics were unlawful and stated that the suspensions and custodies should be put an end to.

Academics for Peace have announced that they stand by the signees and their signatures on the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”. They have re-expressed their demands for peace and have announced that they would launch the judicial process against the defamations and the threats.

Prof. Dr. Şahika Yüksel, journalist-academic member Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Prof. Dr. Ayşe Erzan, Prof. Dr. Gençay Gürsoy, and journalist-academic member Füsun Özbilgen have commented on Erdoğan’s wording.

Association of Psychologists for Social Solidarity has said, “We declare that we oppose threats and oppressions, and support ‘peace and negotiation’ call by Academics for Peace Initiative”.

Presidency of Samsun 19 Mayıs University has initiated an investigation against six academics who signed the statement titled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

Minister of Justice Bozdağ has said, “They don’t have the eyes to see and lack the capability to comprehend” referring to academics who signed the statement titled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

1,128 academics from 89 universities in Turkey, and over 355 academics and researchers from abroad have signed a text calling on state of Turkey to end state violence and prepare negotiation conditions.