From Barış İçin Akademisyenler / Academics for Peace
On September 25, 2020, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued arrest warrants against 82 members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the second biggest opposition party in Turkish Parliament, including 24 former Central Executive Committee members. They were taken into custody and were restricted from meeting their attorneys for 24 hours.
On October 1, 2020, the court ordered the pre-trial detention for seventeen of them, including the co-mayor of Kars, Ayhan Bilgen, the former MPs Ayla Akat Aka, Emine Ayna, Nazmi Gür, Professor Dr. Emine Beyza Üstün, HDP’s former Central Executive Board members and researchers Cihan Erdal and Can Memiş.
We demand that all who have been arrested in operations against HDP, including our peace signatory comrade, peace academic Prof. Dr. Emine Beyza Üstün, and our colleagues Cihan Erdal and Can Memiş be released immediately.
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