Call from Litterateurs for Gülmen, Özakça on Hunger Strike: Their Demands must be Met

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The litterateurs have issued an urgent call for academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, who are on the 65th day of the hunger strike they went on demanding that they be reinstated to their job.

In the call, authorities were urged to meet their demands:

“Academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, who were fired through the statutory decree, are on the 65th day of their hunger strike. Their conditions worsen with each passing day.

“We call for the authorities to immediately step in to meet the demands of Gülmen and Özakça, who protest the unjust discharge and demand that they be reinstated to their jobs”.

The litterateurs who issued the calls are:

Ece Temelkuran, Burhan Sönmez, Yavuz Ekinci, Ahmet Gece, Aslı Tohumcu, Asuman Susam, Nil Sakman, Anıl Mert Özsoy, Emek Erez, Melike İnci, Birgül Oğuz, Karin Karakaşlı, Kerem Görkem, Ahmet Ergenç, Belma Fırat, Yavuz Akengin, Melike Koçak, Mustafa Orman, Mehmet Said Aydın, Nursem Banu Özyürek, Emrah Polat, Sibel Oral, Bade Osma Erbayav, Mahmut Temizyürek, Bilal Kayabey, Gönül Kıvılcım, Ayça Güçlüten, Altay Öktem, C. Hakkı Zariç, Nazlı Karabıyıkoğlu, Menekşe Toprak, Alper Beşe, Hasan Ali Toptaş, Murat Uyurkulak, İlhan Durusel, Esra Yalazan, Onur Akyıl, Sibel Türker, Adnan Binyazar, Mehmet Oktay Onbaşı, Akın Sevinç, Miyase Sertbarut, Haydar Ergülen, Berna Durmaz, Reyhan Yıldız, Nermin Yıldırım, Ahmet Tulgar, Veysel Oğulcan Tünay, Hikmet Altınkaynak, Meltem Gürle, Orhan Çetinbilek, Pelin Buzluk, Semih Gümüş, Koray Sarıdoğan, Yasemin Yazıcı, Mine Soysal, Hüseyin Kıran, Halil Türkden, Asuman Bayrak, Ayşegül Tözeren, Sema Kaygusuz, Birhan Keskin, Tekgül Arı, İsahag Uygar Eskiciyan, Nuray Tekin, Gülden Erbayri, Cihan Ülsen, Emel Kurma, Merve Yakut, Deniz Durukan, Figen Şakacı, Ayşe Sarısayın, Emre Şahinler, Bora Abdo, Ercan Y Yılmaz, Gamze Arslan, Barış Yıldırım, Behçet Çelik, Deniz Lodos, Semih Öztürk, Fahri Eperen, Ayşe B. Kaban, Reyhan Yıldırım, Murat Meriç, Mesut Varlık, Aslı Uluşahin, Ümit Aykut Aktaş, Melek Ulagay Taylan, Hikmet Hükümenoğlu, Suat Çelebi, Kerem Eksen, Necla Emekçi, Gül Ersoy, Büşra Ersanlı, Şebnem İşigüzel, Neslihan Cangöz, Hülya Deniz Ünal, Burak Abatay, Kerem Işık, Ata Egemen Çakıl, Fehmi Salık, Aslı Perker, Simla Sunay, Sine Ergün, Doğu Yücel, Mehmet Erte. (AS/TK)