30 prominent figures from Germany express support for ‘101 Grey-Haired Elders’

* From left to right: Regula Venske, Banu Güven, Günter Wallraff, Cem Özdemir

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PEN Germany Center, German Journalists Union, German Journalists Association, German Book Publishers Association and Culture Forum Germany-Turkey have released a joint declaration, calling for "peace in the Eastern Mediterranean" and expressing support for "101 Grey-Haired Elders" in their call for "a democracy alliance of all opposition forces in Turkey."

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Among 30 signatories of the joint declaration are journalist Günter Wallraff, former Co-Chair of Germany's Greens Party Cem Özdemir, politician Lale Akgün, director Fatih Akın, writer Aslı Erdoğan, journalists Banu Güven, Ahmet İnsel, Can Dündar, Celal Başlangıç, Doğan Özgüden, İnci Özgüden Tuğsavul, PEN Germany Center Chair and writer Regula Venske.

The declaration has reiterated the 101 Grey-Haired Elders' joint call for a democratic opposition for human rights, peace and democracy.

The first signatories of the declaration are as follows:

Taner Akçam, Lale Akgün, Doğan Akhanlı, Fatih Akın, Süleyman Ateş, Mustafa Ayrancı, Celal Başlangıç, Kemal Bozay, Anke Brunn, Angelika Claussen, Hıdır Çelik, Safter Çınar, Burak Çopur, Molla Demirel, Süleyman Demirtaş, Amke Dittert, Can Dündar, Kenan Engin, Hüseyin Erdem, Aslı Erdoğan, Çiler Fırtına, Ahmet Kerim Gültekin, Kazım Gündoǧan, Nezahat Gündoǧan, Ülkü Gürkan-Schneider, Banu Güven, Ahmet İnsel, Atilla Keskin, Kader Konuk, Klaus Kost, Dilek Mayatürk-Yücel, Ralf Nestmeyer, Osman Okkan, Mehmet Oturan, Alper Öktem, Nafiz Özbek, Cem Özdemir, Doğan Özgüden, İnci Özgüden-Tuğsavul, Toni Rütten, Alexander Skipis, John Steinmark, Nilüfer Tarıkahya, Kamil Taylan, İlias Uyar, Regula Venske, Felix von Grünberg, Günter Wallraff, Kemal Yalçın. (RT/SD)