Declaration with 105 Signatures for Release of 13 Arrested DİHA Reporters

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105 intellectuals, journalists, artists, academics and writers have signed a declaration calling for the release of 13 arrested Dicle News Agency (DİHA) reporters.

The declaration is also a petition collecting signatures on change.org. Names of the arrested reporters are as follows: Nedim Oruç, Nuri Akman, Nazım Daştan,Feyyaz İmrak, Mazlum Dolan, Ziya Ataman, Meltem Oktay, Muhammed Doğru, Bilal Güldem, Mehmet Hakkı Yılmaz, Abdulkadir Turay, Nedim Türfent, Şermin Soydan.

Following phrases have been used in the declaration stating the government points all dissident circles as a target:

“Not only Turkey but the whole world knows that anyone thinking or writing different than the government become a target for Erdoğan Regime. It is desired that shall our people be conditioned on the news which this regime delivers.

“Arrest of the 13 DİHA reporters has been added to that recently. The DİHA reporters working devotedly to reflect the hard truth lived in region unlike the pool media’s unqualified propaganda policy which is a subject of joke to everyone, have been arrested over ‘[illegal] organization propaganda’ before the eyes of the whole world.

“We the callers having the signatures below are demanding that the DİHA reporters trying to deliver the news of the dirty war conducted in the region to the people be released at once.

“Furthermore, we ask Turkey’s democratic public to show solidarity for DİHA as well which they showed for well-known journalists”.

Signatories:

Serdar Koçman, A.Hicri İzgören, Abud Can, Adil Okay, Adnan Genç,Ahmet Hulusi Kırım, Ahmet Kuzik, Akın Atauz, Akın Birdal, Ali Gökkaya, Altan Açıkdilli, Anjel Dikme, Atilla Dirim, Attila Tuygan, Ayşe Erzan, Ayşe Günaysu, Ayşe Öktem, Ayşegül Devecioğlu, Ayten Bakır, Aziz Tunç, Babür Pınar, Bager Oğuz Oktay, Baskın Oran, Bora Kılıç, Bozkurt Kemal Yücel,Bülent Tekin, Celal İnal, Celalettin Can, Çiçek Akbaba, Derya Yetişgen, Doğan Özgüden, Eflan Topaloğlu, Emre Kocaoğlu, Emre Uslu, Ercan İpekçi, Erdoğan Aydın, Ergun Kuzenk, Esra Çiftçi, Fatin Kanat, Ferhat Tunç, Fikret Başkaya, Fusun Erdoğan, Gençay Gürsoy, Gökhan Kaya, Gün Zileli, Güngör Şenkal, Haldun Açıksözlü, Halil Savda, Hanna Beth-Sawoce,Hasan Burgucuoğlu, Hasan Cemal, Hasan Kaya, Hasan Oğuz, Hasan Zeydan, Hüseyin Aykol, Hüseyin Habip Taşkın, İbrahim Seven, İnci Tuğsavul, İsmail Beşikçi, İsmail Cem Özkan, Kazım Genç, Kemal Akkurt, Kenan Yenice, Leyla Çelik, Mahmut Konuk, Mehmet Demirok, Mehmet Güler, Mehmet Özer, Metin Gülbay, Mihail Vasiliadis, Mukaddes Erdoğdu Çelik, Murad Ekmekçioğlu, Murad Mıhçı, Murad Utkucu, Mustafa Kemal Erdemol, Mustafa Yetişgen, Necmettin Salaz, Necmiye Alpay, Nesrin Nas,Nur Sürer, Nuray Çevirmen, Nurcan Baysal, Oktay Etiman, Pinar Ömeroğlu, Raffi Hermon Araks, Ragıp Zarakolu, Ramazan Gezgin, Recep Maraşlı, Sait Çetinoğlu, Salih Zeki Tombak, Semra Somersan, Sennur Baybuğa, Sibel Özbudun, Sinan Çiftyürek, Şaban İba, Şanar Yurdatapan, Tamer Çilingir, Tarık Ziya Ekinci, Temel Demirer, Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, Yasemin Çongar, Yasin Yetişgen, Zeynep Esmeray, Zeynep Tanbay, Zeynep Tozduman, Zeynep Yüncüler and Zübeyde Bilget. (HK/TK)

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