Protesting to get their jobs back, Şahin and Dersulu released

"We want our jobs back; long live our Yüksel resistance"

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Having protested "to get their jobs back" in Yüksel Street in the capital city of Ankara and in Düzce and arrested on August 22, 2020 on the grounds that "they had continued protesting intensively despite previous judicial control measures", Alev Şahin and Mehmet Dersulu were released at their hearing on Friday (June 4). There have remained no arrested defendants.

In the trial heard by the Ankara 28th High Criminal Court, defendants Mehmet Dersulu, Armağan Özbaş, Acun Karadağ, Nazan Bozkurt, Mahmut Konuk and Alev Şahin, who had been protesting in Turkey's western province of Düzce, were arrested on August 20, 2020.

While Armağan Özbaş and Mahmut Konuk were released at their first hearing, teacher Acun Karadağ was released following her hearing on January 27 and Nazan Bozkurt was released on April 5, 2021.

Architect Alev Şahin was arrested in Kayseri and Mehmet Dersulu was arrested in Bolu before they were released on June 4.

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(AS/SD)