611 academics who haven’t signed the declaration titled “We will not be a party to this crime” signed by 1,128 academics have expressed support for the declaration.

The text signed by over 1,500 health workers has demanded academics voicing request for peace to remain untouched, peace in the country to be established, and life and keeping people alive to be made of top priority.

By violating academic freedom, and by intimidating, attacking and threatening academics at Turkish universities, the Turkish government is not only violating international law and its own constitution, but it is showing how weak it is.

One person killed, three others wounded in the explosion occurred in a schoolyard in Kilis.

137 student groups and student representations from various universities have said, “We are standing against massacre policies and threats, standing with our lecturers desiring peace”.

Three police killed, four others wounded by the bomb detonated planted in the road in Şırnak’s İdil district.

Okan University Presidency has expressed that opposing all sorts of terror acts and violence is a necessity for respect for human rights and that freedom of expression should be sensitively guarded.

Over 500 journalists including Can Dündar and Erdem Gül have supported the academics being targeted and prosecuted for releasing a declaration calling for peace and resume of negotiations.

HDP has supported the declaration of the Academics for Peace, noted that the practices against the academics were unlawful and stated that the suspensions and custodies should be put an end to.

Academics including lecturers dismissed from their positions at the university based upon the post-September 12 Coup Martial Law No. 1402, have launched a solidarity campaign with their colleagues.

Kocaeli University students have responded to threat letters left on the doors of the academics signing for peace declaration.

An overall up-to-date list of universities’ reactions against the academics and warrant issued for academics’ arrest following the declaration.

Theater Workers for Peace has said, “We include our voice with all our heart and conscience in peace call of academics for negotiation and peace”.

Film-Makers for Peace have declared that they stand with academics calling for peace and negotiations to resume and that they support their call.

İstanbul Chief Public Prosecution Office Bureau of Terror and Organized Crime has launched a prosecution against academics in İstanbul signing the petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

Two days after the explosion in Sultanahmet, people are there to commemorate those killed, the tourists we’ve talked with say the attacks aim for fear yet they will not allow it.

Over 200 journalists have declared that they stand with academics calling for peace and negotiations to resume by a statement and targeted by the President and Prime Minister for this.

26 intellectuals have informed themselves on to prosecution as to the investigation launched against Ayşe Çelik for her talk on TV program, and initiated a petition to turn this act into a mass campaign.

Academics for Peace have announced that they stand by the signees and their signatures on the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”. They have re-expressed their demands for peace and have announced that they would launch the judicial process against the defamations and the threats.

Prof. Dr. Şahika Yüksel, journalist-academic member Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Prof. Dr. Ayşe Erzan, Prof. Dr. Gençay Gürsoy, and journalist-academic member Füsun Özbilgen have commented on Erdoğan’s wording.