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The campaign of "We are all Migrants - No to Racism" has launched an online petition in response to the recently escalating hatred and lynch attempts towards migrants in Turkey.
The petition has underlined that extreme right wing politics and authoritarianism have also led migrants to become targets across the world.
Hate speech spreads on social media
Around 190 people, including artists, politicians, lawyers and writers have supported the campaign so far. The petition has emphasized that hate speech towards the migrants has been spreading especially on social media and this hate speech, then, turns into physical assaults.
Referring to the incident that turned into a lynch attempt against the Syrians living in İkitelli, İstanbul, the petition has further highlighted, "As it is usually the case, racist hatred was again ignited with an allegation of harassment."
CLICK - 'There is no Harassment, But Racist Attack Against Syrians'
Campaign also defines racism
The petition has also offered its own definition of racism:
"Though the news igniting lynches usually prove to be wrong, attributing the action of a single individual to a whole group and holding all Syrians responsible for a crime allegedly committed by a single Syrian is racism."
Authorities called for duty
Emphasizing that the impunity in racist attacks encourages the assaulters to seek new targets, the petition has also raised concerns that migrants are held responsible for the death of Turkish soldiers in Syria, which has led to an increase in attacks against Syrian migrants in Turkey.
The petition ends with a call to the authorities to take the necessary precautions to ensure migrants' safety of life and to enact deterrent punishments of the ones who organize these attacks:
"The migrants who are employed under the worst conditions and struggling against poverty and racism are our brothers and sisters. Let us build solidarity and fraternity with them!"
Signatories
A. Haluk Tarhan
Abdullah Arzuman
Ahmet Kuzik
Ahmet Orhan
Ali Altıntaş
Ali Dede
Ali Gümüş
Ali Üstübeç
Ammar Kılıç
Arif Sever
Asena Altıntaş
Atilla Dirim
Ayşe Döne
Ayşe Özlem Ekşi
Ayşegül Devecioğlu
Bahan Gönce
Baran Arkaş
Barış Yılmaz
Bayram Ali Akyüz
Bekir Berat Özipek
Berrin Sönmez
Betül Aydın
Betsy Penso
Buğra Poyraz
Burak Demir
Can Irmak Özinanır
Canan Aydın
Canan Küçük
Canan Şahin
Cansu Altıntaş
Celal İnal
Cengiz Gülsen
Çağla Oflas
Cemil Özkan
Cemile Kocaman
Deniz Güngören
Dilek Yıldırım
Doğan Gülşen
Doğan Özkan
Ebubekir Ergün
Ebru Işıklı
Edip Yüksel
Efe Beşler
Egemen Güngör
Emrah Kırımsoy
Emre Berber
Erdal Doğan
Erdoğan Parlak
Eren Keskin
Ergün Küzenk
Esat Olgun Buharalıoğlu
Etem Yunus Akbayır
Evrim Hikmet Öğüt
Fahrettin Dağlı
Faruk Sevim
Fatin Kanat
Fatma Akdokur
Fatma Bostan Ünsal
Fatma Örgel
Fatmanur İldokuz
Ferda Keskin
Feride Abiç
Ferruh Topuz
Feyza Ayhan
Figen Dayıcık
Foti Benlisoy
Fulya Oral
Garo Kaprielyan
Gül Dönmez
Gülayşe Koçak
Güler Uyar
Gürhan Ertür
Hakan Ataman
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Halim Yılmaz
Harun Abuşoğlu
Harun Demir
Hasan Fehmi Özer
Hasan Kayım
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Hasan Uyar
Hasan Yıldız
Hasret Aktaş
Hasret Saygı
Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
İbrahim Pehlivan
İbrahim Sediyani
İrfan Kaygısız
İshak Bıdık
İshak Kocabıyık
İsmail Karaavcı
İzzet Saldamlı
Jale Görgün Mıldanoğlu
Kadir Çiçek
Kemal Başak
Kerim Kılıç
Kıvanç Eliaçık
Kuban Kural
Ludmilla Büyüm
Mahmut Belitürk
Mehmet Akif Kanar
Mehmet Ali Devecioğlu
Mehmet Ali Ekşi
Mehmet Arif Koçer
Mehmet Can Çağlayan
Mehmet Doğan
Mehmet Efe
Mehmet Harputluoğlu
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Melek Ulagay Taylan
Melike Karaosmanoğlu
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Meltem Oral
Merve Ay
Meryem Akdokur
Meryem Büşra Berber
Meryem Koray
Mualla Kavuncu
Muammer Yüce
Mukaddes Akdeniz
Murat Çağlar Kavaklı
Murat Erkman
Murat Güner
Mustafa Arslantunalı
Mustafa Kaya
Müyesser Yağız
Neşat Senem
Nuran Yüce
Nurcan Aktay
Nurcan Baysal
Nurcan Gündoğan
Nurten Ertuğrul
Oktay Tatlıcıoğlu
Osman Tüzer
Ozan Ekin Gökşin
Ozan Tekin
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu
Ömer Faruk Topçu
Özcan Alkan
Özdeş Özbay
Pınar Üzeltüzenci
Roni Margulies
Sabahattin Akar
Sacide Uras
Salih Çetin
Seda Gönül
Sedat Sümbül
Selma Değirmenci
Serkan Altıntop
Sevinç Doğan
Sıdıka Çetin
Sibel Erduman
Sinan Adsaz
Sinan Kurban
Sinan Laçiner
Suat Turan
Süleyman Çalışkan
Süleyman Hilmi Bayraktaroğlu
Şafak Ayhan
Şebnem Aktolga
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Şenol Karakaş
Şevki Evrendilek
Tarkan Tek
Tekin Bay
Turhan Duğan
Tülay Durmuş
Tülay Yıldırım Ede
Umut Ezgi Bozdağ
Ufuk Uras
Umut Karahan
Ümit Aktaş
Ümit Kaya
Vartan Estukyan
Vedat Kahyalar
Volkan Akyıldırım
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Yervant Şalvarcıoğlu
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Ziya Dinçsoy
Ziya Taner Koçak
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