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Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn, who are in Turkey to attend the Political Dialogue Meeting, have stated that Demirtaş should be released by referring to the ruling of the ECtHR and added that they want Turkey to be a democratic country.

Çiğdem Mater, Ayşegül Güzel and Yusuf Cıvır, who were detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights defenders on November 16, have been released. Civil society expert Yiğit Aksakoğlu has been arrested.

Prof. Dr. Betül Tanbay, who was previously detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights advocates, has been released after giving her deposition. Seven people have still been in custody.

Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı, Asena Günal and Bora Sarı, who were among the 13 academics and rights advocates taken into custody earlier today, have been released after their depositions. Meltem Aslan has also been released afterwards.

“Taking away academics and intellectuals, who have not even had a slightest engagement with violence and crime throughout their lives, intervening in the course of their lives, can by no means be normalized nor accepted.”