Eight human rights defenders, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director İdil Eser, and two international IT trainers, were detained by police on 5 July as they were participating in a workshop in Istanbul. They must be released immediately and unconditionally as they are prisoners of conscience.
Eight human rights defenders, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director İdil Eser, and two international IT trainers, were detained by police on 5 July as they were participating in a workshop in Istanbul. They must be released immediately and unconditionally as they are prisoners of conscience.
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Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:
- Urging the Minister of Justice to release human rights defenders Günal Kurşun, İdil Eser, İlknur Üstün, Nalan Erkem, Nejat Taştan, Özlem Dalkıran, Şeyhmuz Özbekli, Veli Acu and the two IT international trainers Ali Gharavi and Peter Steudtner immediately and unconditionally.
Contact these two officials by 18 August, 2017:
Minister of Justice Mr Bekir Bozdağ Ministry of Justice Adalet Bakanlığı 06659 Ankara, Turkey Fax: +90 312 419 33 70 Email: [email protected] Salutation: Dear Minister
Ambassador Serdar Kiliç, Embassy of the Republic of Turkey 2525 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20008 Phone: 1 202 612 6700 OR 202 612 6701 Fax: 1 202 612 6744 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @TurkishEmbassy Salutation: Dear Ambassador
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