The tri­bunal in Ankara has sen­tenced Nuriye Gül­men to 6 years and 3 months impris­on­ment. She is accused of belong­ing to the DHKP‑C, a left-wing group list­ed as “ter­ror­ist”, as are all true oppo­si­tion groups in Turkey. An appeal has been launched dur­ing which Nuriye will be free on probation.

Nuriye was released from Ankara hos­pi­tal where she was held in  inten­sive care since Sep­tem­ber, giv­en the con­di­tion she was in fol­low­ing her hunger strike. She was com­fort­ed by close ones and sup­port­ers, then by Semih and Esra Öza­kça who had pre­pared a recep­tion area for her.

The judg­ment drops the charges against Semih Öza­kça who was judged in the same con­text and who was tem­porar­i­ly lib­er­at­ed dur­ing the pre­vi­ous hear­ing in October.

The two teach­ers, arrest­ed in May, became fig­ure­heads for over 140.000 per­sons, teach­ers, mag­is­trates, lawyers and civ­il ser­vants, fired or sus­pend­ed in the purges launched by the Turk­ish state fol­low­ing the “blessed” putsch of July 15 2016.

Fol­low­ing their dis­missal by decree, Nuriye Gül­men and Semih Öza­kça had spearhed­ed dai­ly demon­stra­tions in down­town Ankara and had begun a hunger strike on March 9, refus­ing all nour­shis­ment oth­er than salty or sug­ared water, herbal teas, and vit­a­min B1.

Their rel­a­tives did not cease rais­ing alerts con­cern­ing their health. More than 50.000 peo­ple were also arrest­ed in the purges launched by the regime using the 2016 failed putsch as an alibi.

We will return to these lib­er­a­tions which con­sti­tute a “vic­to­ry” for sol­i­dar­i­ty but nonethe­less con­demn Nuriye, and beyond this, we will call for a renew­al of objec­tions against the deci­sions of the Turk­ish regime.

See the Spe­cial Dossier on Nuriye et Semih Nuriye et Semih


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