Freedom for the Istanbul10
On 5 July 2017 the Turkish human rights defenders Günal Kurşun and Veli Acu (Human Rights Agenda Association), Idil Eser (amnesty international Turkey), İlknur Üstün (Women’s Coalition), Nalan Erkem, Özlem Dalkiran and Seyhmus Ozbekli (Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly), Nejat Tastan (Association for Monitoring Equal Rights), and their international trainers Ali Gharavi and Peter Steudtner (Hivos) were arrested near Istanbul during a training on IT-Management and dealing with stress and trauma.
By now the Istanbul10 were charged with alledgedly supporting terrorist organisations. At the start of the trial on 25 October 2017 all were released from pre-trial detention. However, the trial continues.
We keep on demanding:
Freedom for the Istanbul10 !
Drop all charges against them !
Protect human rights – in Turkey and everywhere !
News
Final statement of the prosecution: Half of the #Istanbul10 guilty
On the 10th hearing against the #Istanbul10 the state prosecution gave their final statement: Taner Kılıç, Günal Kurşun, İdil Eser, Nejat Taştan, Özlem Dalkıran, Veli Acu: Guilty Ali Gharavi, İlknur Üstün, Nalan Erkem, Peter Steudtner: Not guilty
Trial adjourned again: 27th November 2019
Reasoning, that the prosecutor did not have sufficient time for his final statement, the court postponed it for two more months.
Process adjourned until October 9th, 2019
Prosecution was not able to present final statement. Court did not take any other decisions.
