{"id":10373,"date":"2016-10-28T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2016-10-28T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:53:43","slug":"release-them-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10373","title":{"rendered":"Release them now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite strongly condemned Tuesday evening\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (October 25) detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir Ms G\u0102\u013dltan K\u00c4\u00b1\u0139\u017aanak and Mr F\u00c4\u00b1rat Anl\u00c4\u00b1 and the subsequent police attacks on civilians who were protesting against these unlawful and anti-democratic arrests of their elected representatives.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe co-mayors have been arrested as part of an alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u0098terrorism investigation,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and are part of a long list of Kurdish mayors who have been sacked and replaced with state-appointed trustees under emergency powers enacted after the coup attempt in July this year.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnite strongly believes that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u00c4\u017aan, has used the failed coup in July 2016 as an opportunity to repress those who oppose him and used his failure to gain an absolute majority in the June 2015 general election to relaunch the war against the Kurds.<\/p>\n

 
\nThousands, including trade unionists, journalists, teachers, politicians and people associated with opposition to the current government have been suspended from their jobs, detained and arrested with dozens of media outlets closed or taken over by the state.<\/p>\n

 
\nG\u0102\u013dltan K\u00c4\u00b1\u0139\u017aanak and F\u00c4\u00b1rat Anl\u00c4\u00b1 have been prominent critics of the Erdo\u00c4\u017aan government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s war against the Kurdish population and like many who have spoken out in Turkey, have now been detained.<\/p>\n

 
\nKate Osamor MP, who visited Diyarbakir this month as part of a solidarity delegation, said about the events, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI am deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation unfolding in Turkey and the extreme repression being imposed on the Kurdish population. This latest attack on elected representatives is a clear indication that the government of president Erdo\u00c4\u017aan is accelerating down the path of authoritarian rule with democracy and civil society suffering real repression.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI once again call on the wider international community to engage more actively to ensure basic rights and democratic freedoms are protected in this dangerously turbulent time in Turkey,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she noted.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnite international director Simon Dubbins, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is yet a further stepping up in Erdo\u00c4\u017aan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s war against the Kurdish population of Turkey. Unite has witnessed first-hand the massive and disproportionate force that has been used in Kurdish cities such as Cizre, Silopi and Diyarbakir itself. Unite will continue to demand that the attacks on the Kurds end.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite once again calls on governments and international bodies to make it absolutely clear that unjustified detentions are not acceptable, that the rule of law with a fully independent judiciary must be respected,” Dubbins noted. “Attacks on free and independent media must stop immediately and opposition parties, trade unions, elected representatives and civil society must be able to function without obstruction or repression.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will continue to stand in full solidarity with the Kurds and all progressive forces in Turkey who seek to maintain a secular Turkey while building a real democratic system based on peace, equality and freedom for all citizens.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite calls for the immediate release of Ms G\u0102\u013dltan K\u00c4\u00b1\u0139\u017aanak and Mr. F\u00c4\u00b1rat Anl\u00c4\u00b1 and their reinstatement as the democratically elected co mayors of Diyarbakir.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite strongly condemned Tuesday evening\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (October 25) detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir Ms G\u0102\u013dltan K\u00c4\u00b1\u0139\u017aanak and Mr F\u00c4\u00b1rat Anl\u00c4\u00b1 and the subsequent police attacks on civilians who were protesting against these unlawful and anti-democratic arrests of their elected representatives.   The co-mayors have been arrested as part of an alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u0098terrorism investigation,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[158,618],"wps_subtitle":"Unite condemns arrest of mayors in Turkey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}