Petition calling for support for the shut-down media sources: ‘Voices and colors cannot be silenced!’
In the face of government’s latest crackdown on more media sources – TVs and radios – enforced based on ‘state of emergency decrees’, journalists and authors have started a major petition with the invitation of HAZİRAN movement.
Titled as ‘We are protecting the right of people to obtain information’, the petition has already received numerous signatures from authors, reporters, and journalists, including the prominent public figures Zülfü Livaneli, L.Doğan Tılıç, Bülent Mumay, and Ahmet Ümit.
In the call for the petition, the main message that has been sent across is ‘voices and colors cannot be silenced’.
Parts of the message are as the following: “If the bloody coup attempt of July 15 had been successful, all voices and newspapers would have been shut down. The coup attempt was suppressed but another period of a coup has currently been experienced by AKP’s ‘state of emergency.’
They (AKP government) continue trying to silence voices and colors by oppressing the newspapers, TV channels, and radios. These decisions for a crackdown on media, police raids, and arrests are all made with the excuse of OHAL (state of emergency) for the purpose of silencing any voice that is against AKP.
We are going to stand shoulder to shoulder against this bullying over İMC TV, Hayatın Sesi TV, Yön Radio, and Özgür Radio and against intentions of the government to take apart all part of life.
We call on all people who are against pressure on free media to be the voice of free media and the voice of İMC, Hayatın Sesi, Yön, Özgür, and all other oppressed.
We are not going to be silenced! We are not going to remain silent about the silencing of the voices for freedoms, democracy, secularism, and peace!”
The petition, called ‘Voices will not be silenced’, can be reached and signed at http://www.seslersusmayacak.org/.
Ahmet Abakay
Ahmet Büke
Ahmet Şık
Ahmet Ümit
Ali Murat Hamarat
Ali Murat İrat
Aslı Tohumcu
Atilla Aşut
Ayşenur Arslan
Ayça Söylemez
Ataol Behramoğlu
Banu Güven
Burcu Cansu
Bülent Usta
Barış İnce
Bülent Mumay
Burcu Karakaş
Can Soyer
Ceyda Karan
Doğan Tılıç
Doğan Ergün
Elif Ilgaz
Emrah Polat
Emrah Serbes
Ender Helvacıoğlu
Enver Aysever
Erdem Gül
Erk Acarer
Ertuğrul Mavioğlu
Erol Önderoğlu
Fatih Polat
Fatih Yaşlı
Fehim Işık
Gamze Yücesan Özdemir
Güray Öz
Hakan Gülseven
Hakan Demir
Haydar Ergülen
Hüseyin Şimşek
Hayri Kozanoğlu
İbrahim Varlı
İsmet Demirdöğen
Kemal Göktaş
Melih Pekdemir
Merdan Yanardağ
Mesut Hasan Benli
Mustafa Kuleli
Mustafa Kemal Erdemol
Mustafa Hoş
Nurcan Gökdemir
Onur Behramoğlu
Onurkan Avcı
Özgür Mumcu
Sabahat Karakoyun
Rıfat Doğan
Serpil Güvenç
Selçuk Candansayar
Seçil Türkkan
Sedat Bozkurt
Seray Şahiner
Şükrü Erbaş
Timur Soykan
Tunca Öğreten
Turan Eser
Türey Köse
Uğur Koç
Yaşar Aydın
Zülfü Livaneli