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Movie Night for Solidarity with Academics in Turkey
March 24, 2017
In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition to draw the public's attention to the brutal acts of violence perpetrated by the state in the Kurdish regions of the country. The petition, entitled "We will not be a party to this crime," is also known as the Peace Petition. The signatories, acting in accord with their responsibility as public intellectuals, hoped to urge the government to end the massacres and acts of destruction that have affected the lives of millions of Kurdish children, women, and men.
Iimmediately after the release of the Peace Petition, the signatories ("Academics for Peace") were subjected to harassment and persecution by the government. Hundreds of them have been subjected to criminal and disciplinary investigations, detention, imprisonment, and violent threats. Unfortunately, the situation has grown even more dire and unacceptable since the failed coup attempt, which took place in July 2016. Welcomed as a 'godsend' by the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the coup attempt has been used as a convenient excuse to establish a more authoritarian regime. A state of emergency was declared and has so far been renewed three times. Under the state of emergency, the president and the cabinet can bypass existing laws and international conventions in order to rule the country by arbitrary governmental decrees. These have been used to target opposition groups, chief among them pro-Kurdish parties, labour unions, etc.
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Robert Gill Theatre
Location: 214 College Street Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/387800378262394/
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal
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