November 7, 2015

Zaman daily issues historic call to protect democracy, human rights

Dozens of well-respected intellectuals, politicians and journalists have supported a historic call by the Zaman daily to defend fundamental human rights, media freedoms, rule of law and democracy in Turkey.

The Zaman daily issued a call on its Saturday edition titled: “Let’s protect democracy, rule of law, human rights and press freedom for the future of our children and our country.” A total number of 134 intellectuals, academics, politicians and journalists lent support to the call for now with more expected to join the call in the following days.

Among those who joined Zaman’s call are: Ahmet Altan, Ahmet Ümit, Altan Tan, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Barış Yarkadaş, Baskın Oran, Cafer Solgun, Cem Toker, Ekrem Dumanlı, Ertuğrul Günay, Eser Karakaş, Esra Yalazan, Haluk Özdalga, Hayko Bağdat, Hüda Kaya, Kazım Güleçyüz, Mahmut Tanal, Koray Çalışkan, Mehmet Bekaroğlu, Durmuş Yılmaz, Mustafa Çalışkan, Nur Sürer, Özgür Özel, Perihan Mağden, Pınar Türenç, Sedef Kabaş, Turgay Oğur, Utku Çakırözer, Ünal Tanık, Yasemin Çongar, Yavuz Baydar and Yılmaz Karakoyunlu.

Published on Today's Zaman, 7 November 2015, Saturday