WE ARE CONTINUING OUR PURSUE FOR JUSTICE WITH THE JUSTICE SHIP
The JUSTICE SHIP is beginning its' voyage with the initiative of a group of intelectuals (jury members).
We, as intelectuals, artists, journalists, authors and lawyers, will pursue justice with the JUSTICE SHIP which will harbour in different ports of Istanbul. The Justice Ship is an expression of the deep aspiration of the popular demand for justice, which is a bleeding wound in this country. Years before, Police Chief Director Mehmet Agar, stated to the painful wife of the assasinated journalist Ugur Mumcu, Guldal Mumcu that, “If a sole brick is pulled, the whole wall can fall”, but added that, “We can't do this, because the wall will fall atop of all of us.” The Justice Ship is the symbol of the justice demand of the people, the intelectuals, artists, lawyers, those aggreived of injustice and massacres. It is the expression of the demand that the assasins, the responsibles of the massacres should be tried.
We, as the suffered people and intelectuals, cannot stay silent against the injustices like the protection of the responsibles of the 12th of September coup d'etat with an article of the Constitution, like the torturers being acquitted by legal timeout, like that the massacre responsables and “One thousand operation” criminals kept out from being tried.
The Justice Ship will be a meaningful response to the ones who try to make the society forget the 1st of May 1977 massacre, Gazi, Sivas, Maras, Corum massacres, assasinated intelectuals, like Sabahattin Ali, Ugur Mumcu, Kemal Turkler, Abdi Ipekci, Musa Anter, Hrant Dink, scandals of Susurluk and Semdinli.
Symbolic trials will be held in the Justice Ship in Kadikoy, Bakirkoy, Bostancı, Besiktas ports of Istanbul, in the below noted dates. The names of the jury members are also noted below.
JUSTICE SHIP ACTIVITY PROGRAMME
*10th of April, 2007, Tuesday. 10 a.m. Kadikoy port. Trial about Susurluk and Semdinli scandals.
Jury members
Ferhat Tunç (Artist)
Celalettin Can (78’ers Turkey Initiative Spokesman)
Emine Ocak (Mother of the dissappeared Hasan Ocak)
Deniz Tuna (Lawyer of Seferi Yılmaz, whose bookshop was bombed in Semdinli)
Eren Keskin (Lawyer)
Keleş Öztürk (Lawyer)
*11th of April, 2007, Wednesday. 10 a.m. Bakirkoy port. Thi trial about the massacres Gazi, Maras, Sivas, Corum.
Jury members
İlkay Akkaya (Artist)
Mazlum Çimen (Artist)
Suavi (Artist)
Nevzat Karakuş (Artist)
Sabri Kuşkonmaz (Lawyer, Poet-Author)
Kemal Aytaç (Lawyer)
Mukaddes Erdoğdu Çelik (Journalist-Author)
Maside Ocak (Sister of Hasan Ocak)
*12th of April, 2007, Thursday. 10 a.m. Bostanci port. Trial about assasinations of intelectuals.
Jury members
Perihan Mağden (Columnist-Author)
Sabahat Türkler (Wife of the murdered DİSK General Secretary Kemal Türkler)
Orhan Miroğlu (Wounded together with Musa Anter, in the assault that killed him, author.)
Mustafa Yalçıner (Friend of the killed journalist Metin Göktepe, columnist)
Hasan Sağlam (Artist)
Rasim Öz (Lawyer)
Necati Abay (Spokesman for the Platform of Solidarity with the Imprisoned Journalists, author)
Birsen Gülünay (Daughter of Bayram Eyi, killed in the worker resistance of 15-16 June 1970; wife of the dissappeared Hasan Gülünay)
*13th of April, 2007, Friday. 10 a.m. Besiktas port. Trial about Taksim 1st of May 1977 massacre.
Jury members
Rasim Öz (Eyewithess of the Taksim 1st of May 1977 massacre and lawyer of this trial.)
Halil Ergün (Artist)
Fehmi Işıklar (Ex-General Secretary of DİSK and ex-member of parliament)
Orhan Doğan (Ex-member of parliament)
Celalettin Can (78’ers Turkey Initiative Spokesman)
Ali Eriş (Eyewitness of the Taksim 1st of May 1977 massacre)
Yaşar Seyman (Labor unionist, columnist)
Özlem Gümüştaş (ICAD Turkey Representative, lawyer)
Jacques Robert (President of the UNIA Labour Union, Switzerland)
JUSTICE SHIP JURY MEMBERS
Perihan Mağden, Ferhat Tunç, İlkay Akkaya, Rasim Öz, Halil Ergün, Fehmi Işıklar, Orhan Doğan, Emine Ocak, Celalettin Can, Ali Eriş, Yaşar Seyman, Mukaddes Erdoğdu Çelik, Hasan Sağlam, Orhan Miroğlu, Sabahat Türkler, Mustafa Yalçıner, Maside Ocak, Eren Keskin, Deniz Tuna, Kemal Aytaç, Sabri Kuşkonmaz, Keleş Öztürk, Necati Abay, Jacques Robert, Nevzat Karakış, Birsen Gülünay, Özlem Gümüştaş, Mazlum Çimen, Suavi
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