A travesty in Turkey: the Gezi Park trials | podcast | News

A prominent philanthropist and seven other individual legal rights activists happen discovered responsible in a Turkish court of fees linked to the Gezi Park protests in 2013 plus the unsuccessful coup effort in 2016.

Sami Kent tells Michael Safi that laws designed to prosecute individuals faced with violently overthrowing the Turkish state happen utilized to criminalise non-violent protesters whom opposed the us government.

Among the eight defendants in court final thirty days had been the veteran architect and activist Mücella Yapıcı. We hear from her daughter Cansu Yapıcı about the conditions her mother faces in jail on her behalf 18-year phrase. And from Handay Altinay, whose spouse Hakan had been additionally jailed for 18 years for their component within the protests.

The European court of individual legal rights has said there is inadequate proof he committed an offence, and that their arrest had been an effort to “silence him and dissuade other individual legal rights defenders”.

The sentencing marks the Turkish authorities’ deepest & most general public crackdown on dissent and freedom of construction within the previous decade and threatens to harm Turkish relations with European countries after hefty critique regarding the marathon trial.

Amnesty Global called the choice “a travesty of justice”, and said the test had been “a politically determined charade”.

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