Poet, writer and translator Erkut Tokman wrote a review for the Speak Up Platform on the autobiographical book of poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been deprived of his freedom for 27 years, “Not to Destroy the Ant’s Nest”
Poet, writer and translator Erkut Tokman wrote a review for the Speak Up Platform on the autobiographical book of poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been deprived of his freedom for 27 years, “Not to Destroy the Ant’s Nest”
Yılmaz Odabaşı, who was on trial for “insulting the President” via his social media posts was sentenced to prison for 11 months and 20 days. The Court did not suspend Odabaşı’s punishment.
The author and poet Meral Şimşek was sentenced to prison for 1 year and 3 months in the case she was on trial for “terrorist organization membership” and “terrorist organization propaganda”
Photographer and poet Mehmet Özer was given a prison sentence of 1 year and 3 months for sharing on his social media accounts the photographs belonging to the exhibition named 12 September Museum of Shame and the photographs he took at various demonstrations and memorials, on the grounds of “making propaganda in favour of terrorist organisation”
The Speak Up Platform organized an event about poet İlhan Sami Çomak who has been in prison for 27 years within the scope of Kıraathane Book Fair with the participation of Burhan Sönmez and İpek Özel
Fırat Aydınkaya, the attorney of poet İlhan Çomak who has been imprisoned for a quarter of a century, writes in SUSMA about the ‘‘unjust’’ trial which has been continuing for 22 years