{"id":116,"date":"2020-04-03T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/?p=116"},"modified":"2020-04-20T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:11:37","slug":"joint-statement-from-speak-up-platform-and-freemuse-remove-the-bans-on-the-grup-yorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/joint-statement-from-speak-up-platform-and-freemuse-remove-the-bans-on-the-grup-yorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement from Speak Up Platform and Freemuse: Remove the bans on Grup Yorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speak Up Platform \/ P24 Independent Journalism Platform and Freemuse made a statement after the death of Helin B\u00f6lek who had been on hunger strike due to pressures against Grup Yorum. In the statement titled \u201cWe are deeply saddened by the death of Helin B\u00f6lek, a member of the Group Comment\u201d, a call was made to remove the pressures on the Grop Yorum.<\/p>\n<p>3 April: Grup Yorum\u2019s singer Helin B\u00f6lek has died on the 288<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0day of her hunger strike, reported Grup Yorum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreemuse is devastated by the outcome of this hunger strike. We strongly urge the Turkish government to take responsibility in providing better protection to artists and reconsider its policy and practices on freedom of artistic expression including accepting demands of Grup Yorum members,\u201d said Dr Srirak Plipat Freemuse Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Grup Yorum\u2019s political songs, the Turkish government deemed the members as terrorists and jailed several group members on the charges of \u201cmembership of a terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Grup Yorum Solidarity Committee, Grup Yorum\u2019s guitarist, \u0130brahim G\u00f6k\u00e7ek and 5 other group members have been placed on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freemuse.org\/news\/freemuse-calls-for-the-turkish-authorities-to-release-detained-members-of-grup-yorum-freemuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cmost wanted terrorists\u201d Turkish list<\/a>. There is a reward of 300,000 Turkish lira (46,000 euros) set on each of them. G\u00f6k\u00e7ek has been jailed for almost 2 years based on a \u201csecret witness\u201d statement and without any indictment or court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Musician Bahar Kurt suspended her hunger strike while guitarist \u0130brahim G\u00f6k\u00e7ek is now on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artistsatriskconnection.org\/story\/grup-yorum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death fast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Grup Yorum Solidarity Committee, the members on hunger strike, have stated the following demands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Grup Yorum\u2019s members be released, and the cases be dropped.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>police raids be ended in the \u0130dil Cultural Centre [in Okmeydan\u0131, \u0130stanbul], that was raided for 10 times in 2 years<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>the removal of the wanted \u2018terrorist lists\u2019 of the Ministry of Interior upon Grup Yorum\u2019s members and sympathizers.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>the removal of the ban on concerts and venues to Grup Yorum concerts.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freemuse and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/platform24.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Susma Platformu (Speak Up Platform) \/ P24 Platform for Independent Journalism<\/a>\u00a0continue to call for the Turkish authorities to release detained musicians, \u00a0end illegitimate restrictions of freedom of artistic expression of the group and accepting the demands of striking artists.<\/p>\n<p>We urge you now more than ever to take actions calling on the Turkish authority to end human rights violations and accept the demand of Grup Yorum by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/turkey-ministry-of-justice-accept-the-demands-of-grup-yorum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing the petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn about the pressure that Grup Yorum has been facing in Turkey and also about the members of the group who had been and have been on hunger strike through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fmSOwlJcmHM\">the video<\/a> that Freemuse and Speak Up Platform published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speak Up Platform \/ P24 Independent Journalism Platform and Freemuse made a statement after the death of Helin B\u00f6lek who had been on hunger strike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2759,2756],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternatives","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}