{"id":1648,"date":"2026-10-02T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:28:02","slug":"call-for-the-release-of-imprisoned-musician-nudem-durak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/call-for-the-release-of-imprisoned-musician-nudem-durak\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for the release of imprisoned musician N\u00fbdem Durak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The family and lawyer of musician N\u00fbdem Durak, who was jailed in 2015 on charges of \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d for performing music in Kurdish and has been sentenced to a total of 19 years and 6 months in prison, have called for her release, drawing attention to her health problems and prison conditions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durak, who is being held at Erzincan Closed Women\u2019s Prison, faces the risk of losing her voice due to the progression of her toxic goitre and osteoporosis. Durak\u2019s lawyer, Ali \u00c7imen, stated that the musician had been convicted on charges of \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d in two separate cases, emphasizing that her artistic activities formed the basis of the prosecutions. The lawyer explained that Durak\u2019s instrument had been broken and that her new guitar had not been handed over to her by the prison authorities, adding that the musician was being prevented from continuing her art whilst in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c7imen also stated that, following the rejection of Durak\u2019s application to the Constitutional Court regarding a violation of his rights, they had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights; however, requests for a deferment of his sentence on grounds of health issues had also been rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call has been made for the release of the musician, who has been in prison since 2015 on charges of \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d in connection with performing Kurdish music, citing her health problems and prison conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753],"tags":[3135,3137,3136,3134],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases","tag-call","tag-kurdish-music","tag-membership-in-a-terrorist-organization","tag-nudem-durak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}