"Laboratuvarımda hasta çocuklara umut olmak için çalışırken çatışma ortamındaki çocukların ölümünü görmezden mi gelmeliydim, günlerce bu düşünceler aklımdan çıkmadı."

Marmara Üniversitesi Eczacılık Fakültesi'nden ihraç edilen Yrd. Doç. Dr. Filiz Arıöz'ün Barış İçin Akademisyenler'in "Bu suça ortak olmayacağız" bildirisini imzalaması sebebiyle "Terör örgütü propagandası" iddiasıyla Çağlayan'daki İstanbul Adliyesi'nde 37. Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi'nde yargılandığı davadaki beyanını yayınlıyoruz. 

As members of academic communities around the world, we strongly condemn the sentencing of Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel of Galatasaray University in İstanbul to 15 months in prison. Prof. Füsun Üstel was charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” (Article No. 7/2 of Turkey’s Anti-Terror Law No. 3713), because she, together with over two thousand other academics in Turkey, signed the Academics for Peace statement “We will not be a party to this crime,” which criticized military actions in the Kurdish regions of the country.[1] Prof.

Academic Feryal Delfin Saygılıgil from Arel University has been sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The court has ruled that the pronouncement of the verdict shall be suspended.

Trial of academics, who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" for having signed the declaration entitled "We will not be a party to this crime" prepared by the Academics for Peace, continued in İstanbul Çağlayan Courthouse today (March 13).

Two courts have sentenced two academics to 15 months in prison for the same charge, deferred the announcement of the verdicts.

Trial of academics, who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" for having signed the declaration entitled "We will not be a party to this crime" prepared by the Academics for Peace, continued in i̇stanbul çağlayan courthouse yesterday (March 13).