Stop the State of Israel: A Call by a Group of Academics for Peace from Turkey

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14.11.2023

We are releasing the statement signed by 270 Academics for Peace from Turkey:

Stop the State of Israel: A Call by a Group of Academics for Peace from Turkey[1]

The state of Israel, which has been illegally occupying the Palestinian territories for 56 years and has been besieging Gaza since 2006 in violation of international law, as also stated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations[2], is today committing another crime against the Palestinian people in front of the eyes of the whole world. On October 7, 2023, the “Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions” consisting of a total of 12 Palestinian organisations with diverse political orientations[3] – often reported in the media only as Hamas – crossed the Gaza border and killed more than 1400 people, most of them civilians, with air and ground attacks.  The Israeli state thereupon, using this massacre almost as an excuse or even “opportunity”, began to apply the heaviest state terror against the Palestinian people to date. In the midst of these massacres, we witnessed the constant bombing of hospitals, the complete destruction of two hospitals, the bombing of ambulance convoys and the open declaration of the Israeli state that it will not recognise any law of war. As of November 6, the death toll in Gaza is estimated to have exceeded 10,000, including thousands of children and women.

The Israeli government today uses Hamas' recent attacks as a pretext for its massacres, but we know that the Palestinian people have been subjected to intense repression and violence by the Israeli security forces even in the absence of Hamas. The Israeli government, which has been labelled an apartheid regime by many Jewish diaspora initiatives[4] as well as by political and civil initiatives of Israeli citizens, implies in front of the eyes of the world that it aims to wipe out the people of Gaza, estimated at 2.2 million, from the face of the earth.  The land operation launched by Israel amounts to ethnic cleansing and even genocide.

We are already witnessing the voices of many Israeli academics, journalists and intellectuals who are speaking out[5],[6] and who are now being targeted and witch-hunted by their own state[7],[8] for questioning the official narrative of the state. We heard the voices of these brave people who are speaking out against their own state's unjust war and massacres during the Gaza bombardment in 2014[9].  It gives hope to see that the number of people joining this voice has increased exponentially after Israel's massacres in Gaza today.  As Academics for Peace from Turkey, we are well aware of the silencing and intimidation methods that states can use against dissenting voices, especially in extraordinary situations such as war, and therefore we stand in strong solidarity with both our Palestinian colleagues and our colleagues in Israel who speak out against the crimes of their state.

We, the undersigned Academics for Peace from Turkey, call on the international public, politicians and media to take a stand against Israel's massacres.  We also call on Turkey to cut all military, commercial and diplomatic relations with Israel until the occupation ends and peace is established. As in all conflicts in the world, a lasting peace can only be secured if the oppressed have an equal say in peace negotiations.

 

  1. A. Celil Kaya
  2. Adalet B. Alada
  3. Adnan Şahin
  4. Ahmet Bülent Özer
  5. Ahmet Çinici
  6. Ahmet Ersoy
  7. Ahmet Haşim Köse
  8. Ahmet Muhtar Çakmak
  9. Ahu Ersözlü
  10. Akın Atauz
  11. Ali Kerem Saysel
  12. Ali Taşıran
  13. Ali Yalçın Göymen
  14. Aliye Kovanlıkaya
  15. Alper Açık
  16. Alper Kaliber
  17. Anıl Duman
  18. Aslı Davas
  19. Aslı Kayhan
  20. Aslı Odman
  21. Aslı Takanay
  22. Aslı Telli
  23. Atakan Büke
  24. Aydın Gelmez
  25. Aydın Ördek
  26. Aydoğan Kars
  27. Ayfer Bartu Candan
  28. Aynur Özuğurlu
  29. Ayşe Arslan
  30. Ayşe Durakbaşa
  31. Ayşe Erzan
  32. Ayşe Gül Yılgör
  33. Ayşe Gözen
  34. Ayşe Serdar
  35. Ayten Alkan
  36. Bahadır Aydın
  37. Banu Can
  38. Barış Taşyakan
  39. Barış Ünlü
  40. Barış Yapışkan
  41. Başak Derinel
  42. Bediz Yılmaz
  43. Benan Eres
  44. Berna Kılınç
  45. Beyza Üstün
  46. Biray Kolluoğlu
  47. Bülent Aslan
  48. Bülent Küçük
  49. Can Açıksöz
  50. Can Candan
  51. Can Şeker
  52. Caner Doğan
  53. Caner Ercan
  54. Cankat Tanrıverdi
  55. Cem Oyvat
  56. Cem Özatalay
  57. Cemil Yıldızcan
  58. Cenk Yiğiter
  59. Ceren Özselçuk
  60. Ceren Şengül
  61. Cesim Çelik
  62. Cihan Yapıştıran
  63. Cumhur İzgi
  64. Cüneyt Başbuğu
  65. Çare Olgun Çalışkan
  66. Çağlar Dölek
  67. Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu
  68. D. Emrah Zıraman
  69. Damla Karaman
  70. Demet Bolat
  71. Derya Keskin
  72. Didem Danış
  73. Dilek Hattatoğlu
  74. E. Ahmet Tonak
  75. Ebru Işıklı
  76. Ece Algan
  77. Eda Aslı Şeran
  78. Efe Arık
  79. Ekin Barış Şah
  80. Ekin Dedeoğlu
  81. Elif Sandal Önal
  82. Emel Yuvayapan
  83. Emrah Günok
  84. Emre Çetin Gürer
  85. Ercan Şen
  86. Erdal Gilgil
  87. Erdem Üngür
  88. Eren Paydaş
  89. Ergün Özgür
  90. Erhan Bayram
  91. Erhan Yalçındağ
  92. Erol Köroğlu
  93. Esmeray Yoğun
  94. Esra Akbalık
  95. Esra Dabağcı
  96. Esra Ergüzeloğlu
  97. Esra Ertan
  98. Esra Mungan
  99. Evun Sevgi Okumuş
  100. Eylem Tek
  101. F. Ceren Akçabay
  102. Faize Deniz Mardin
  103. Fatma Gök
  104. Fatma Ünsal
  105. Ferda Fahrioğlu-Akın
  106. Feryal Saygılıgil
  107. Fırat Çapan
  108. Fikret Uyar
  109. Filiz Arıöz
  110. Fuat Özdinç
  111. Funda Karapehlivan
  112. Gençay Gürsoy
  113. Görkem Akgöz
  114. Gözde Aytemur
  115. Gülcan Ergün
  116. Gülhan Türkay
  117. Güler Fişek
  118. Gülsün Güvenli
  119. Gürel Tüzün
  120. Hacer Ansal
  121. Hacı Çevik
  122. Hakan Altun
  123. Hakan Koçak
  124. Halis Ulaş
  125. Hanifi Barış
  126. Hazel Başköy
  127. Heval Bozbay
  128. Hilal Alkan
  129. Hilmi Tezgör
  130. Hülya Dinçer
  131. Hülya Doğan
  132. Işıl Ünal
  133. İ. Kuban Altınel
  134. İbrahim Yaman
  135. İlkay Özküralpli
  136. İlker Cörüt
  137. İpek Türeli
  138. İrfan Eroğlu
  139. Kaan Ağartan
  140. Kazım Tolga Gürel
  141. Kerem Eksen
  142. Koray Sakarya
  143. Kumru Toktamış
  144. Kuvvet Lordoğlu
  145. Latife Akyüz
  146. Leyla Şimşek-Rathke
  147. Lülüfer Körükmez
  148. Lütfiye Bozdağ
  149. M. Barış Gümüşbaş
  150. Mehmet Emin Karaaslan
  151. Mehmet Onur Yılmaz
  152. Mehmet Türkay
  153. Melek Zorlu
  154. Melih Kırlıdoğ
  155. Meral Camcı
  156. Meral Demirel
  157. Meryem Koray
  158. Mert Büyükkarabacak
  159. Mesut Coşkun
  160. Mevlüt Yaprak
  161. Mihrican Zorlu Günok
  162. Murat Büyükyılmaz
  163. Murat Gülsoy
  164. Murat Koyuncu
  165. Murat Özbank
  166. Murat Özyükseli
  167. Mustafa Altıntop
  168. Mustafa Çapar
  169. Mustafa Kemal Coşkun
  170. Mustafa Kerem Yüksel
  171. Mustafa Oğuz Sinemillioğlu
  172. Mustafa Şener
  173. Muzaffer Kaya
  174. Nagehan Tokdoğan
  175. Nazan Üstündağ
  176. Nazım Dikbaş
  177. Nazlı Bülay Doğan
  178. Nergis Perçinel
  179. Nesrin Sungur Çakmak
  180. Neşe Özgen
  181. Neşe Şen
  182. Nil Mutluer
  183. Nilay Etiler
  184. Nilgün Toker
  185. Nur Bekata Mardin
  186. Nur Betül Çelik
  187. Nur Yasemin Ural
  188. Nurçin İleri
  189. Nuri Ersoy
  190. Nüket Esen
  191. Nükhet Sirman
  192. Olcay Akyıldız
  193. Olcay Kunal
  194. Olga Selin Hünler
  195. Onur Hamzaoğlu
  196. Onur Özgür
  197. Orhan Kaya
  198. Osman İşçi
  199. Öget Öktem Tanör
  200. Ömer Faruk Yekdeş
  201. Özdemir Aktan
  202. Özge Ertem
  203. Özgür Çiçek
  204. Özgür Müftüoğlu
  205. Özgür Orhangazi
  206. Özhan Önder
  207. Özlem Özkan
  208. Öznur Yaşar Diner
  209. Pınar Şenoğuz
  210. Ramazan Kurt
  211. Rana Gürbüz
  212. Rıfat Okçabol
  213. Ruşen Işık
  214. Saadet Sorgunlu
  215. Seçil Doğuç
  216. Seçkin Özsoy
  217. Seda Altuğ
  218. Sedat Yağcıoğlu
  219. Selda Altınok
  220. Selim Eskiizmirliler
  221. Selime Güzelsarı
  222. Sema Bayraktar
  223. Serdar Başçetin
  224. Serdar Tekin
  225. Sevgi Adak
  226. Sevil Çakır
  227. Seyhan Çamlıgüney
  228. Sezai Ozan Zeybek
  229. Sezen Çilengir
  230. Sibel Irzık
  231. Sibel Özbudun
  232. Sibel Perçinel
  233. Simten Coşar
  234. Suzan Yazıcı
  235. Sümercan Bozkurt
  236. Şafak Aykaç
  237. Şahan Yatarkalkmaz
  238. Şahika Yüksel
  239. Şebnem Korur Fincancı
  240. Şebnem Oğuz
  241. Şükrü Boylu
  242. Tahsin Yeşildere
  243. Tamer Demiralp
  244. Tezcan Durna
  245. Tijen Tunalı
  246. Tuba Akıncılar
  247. Tuna Altınel
  248. Turan Keskin
  249. Umut Ezgi Bozdağ
  250. Umut Soytaş
  251. Ülkü Güney
  252. Ümit Biçer
  253. Veli Deniz
  254. Volkan Çidam
  255. Yasemin Özgün
  256. Yaşar Akdağ
  257. Yeşim Ediş Şahin
  258. Yücel Demirer
  259. Yücel Candemir
  260. Z. Gizem Sayın
  261. Z. Tül Akbal Süalp
  262. Zafer Yenal
  263. Zelal Beyaz Karcal
  264. Zerrin Kurtoğlu Şahin
  265. Zeynep Gambetti
  266. Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu
  267. Zeynep Kıvılcım
  268. Zeynep Uysal
  269. Zeynep Yürekli
  270. Zişan Kürüm