Labour Party (EMEP) Chair Selma Gürkan was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment in the lawsuit filed against her due to the speech she gave in front of the courthouse during the first hearing of EMEP members, arrested due to distributing “Anti-War” leaflets. The imprisonment sentence was turned into 6000 TL judicial fine.
Convicted of “making illegal organization propaganda,” Gürkan stated, “This sentence is a sentence against a demand for peace, against the right to politics, against the right to freedom of expression.” Gürkan further pointed out that they will never give up on expressing their opinions.
24.04.2019