{"id":6712,"date":"2021-04-22T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:33:57","slug":"patrabuem-neadkladana-admyanicz-prysud-i-vyzvalicz-syabru-kurdskaga-pena-gyulgesh-deryaspi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2021\/04\/22\/patrabuem-neadkladana-admyanicz-prysud-i-vyzvalicz-syabru-kurdskaga-pena-gyulgesh-deryaspi.html","title":{"rendered":"Conviction of Kurdish PEN member must be overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A verdict on her appeal is expected by the end of April. PEN International believes that Gulge\u015f Deryasp\u00ee is being targeted for her writings promoting Kurdish language and culture and calls for her conviction to be overturned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TAKE ACTION: Please send appeals to the Turkish authorities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calling for the conviction of Gulge\u015f Deryasp\u00ee to be overturned;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calling for an end to the prosecution and detention of journalists and writers simply on the basis of the content of their writing or alleged affiliation, and for all those held in prison for exercising their rights to freedom of expression to be immediately released;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calling for an end to the crackdown on the Kurdish regions and for a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Abdulhamit G\u00fcl<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Role: Minister of Justice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Address: Ministry of Justice, Adalet Bakanl\u0131\u011f\u0131, 06659 Ankara, Turkey<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact: <a href=\"mailto:info@adalet.gov.tr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">info@adalet.gov.tr<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abdulhamitgul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Send copies to the Embassy of Turkey in your own country. Embassy addresses may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/embassy.goabroad.com\/embassies-of\/turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">***Please send appeals immediately.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kurdish PEN member and writer Gulge\u015f Deryasp\u00ee was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for \u2018membership of a terrorist organisation\u2019 in December 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-creative-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}