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PEN Norway interview imprisoned Gezi defendant and film maker Çiğdem Mater

“These days will pass, we know it. Knowing we are in the right strengthens our state of inner peace.”

 

Read the Çiğdem Mater interview here: Cigdem Mater interview_TİP-EN

Türkçesini okumak için buraya tıklayınız: Çiğdem Mater Söyleşi_TİP-TR

 

PEN Norway has followed every hearing in the Gezi trial in which film maker Çidem Mater was one of sixteen original defendants charged with ‘Attempting to bring down the state by violent means’.  Mater was accused of having made a documentary about the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and yet no such film was made or shown in a film festival, as the prosecutor claimed.

 

On 25 April, 2022 Çiğdem Mater and her co-defendants in the room were sentenced to 18 years in prison and were immediately arrested. Defendant Osman Kavala, who was already in pre-trial detention was sentenced to life in prison with no parole. PEN Norway witnessed this shocking abuse of the justice system and are interviewing each imprisoned defendant in turn.

 

PEN Norveç film yapımcısı Çiğdem Mater ile birlikte 16 sanığın “cebir ve şiddet kullanarak hükümeti devirmeye teşebbüs” suçu ile yargılandıkları Gezi davasının duruşmalarının tamamını takip etti. Mater 2013 yılında gerçekleşen Gezi Parkı protestoları ile ilgili bir belgesel yapmakla suçlanıyordu. Ancak savcının iddiasının aksine bu tür bir belgesel ne çekildi ne de herhangi bir film festivalinde gösterildi.

25 Nisan 2022 tarihinde Çiğdem Mater ve duruşmada hazır bulunan diğer sanıklar 18 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırıldılar ve mahkeme salonunda tutuklandılar. Halihazırda tutuklu yargılanan Osman Kavala ise ağırlaştırılmış müebbet hapis cezasına çarptırıldı. PEN Norveç yargı sisteminin bu şekilde şok edici bir düzeyde suistimal edilmesine bizzat şahit oldu ve bugün her bir tutuklu sanıkla söyleşi gerçekleştiriyor.

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Women’s resistance in authoritarian Turkey

14 November 6PM

House of Litterature, Oslo.

A panel including a lawyer, journalist, author and human rights activist discuss the role of women in defending press freedom and a wide range of other human rights in Turkey.

We will discuss the role of women reporting in court, the Gezi Park trial, PEN Norway’s collaborations with women lawyers in the successful indictment project and the government’s attempts to close anti-femicide women’s organisations in Turkey.

The panel will be chaired by PEN Norway’s Turkey Adviser Caroline Stockford and will comprise NRK’s recent Istanbul correspondent, journalist Sidsel Wold, Turkey’s foremost feminist activist, author and journalist Ayşe Düzkan and PEN Norway’s legal adviser on Turkey, Ceren Uysal.