After Osman Kavala and other names were sentenced to prison with heavy sentences in the case of Gezi Park events, the so-called artists who were reflected in the decision prepared a statement.
117 names consisting of directors, actors and screenwriters said, “Wherever we stand during the Gezi process, we are still there today.” He signed a statement containing his statements. The following statements were included in the declaration signed by names such as Müjde Ar, Mehmet Günsür, Nur Sürer, Mert Fırat, Ercan Kesal, Perihan Savaş, Halil Ergün, Şevket Çoruh and Meltem Cumbul:
We are there”
“Where we stood during the Gezi process, which was started 9 years ago in 2013 by conscientious people to protect their city and spread across the country and shared by millions, today we are there again.
Previously acquitted of the same charge , considers that the 18-year sentences given to Mücella Yapıcı, Can Atalay, Tayfun Kahraman, Mine Özerden, Hakan Altınay, and Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi, including our colleague Çiğdem Mater, and aggravated life imprisonment sentences to Osman Kavala have been given to ourselves and there is no concrete evidence. We object to this decision, which is not based on evidence.
We, as filmmakers of this country, are the word, voice and face of the society we came from. it is a debt of ours not to do our best to turn it into flesh and bring our country from darkness to light; We consider it a duty to build a Turkey where we can live freely.
We will not stand by as a spectator to this unlawful act, which is evidently attempted to establish an empire of fear. We will not be silent. We are not afraid, we are not cowering!”
