{"id":7283,"date":"2019-10-20T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationaljournalists.org\/news\/franfurt-kitap-fuari-basin-bildirimiz.html"},"modified":"2019-10-20T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T17:53:21","slug":"our-press-release-in-frankfurt-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationaljournalists.org\/tr\/our-press-release-in-frankfurt-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Press Release in Frankfurt Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“We are comming where hundred thousands books were burnt up” <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here we are today, attending one of the\nmost prominent book fairs in the world. And yet we come from a country where\nhundreds of thousands of books had been burnt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I am about to tell you might sound\nfamiliar from the Nazi era, but it is currently happening in present-day\nTurkey, a country held as a hostage by the Erdogan regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Hundreds of thousands of books had been banned\nin one night, through lists published by the Erdogan regime. People who had\nthese books in their possession were to be tried as terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People secretly started to throw away\nthe books they had in their houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They found fingerprints of Arzu Ak\u00e7akaya, a history teacher, on a book found in a dumpster. She was arrested and sent to prison along with her ten months old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unprecedented in history, this incident\nhappened in Turkey, in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Arzu Ak\u00e7akaya, thousands got\narrested on terror charges because of the books they read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the Turkish authors whose works\nare present today in this fair have been imprisoned for years. Ahmet Altan,\nNazli Ilicak and many other prominent writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last three years, figures for\nbooks exterminated by the government reach to millions. Solely the Ministry of\nEducation exterminated 301 thousand books according to its figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People now can cast away the prohibited\nbooks only after they cleaned the fingerprints on them, or they just burn the\nbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are journalists in exile who could find a migrant boat and escape the Erdogan regime. But more than 200 of our journalist and writer colleagues are in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six years, ten years, twenty years… some of them are even sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“We haven’t forgotten you… deeply miss you”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here from the Frankfurt book fair, we\nwant to shout out that our hearts are with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We haven’t forgotten you. In your\nabsence, Turkey has become a war-generating country. We terribly need you. We\ndeeply miss you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\nWe call on every free soul on earth to stand in solidarity with the captive journalists and writers in Turkey.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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