The Ankara Governor’s Office has banned a meeting, which was planned by the victims of a government purge in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, in Ankara over the weekend.
Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government declared a state of emergency in the aftermath of the failed coup in the country on July 15, 2016, which remained in effect until July 19, 2018.
During the state of emergency, the AKP issued a number of government decrees, known as KHKs, through which more than 150,000 academics, politicians, teachers, doctors, officials, businessmen, artists and journalists have been purged due to their real or alleged connections to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of being behind the failed coup. The movement strongly denies any involvement in the failed coup.
Many purge victims as well as their family members would come together for what they call, “the big meeting,” in Ankara over the weekend to ask for their reinstatement to their jobs and discuss their problems.
The Ankara Governor’s Office informed the Yılmaz Güney Stage Directorate, where the meeting would take place, that the meeting has been banned and cannot take place there.
During the meeting, the purge victims would discuss psychological and economic problems they have been undergoing after they were purged from their jobs and some sessions would be held under the titles, “Being the other,” “The judicial desk,” “Resisting in an organized way” and “Resisting with the help of law.”
The meeting would be attended by Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy who frequently brings up problems of the purge victims as well as the mothers of military cadets who were arrested in the aftermath of the coup and were given life sentences on coup charges although they say they have nothing to do with the coup attempt.
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from Turkish Minute https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/10/04/ankara-governors-office-bans-meeting-planned-by-purge-victims/
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