Name: Nuriye Gülmen
Profession: Research assistant at Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
Start date of the resistance: 9 November 2016
Place of the beginning of the resistance: Human Rights Monument, Yüksel Avenue, Ankara, Turkey,
Date of arrest: 22 August 2020
Current location: Silivri prison complex, Istanbul Province, Turkey
From this link you can sign the petition. You can sign the petition only until May 24th 2022.
https://www.change.org/p/nuriye-gülmen-tahliye-edilsin
When there is tyranny there is also resistance to it
Nuriye Gülmen is a university lecturer from Turkey who is guided in her actions by these words.
She is just one of the 7,915 university professors who were fired from their jobs overnight by a decree-law issued under the state of emergency declared on 21 July 2016 by the fascist AKP government.
She has not retreated to her corner like all other university lecturers who have been thrown out of their jobs. She began to protest on Yüksel Avenue in Ankara, holding a piece of cardboard on which were written the words, “I have been dismissed, I want my job back!”
She has resisted from the first day she was dismissed from her job until today. She was arrested by the police dozens of times, she was imprisoned based on false evidence. She went on a hunger strike that lasted 324 days. She brought people in Turkey and around the world on their feet!
To punish Nuriye Gülmen for her relentless resistance, the fascist AKP government used “digital evidence” and the testimonies of police informants, informers, and collaborators, and on 22 August 2020, she was imprisoned under a court case that from the start became a conspiracy against her.
While she was in the women’s prison, in the Silivri prison complex, near Istanbul, Nuriye Gülmen was expelled as a member of the Education and Science Workers’ Union (Eğitim-Sen in Turkish) part of the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions in Turkey (abbreviated as KESK in Turkish). This happened on the 11th. Congress of the trade union which was held at the end of November 2020, and practically at that time Nuriye Gülmen could not defend herself from the false allegations made against her by a large number of the trade unionists.
The leaders of the second-largest workers’ union – DİSK, the Confederation of Progressive Workers’ Unions, instead of supporting Nuriye Gülmen and the other workers which were thrown out of their jobs, chose to become collaborators of the fascist government and shook hands with the Turkish Minister of the Interior, Süleyman Soylu, who is known for his hatred against the workers.
Neither of Turkey’s two major trade union confederations, DİSK and KESK, uniting hundreds of workers and civil servants, defended the imprisoned Nuriye Gülmen and the other workers which were thrown out of their jobs.
In conclusion:
The ongoing lawsuit against Nuriye Gülmen is identical in its content and appears to be a kind of conspiracy against her, as were the lawsuits against George Dimitrov, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the case against the participants in the Haymarket riot in Chicago in 1886.
Nuriye Gülmen is still in prison. The fascist AKP government is illegitimate. Nuriye Gülmen and the resistance of the workers on Yüksel Avenue are historically and politically right and legitimate.
The fascist AKP government is an enemy of the workers!
We demand that Nuriye Gulmen be released and the permanent detention imposed on her be lifted!
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