Britain Justice March Committee (Britanya Adalet Yürüyüşü Tertip Komitesi) is set to organise a partner event to the upcoming “Justice March” that will be led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in Turkey, as a similar one taking place in London.
Gathering at CHP UK’s recently opened office based in North London, the committee remarked the importance of justice and how it is needed in today’s agenda. The press release that was shared with the press follows statements as below:
“The current government of Turkey is following a routine of ignoring human rights ever since they came on power in 2002. Our newspapers are shut down, and our most trusted organisations in country have been silenced and freedom of speech is now seen as an act of crime…”
The press statement followed remarks on the need of taking action against the Turkish Government repressions by referring to the upcoming Justice March led by Turkey’s opposition party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the Republican People’s Party, or C.H.P., set out on Thursday with hundreds of supporters and journalists in what he said would be a 23-day walk between Turkey’s two largest cities.
Mr. Kilicdaroglu’s protest followed the arrest on Wednesday of Enis Berberoglu, a lawmaker from his party, a move that was seen in Turkey as a watershed moment. While a dozen lawmakers from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party had already been jailed in recent months, Mr. Berberoglu is the first from the C.H.P. — the secular party that was created by the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
