{"id":1381,"date":"2023-04-26T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:20:50","slug":"press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Wave of arrests in Turkey<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Police raids took place in several cities today. More than 150 people, among them numerous journalists, lawyers and politicians were arrested. This marks a new and worrying stage in the election campaign, showing that Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s AKP-MHP coalition is using all means to stay in power. Especially the Kurdish and the democratic electorate are the focus of the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precisely these circles &#8211; the Green Left alliance with the HDP &#8211; are decisive for the outcome of the elections and thus also for the imperative need to vote out President Erdo\u011fan and his AKP-MHP coalition.<br>These repressions are unacceptable and require a clear response from the European Union and the European institutions. The Council of Europe, which will accompany the elections with a 40-member delegation led by Social Democrat Frank Schwabe, must take the above aspects into account.<br>The EUTCC calls on the Council of Europe and the European Union to take a position without delay. The Council of Europe must adapt its plans for election observation accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dr. Kariane WestrheimEUTCC Chairperson<br>Dersim Da\u011fdevirenEUTCC Board member<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EU Turkey Civic Commission<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eutcc.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.eutcc.net<\/a><br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of arrests in Turkey Police raids took place in several cities today. More than 150 people, among them numerous journalists, lawyers and politicians were arrested. This marks a new and worrying stage in the election campaign, showing that Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}