{"id":776,"date":"2017-09-12T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/turkey-nabs-lawyers-of-hunger-striking-teachers\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:36:48","slug":"turkey-nabs-lawyers-of-hunger-striking-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/turkey-nabs-lawyers-of-hunger-striking-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey nabs lawyers of hunger-striking teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Turkey issued detention warrants for the lawyers of two hunger-striking teachers on Tuesday, days before they are due to appear in court, lawyers representing the academics said.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"80\">\n<p>\n\tNuriye Gulmen, a literature professor, and Semih Ozakca, a primary school teacher, have been on hunger strike for more than six months after they lost their jobs in a crackdown following a failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>\n\tDoctors say they have been surviving on liquids and supplements, but have described their condition as dangerously weak for several months.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAuthorities detained them in May saying they had links to the militant leftist DHKP-C group, deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe warrants were issued for 18 lawyers, all members of two law offices defending the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;The detention of our colleagues today is an attempt in vain to leave Gulmen and Ozakca defenseless,&#8221; a lawyer representing the pair told Reuters, adding that more than 2,000 lawyers had applied to defend them due to the case&#8217;s symbolic importance.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPolice raided lawyers&#8217; offices in Istanbul and Ankara and detained 10 lawyers, while the search for eight others continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>\n\tOn Thursday, Gulmen and Ozakca will appear in court for the first time since their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo far, 150,000 state employees including civil servants, academics and security personnel have been fired since last year&#8217;s coup attempt, which Erdogan blamed on followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGulen denies any involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCritics accuse the government of using the coup as a pretext to purge dissident voices from public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLast month, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a request by the two teachers to order Ankara to release them on health grounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Turkey issued detention warrants for the lawyers of two hunger-striking teachers on Tuesday, days before they are due to appear in court, lawyers representing the academics said. 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