A Turkish appeals court in Amed upheld a 22,5-year prison sentence against Kurdish politician and former mayor Ayşe Gökkan in and rejected a request for her release from prison.
Freedom NOW for Ayse – and all political prisoners in Turkey
Kurdish politician Ayşe Gökkan, imprisoned in Turkey, has failed for the time being with her appeal against her sentence to more than two decades in prison.
Gökkan had been sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison on so-called terror charges by the 9th Criminal Chamber in Diyarbakır in October 2021. A regional court of appeal in Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) confirmed the verdict on Wednesday.
The sentence is made up of several sentences: twelve years for…
A Turkish appeals court in Amed upheld a 22,5-year prison sentence against Kurdish politician and former mayor Ayşe Gökkan in and rejected a request for her release from prison.
Freedom NOW for Ayse – and all political prisoners in Turkey
Kurdish politician Ayşe Gökkan, imprisoned in Turkey, has failed for the time being with her appeal against her sentence to more than two decades in prison.
Gökkan had been sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison on so-called terror charges by the 9th Criminal Chamber in Diyarbakır in October 2021. A regional court of appeal in Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) confirmed the verdict on Wednesday.
The sentence is made up of several sentences: twelve years for alleged leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), seven and a half years for alleged membership of the same organisation and three years for alleged PKK propaganda.
Ayşe Gökkan was born in the Suruç district of Urfa in 1965 and studied journalism. She has been arrested more than 80 times, and the preliminary proceedings against her were usually based on so-called terror charges.
In 2009, Gökkan was elected mayor of Mardin’s Nusaybin district with 83 percent of the vote. Most of the investigations against her occurred during her term of office. Gökkan was elected spokesperson of the Free Women’s Movement (TJA) in February 2020.
In December of that year, she was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in Mardin.
In the trial she was accused of being in a restricted military area and causing damage to property. The charge stems from an act of civil obedience in October 2013.
Ayse’s hunger strike at new Syrian border wall
At the time, Gökkan was mayor of Nusaybin and protested against the construction of a military wall with a hunger strike on the border with Syria.
It’s not the first time she’s been in jail. The last time she was in prison was in 2017 for five months. She was also taken into police custody dozens of times.
Nusaybin, May 2016,where Ayşe Gökkan was elected Mayor in 2009, a European city after a Turkish ‘peacekeeping operation’ by the Turkish Special Force butchers, as in dozens more Kurdish majority towns, while Europe turned a blind eye.. The journalist Zehra Dogan spent 20 months in jail for painting the copy of this photo above. Hundreds of journalists are still jailed. ( Zehra was a founder of JINHA, Turkey’s first women’s news agency, which was shut down in 2016 under Statutory Decree No. 675 along with 180 other media outlets.) Ayşe Gökkan, now spokeswoman of the Free Women’s Movement has now been confirmed for 22,5ears jail accused of ‘terrorism’, Sept 2021 trial. She has been arrested over 80 times already.
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