ANKARA - 78 Bars placed an add in a newspaper regarding the AKP proposal that will change the structure of the bar associations and the election system and said: "We invite everyone to support our struggle against the tyranny that aims to silence everyone."

 

78 Bar Associations, including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, have placed an add in a newspaper. Elazığ and Erzincan Bars were not in the add.

 

The add titled 'We don't have anything other than a republic, the state of law and eachother' continued as follows: 

 

"Despite our age, the sun, the rain and the virus, the reason we walked from all over our country to Ankara, and despite the inhuman treatment applied to us at the entrance of our capital, is a reaction against the threat of fragmentation, degradation and silencing under the name of changing the structures of the bar associations but above all it was because the citizens will be deprived of their voice and will be  left vulnerable to the limitation of their fundamental rights and freedoms."

 

The division of the bars will create a silence society dominated by the power.This text is a historical call to everyone who lives in this country, believes in the state of law and human dignity. When the bar associations, which are indispensable institutions of the republic and of course the judiciary, are destroyed under the guise of 'multiple bar associations', everyone who lives in this country and who needs justice will remain silent and forlorn. We will not surrender our professional values to be dominated by the power, that we declare to the whole country with respect and great determination and invite everyone to support our struggle against the tyranny that aims to silence everyone."

 

REACTION TO HÜRRİYET

 

Ankara Bar Association President Erinç Sağkan reacted to Hürriyet Newspaper, which did not publish the advertisement, on Twitter. Sağkan said: "This is noted. Hürriyet Newspaper took its place in history by not publishing this add. This is the point we reached in the freedom of press."