A total nine people, including the mother of an expelled teacher, were detained by police on May 18 during a solidarity protest with dismissed teacher Semih Özakça and academic Nuriye Gülmen, who have been on hunger strike for more than 70 days.
Police attack the group which had gathered to protest the educator's expulsions after demanding that they extinguish a fire that they lit to keep warm. Police attack the group with tear gas, detaining nine people including Semih Özakça’s mother, Sultan Özakça.
Esra Özakça, Semih Özakça’s wife, was also detained by police on May 17 in Ankara.
Semih Özakça launched a hunger strike on March 10 after a months-long sit-in protest along with, Gülmen, another academic dismissed with a decree law, on Ankara’s Yüksel avenue.
