Several students showing their solidarity with the two dismissed and imprisoned educators on hunger strike at their graduation ceremony by holding banners in the southern city of Antalya were taken into custody.
Several new graduates of Akdeniz University in the coastal city of Antalya were taken into custody following the graduation ceremony during which they held banners in solidarity with the two hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça. The students were carrying a banner on which ‘Freedom for Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça’ was written.
The police arrested several students including a student member of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) and a student of journalism. It is stated that several students were taken into custody.
The students were attacked by the police during the graduation ceremony at Akdeniz University and the pro-AKP (the ruling Justice and Development Party) media organisations had targeted the students in solidarity with the two hunger-striker educators.
Gülmen and Özakça have been on hunger strikes for over 95 days to protest their dismissal by the AKP government in a purge after last year's failed coup and they were arrested on May 23.
