Turkey's intellectuals come together 'to protect the Republic': We will not allow it

A petition campaign titled "We will not allow our country to be pushed off a cliff" has been launched through the initiatives of numerous republican intellectuals, journalists, and artists. 

The call text for the petition campaign, launched under the title "We will not allow our country to be pushed off a cliff," stated, "We want peace and brotherhood, as well as an independent and secular country, an egalitarian order, and a planned economy."

While all citizens are called upon to support the petition campaign, it was stated: "We want peace and brotherhood, as well as an independent and secular country, an egalitarian order, and a planned economy."

The call text for the petition campaign, initiated at the call of the Communist Party of Turkey, is as follows:

"We, the undersigned, call upon Turkey's republican accumulation to stand behind this claim:

We will not allow our country to be pushed off a cliff

We want peace and brotherhood. 

We do not want the questioning of the Republic of Turkey or the Treaty of Lausanne; the debating of our current borders; neo-Ottoman dreams, illegitimate designations such as the Turkish Empire, ummah-ism, or political structures and institutions based on ethnic and sectarian identities.

We want peace and brotherhood, as well as an independent and secular country, an egalitarian order, and a planned economy.

We will not allow our country to be pushed off a cliff."

NUMEROUS PEOPLE SIGNED 

It was stated that signatures will continue to be collected for the campaign, which has received support from many people.  

The signatories of the text are as follows:

Adnan Gerger, Journalist, Author

Ahmet Büke, Author

Ahmet Müfit Bayram, Urban Planner

Ahmet Saltık, Prof. Dr., Physician

Ahmet Sarıcan, Former Maden-İş Executive Board Member

Ahmet Yavuz, Major General (Ret.)

Ahmet Yıldız, Prof. Dr., Educational Scientist

Ali Balkız, Author

Ali Kemal Akgül, General Health-Work Union Executive Board Member

Anıl Aba, Economist, Author

Arda Kavaklıoğlu, Voice Actor

Arda Kayhan, Radiologist, Prof. Dr.

Asaf Güven Aksel, Author

Ataol Behramoğlu, Poet

Attila Aşut, Author

Atilla Özsever, Journalist

Aydemir Güler, THTM Board Member, Author

Ayhan Filazi, Faculty Member

Aykut Küçükkaya, Journalist

Aytunç Erkin, Journalist

Aziz Konukman, Prof. Dr., Economist

Barış Pehlivan, Journalist

Barış Terkoğlu, Journalist

Berkan Çetin, Actor

Beyza Acar, Academic

Burak Ustaoğlu, Former General Secretary of KESK Haber-Sen, Independent Documentary Filmmaker

Canan Kaya, Journalist

Canan Koç, Author, Union Expert

Cangül Örnek, Faculty Member

Caner Beklim, Music Producer

Caner Taşpınar, Journalist

Canol Kocagöz, Cartoonist

Cansu Fırıncı, Actor

Cemil Kılıç, Author, Theologian

Cemil Fuat Hendek, Author

Cenk Güray, Academic, Musician

Cenk Özdağ, Lawyer, Academic

Cengiz Erdinç, Journalist

Ceyhun İlsever, Dr., Faculty Member

Cihan Demirci Tansel, Professor Doctor

Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, Academic

Çağdaş Bayraktar, Journalist

Çağrı Kınıkoğlu, Director

Deniz Ezer, TÖB-SEN General President

Dengin Ceyhan, Artist

Doruk Öztürk, Actor

Emin İgüs, Musician

Emrah Maraşo, Journalist, Editor

Emre Aygen, Journalist

Ender Helvacıoğlu, Publisher

Ender Özer, Painter

Ender Yiğit, Artist

Engin Solakoğlu, Retired Diplomat

Eren Aksoyoğlu, Political Scientist

Erendiz Atasü, Retired Faculty Member, Author

Erhan Nalçacı, THTM Board Member, Faculty Member

Erinç Yeldan, Prof. Dr., Economist

Ersin Eroğlu, Journalist

Enver Aysever, Journalist, Author

Fahrettin Fidan, Journalist

Gamze Yücesan Özdemir, Prof. Dr., Lecturer

Gökalp Eren, Former President of the 68ers Foundation

Gökhan Kazbek, Journalist

Gülay Dinçel, Economist

Gülcan Altan, Musician

Günselin Seda Çetinkaya, Musician

Haluk Hepkon, Publisher

Haluk Polat, Musician

Haluk Yalvaç, Retired

Hilmi Hacaloğlu, Journalist

Hizam Hasırcı, DHTM President

Hülya Küçükaras, Engineer

Hüseyin Özel, Retired Faculty Member

Iraz Akış, Faculty Member

İnci Beşpınar, Retired Municipal Employee

İnönü Alpat, Author

İrfan Ertel, Painter

İskender Özturanlı, Journalist

İsmail Arı, Journalist

İsmail Tutoğlu, Former President of the United Public-Work Confederation

İsmail Üstün, Retired Lecturer

İsmet Orhan, Journalist, Author

Kaan Eroğuz, Editor-in-Chief of Science and Socialism Magazine

Kadir Demirel, Musician

Kaya Güvenç, Engineer

Kaya Tokmakçıoğlu, Faculty Member, Author

Kemal Okuyan, TKP General Secretary

Korkut Boratav, Prof. Dr., Economist

Latif Tiftikçi, Theater Artist

Levent Karaoğlu, Photographer

Levent Üzümcü, Theater Actor

Mahmut Şengül, General President of the United Retirees Union

Masum Gök, Journalist

Mehdi Beşpınar, Retired Unionist

Mehmet Ali Güller, Journalist

Mehmet Okuroğlu, Actor

Mehmet Şahin, Prof. Dr., Lecturer

Mehmet Somel, Faculty Member

Melih Yeşilbağ, Academic

Melike Efendioğlu, Educator

Melis Gönenç, Journalist

Merdan Yanardağ, Journalist

Mesut Odman, Author

Mete Özkurt, Faculty Member

Metin Coşkun, Artist

Muammer Ketencoğlu, Musician

Murat Akad, Representative of the Turkish Peace Committee

Murat Akgöz, Author

Murat Beşer, Music Writer

Murat Güner, Musician

Musa Ağacık, Journalist, Author

Musa Özuğurlu, Journalist, Author

Mustafa Büyüksipahi, Journalist

Mustafa Demir, Former President of Eğit-Der

Mustafa Kemal Emirel, Musician

Mustafa Kemal Erdemol, Journalist

Mustafa Kenan Aybastı, Director

Mustafa Mert Bildircin, Journalist

Mustafa Türkeş, Prof. Dr., Lecturer

Mustafa Zulkadiroğlu

Müjde Tozbey, President of the Women and Children First Association

Naci Adıgüzel, Actor, Author

Nazlı Deniz Korkmaz, Voice Actor

Necdet Saraç, Journalist

Necmi Kaymakçı, Pharmacist

Nejat Yavaşoğulları, Musician

Neslihan Özfidan, Lawyer

Neval Oğan Balkız, Jurist, Academic

Nevzat Evrim Önal, Author, Lecturer

Nevzat Süs, Theater Actor

Nihat Behram, Poet, Author

Nursel Özçelik Cengiz, Author

Oğuz Gemalmaz, President of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey

Oğuz Oyan, Prof. Dr., Economist

Olgu Ülkenciler, Painter

Orhan Aydın, Artist

Orhan Bursalı, Journalist

Orhan Gökdemir, Journalist

Osman Korkut Kanadoğlu, Constitutional Law Professor

Osman Çutsay, Author

Ozan Çoban, Musician

Ömer Faruk Eminağaoğlu, Former President of the Judges Union

Özkan Atar, General President of Birleşik Metal-İş

Özgür Aydın, Faculty Member, ÜKD President

Perihan Sarı, Retired Labor Inspector

Pınar Saraçoğlu, Journalist

Rahmi Yıldırım, Journalist

Rıfat Okçabol, Retired Faculty Member

Saadet Ülker, Retired Faculty Member

Sadık Usta, Author

Sait Munzur, Cartoonist

Seda Mit, Illustrator and Graphic Designer

Sefa Uyar, Journalist, Author

Selen Kartay, Theater Actor

Semir Arslanyürek, Author, Director

Senan Kara, Actor

Senem Doruk İnam, Responsible for Women's Solidarity Committees

Serdal Bahçe, Faculty Member

Serdar Şahinkaya, Economist, Author

Serpil Güvenç, Author

Sevra Baklacı, Director

Sinan Sönmez, Academic

Şule Aydın, Journalist

Tarık Günersel, Poet, Author

Taylan Polat Toraman, President of the Kemalist Direction Movement

Tevfik Kızgınkaya, Journalist, Author

Tuğrul Çutsay, Painter

Tuğrul Keskin, Poet

Tuna Pektaş, Curator

Turgay Develi, Journalist, Former MP

Uğurhan Akyüz, Faculty Member

Ulaş Can, Journalist

Ulaş Özer, Academic, Musician

Ulvi Oğuz 

Ümit Aslanbay, Journalist, Author

Volkan Algan, Author

Yalçın Özkütük, Rear Admiral (Ret.) 

Yael Taranto, Economist

Yıldıray Ozan, Faculty Member

Yiğit Günay, Journalist 

Yücel Çiftçi, Author

Zeynep Suda, Faculty Member 

Zuhal Okuyan, Faculty Member 

Zülal Kalkandelen, Journalist

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