Politicians, artists and academics are coming together in Berlin for a free and democratic Turkey. They are organising a conference to be held on 21 and 22 September. 

The conference was announced on Sunday at the Werkstatt der Kulturen and director and writer Mustafa Altıoklar read the press release.

"Come, from now on we will talk about the Turkey we want to live in together", is the call made by the organisers of the conference who are inviting everyone to join the two-days meeting to talk about social peace, equal, fair and free country.

“We are not willing to watch our country from far away as people who were forced to live in exile at some point in their lives but did not lose hope about the land we were born and the society we once lived in", said the statement.

The statement stated that differences cannot be seen as a problem but on the contrary they should be viewed as the richness they are.

"We need to come together, discuss and build our tomorrow. - added the statement - We call on all people who want to build a new future for Turkey, who dream, who want to contribute to peace, who are against war, aganst male violence, homophobia, transphobia and gender violence, to get together and act together."

The statement ended with a call to "get together to build social peace, a new Constitution which is the basis for human rights, pro-parliamentary democracy, recognizing local autonomy, based on the understanding of social state, for the people and the animal and all other living being to be in harmony with nature."

The first signatories of the conference are: 

1. Dr. MUSTAFA ALTIOKLAR (Director-Writer)

2. PROF. NEŞE ÖZGEN (Sociologist)

3. CELAL BASLANGIÇ (Journalist)

4. BARBAROS ŞANSAL  (Author, Fashion Designer)

5. LATİFE AKYÜZ (Scientist-Sociologist-FRANKFURT)

6. HATİP DİCLE (Politician)

7. DOC. NAZAN ÜSTÜNDAĞ (Peace Academic)

8. RAGIP DURAN (Journalist)

9. ASLI TELLİ (Peace Academic)

10. RAGIP ZARAKOLU (Journalist)

11. HAYKO BAĞDAT (Journalist and Author)

12. FERHAT TUNÇ (Artist)

13. DOC. Dr. ENGİN SUSTAM (Peace Academic)

14. PINAR SENOGUZ (Peace Academic)

15. PROF. SELİM ESKİZMİRLİ

16. AHMET NESİN (Journalist)

17. MUSTAFA SARISÜLÜK (Gezi Family)

18. ERK ACARER (Journalist)

19. İSMAİL ÖZEN OTTO (Athlete)

20. NAZMİ KIRIK (Filmmaker)

21. ÖNDER CAKIR (Filmmaker)

22. RUŞEN BUDAK (Trade Unionist)

MUZAFFER KAYA (Peace Academici)

24. UTKU SAYAN (Peace Academici)

25. GÖKAY AKBULUT (Member of the Bundestag)

26.SERDAR BENLI (Deputy Chairman of the Danish Socialist People's Party)

27. HAKAN TAŞ (Deputy of Berlin)

28. BERİVAN ASLAN (On behalf of the Austrian Green Party, Politician and Lawyer)

29. MEMET KILIÇ (Attorney and Former Member of the German Green Parliament)

30. IBRAHIM DOGUS (Mayor of London-Lambeth)

31. KEMAL HÜR (Journalist)

32. SAFTER CINAR (Trade Unionist)

33. NURSEL AYDOĞAN (HDP Former Member of Parliament)

34. MEHMET ALİ CANKAYA (2nd President of AABK- European Alevi Unions Confederation)

35. MUTI SUMAKOGLU (AAAF- European Arab Alevi Federation)

36. AZMİ BERBEROGLU (European Circassian Democratic Platform)

37. SAYAD TEKIN (NOR-ZARTONK Spokesman)

38. LATİFE FEGAN (Swedish Women Peace Movement Spokesperson)

39. FATOŞ GÖKSUNGUR (Co-Chair of European Democratic Kurdistan Community Congress)

40. YÜKSEL KOÇ (Co-President of European Democratic Kurdistan Community Congress)

41. A. MAHİR OFCAN (ALTERNATIVE / European Black Sea Initiative)

42. AZİZ GERGIN (ESU- European Assyrian Association)

43. TUNCAY YILMAZ (Co-Founder of the Socialist Re-Liberation Party of the CPSU)

44. BESIME KONCA TJK-E (European Women's Movement)

45. EUROPEAN HALK EVLER (People's Houses)

46. ​​IRFAN KESKIN (Turkey Green Left Party Representative)

47. METİN AYÇİÇEK (ASM (European Assembly of Exiles)

48. MEMİLİ GÜNGÖR (Dersimi Reconstruction Congress)

49. KEMAL KIRAN (FIDF-Federation of Federal Workers' Associations)

50. SOLOMON GÜRCAN (ATİK -European Turkish Workers Confederation)

51. SÜLEYMAN SEVER (Kurdische Gemeinde Stutgart e. V.)

52. AZİZ TUNÇ, (Author and Co-President of MARDEF-Federation of Maraş Democratic Associations)

53. KULTİST (Cultural Initiative Istanbul Artists Association)

54. SERHAT ÇETİNKAYA (Representative of the Communist Party of Kurdistan Workers Party)