Many patriotic, revolutionary, democrat and libertarian architects, engineers and city planners have created the Free Engineers Architects City Planners Platform.

The platform was announced to the public with a press conference held at the Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO) of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB).

Yekbun Sevdalı read the statement on behalf of the newly formed Platform.

The statement said: "While the devices of exploitation and oppression of capitalism increase their violence every passing day, as engineers, architects and city planners, we have come together to claim that we can enlarge our struggle and integrate it with the social struggle."

The statement added: "This system, which incites human domination over human and human nature, seeks an exit point with chaos in every crisis period and implements economic, social, psychological crisis and war policies that lead the society to destruction .
Unfortunately, the climate crisis that threatens the future will not be overcome by the ‘behavior change' of some governments."

Engineers, architects and city planners said that their categories "unfortunately have been complicit in these destruction policies with the fact that engineering has been made to serve capital. We aim at ecological moral-political community engineering."

Reminding that "women are seen as second class in engineering", the Platform added. "As Free Engineers Architects City Planners, we foresee that the exit from this economic, social, psychological and ecological crisis in both professional and social fields can be achieved through attitudes and practices on the axis based on free women and ecological and democratic politics. We believe that one of the most important pillars of this depends on the democratic peaceful solution of the Kurdish problem, which manifests itself in many aspects of the existing problems."

The Platform ended with an appeal: "In order to protect our professional rights and living spaces in this challenging period, we invite all our colleagues to work together to make our professional organization grow and make it more functional to the pursue of a free, equal, democratic and scientific education in mother tongue."