Diyarbakýr Bar Association has launched a signature campaign to demand the immediate release of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers who were arrested on 22 November 2011 within the scope of so-called “KCK” operations.

The signatures to be collected over internet will be sent to the Parliament, Presidency and international institutions.

Two thousand signatures have been collected in the first four days of the campaign which has been supported by many segments of the society including workers, doctors, engineers and students.

The text of the campaign with the slogan “We condemn the injustice against lawyers who defend justice” says the followings; “36 lawyers were jailed on 22 November 2011 as a result of the greatest attack in the history which targeted the right of defense and lawyers who represent the freedom of legal remedies. We regard this attack as a threat against the legal profession, the right of defense of individuals, law, lawyers and values of justice.”

Underlining that the attack against lawyers who are the assurance of citizens’ right to legal remedies, right of defense and social justice as unacceptable, the campaign text demanded the immediate release of lawyers who have been deprived of their freedoms.

The ongoing campaign of Diyarbakýr Bar Association can be reached from the following address; http://imza.diyarbakirbarosu.org.tr/index/imzala