Five people are facing trial over charges of "alienating the public from the military service" on the grounds of their support for conscientious objector Enver Aydemir. Reporting on the story, the website BIANET writes that the five people "attended the hearing of Aydemir who is a detained defendant at the Eskiþehir Military Court (central Anatolia)." He is currently detained in a military prison and was exposed to torture.

The defendants include Aydemir's father Ahmet Aydemir as well as his lawyer Davut Erkan. They are tried under Article 318 of the Turkish Criminal Law (TCK).

In the indictment, Public Prosecutor Hasan Ali Aydýn based the charges of "propaganda and attending an event that alienated the public from military service" on the slogans shouted during a press release made at Aydemir's hearing on 21 January 2010.

Some of these slogans were "Conscientious objectors for peace", "Nobody is born as a soldier" or "Release Enver Aydemir".