“We are happy for Aytac, but we have lost Ebru, which is why ours is a broken joy. We will continue to let his spirit live and show his face everywhere”, said today Unsal’s wife Didem. Timtik together with Unsal and 16 other lawyers represented the interests of dissidents, who ended up in the dock for taking critical positions against the Turkish government and for this reason arrested in September 2017.
Ebru Timtik, who passed away a week ago
Ebru Timtik died a week ago in hospital, where she was transported from Silivri prison, north of Istanbul, with her condition worsening, together with Unsal. Timtik’s death commemorates the tragic end of the singer and the guitarist of the far-left musical group, Grup Yorum, who died in April and May following a hunger strike that began to seek justice in the trial that saw them accused of “propaganda in favor of a terrorist organization” and return to play in public. ‘advocate that Unsal that the musicians were under investigation for links with the far-left Red Brigades organization Dhck-p. Peter Stano, spokesman for the European Union for foreign policy, has appealed to Turkey “to seriously reconsider its relative situation human rights and the functioning of the justice system “, calling Timtik’s death” tragic “. Timtik was convicted in 2018, along with 17 others lawyers, 13 and a half years in prison, a sentence confirmed last October, before the lawyer and colleague Unsal decided in February to start a hunger strike by feeding on vitamins and liquids only.- .
