Joint Statement of International Protest Condemning Turkey’s Arrest of Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu of the Progressive Lawyers Association (“ÇHD”)
“On July 2, 2024, Turkish authorities raided the homes of lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu in Istanbul and took the two lawyers into custody. Eminoğlu is a member of the governing council of the Istanbul branch of the Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği – the Association of Progressive Lawyers (“ÇHD”), and İncesu is a member of the ÇHD.
The ÇHD is known for having handled many of Turkey’s most difficult and politically sensitive cases and causes, including the Soma mine disaster and the high-profile Nuriye Gülmen/Semih Özakça case (representing two academics who lost their work due to a presidential decree)”.
38 organizations, including OIAD, “are deeply proud to stand in solidarity with Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu, as well as with all our beleaguered but courageous Turkish colleagues, who have selflessly dedicated themselves to the fight for democracy, human rights, justice and the rule of law.”
