Arrested yesterday, Ayşegül Tözeren sent a birthday message via her lawyers: Since what is deemed fitting for me is a six-foot closed cell, take a good long look at the sky for me.
Evrensel Columnist, Literary Critic Ayşegül Tözeren, sent a message via her lawyers from the cell in which she is being held under arrest. Noting that it was her birthday, Doctor Ayşegül Tözeren said that she had served medicine for fifteen years and had probably served literature for more than this and called for solidarity.
Arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning (20 August) at around 1.45, Ayşegül Tözeren was denied a meeting with her lawyers due to a restriction order. Despite an application by lawyers, the prosecutor did not lift the order next morning. At a later stage, attorneys Mustafa Söğütlü and Erdal Doğan, who went to Istanbul Police Headquarters where Tözeren is being held, were kept waiting for an hour and then permitted a five-minute meeting on the grounds that they were not civil servants.
BIRTHDAY MESSAGE FROM AYŞEGÜL TÖZEREN
Noting that it was her birthday, Ayşegül Tözeren sent the following message to her friends via her lawyers:
“Today is my birthday. I have served medicine for more than fifteen years. I have probably tried to contribute to Turkish literature for more than that. I have always believed in producing in solidarity and togetherness.
Yes, today is my birthday. My sole wish of my friends and acquaintances is, since what is deemed fitting for me is a six-foot closed cell, take a good long look at the sky for me.”
HER FRIENDS WILL MEET IN YOĞURTÇU PARK
Ayşegül Tözeren's friends will celebrate Tözeren's entry into a new year today at 8 pm. (EVRENSEL DAILY)
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