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I’m walking from Roboski to Ankara for peace! September 5, 2012 |
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European Court: Victory for Halil Savda 12 June 2012 |
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Halil Savda on CO Day 14 May 2012 |
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Halil : Released from jail! "I went all the way to jail and back" 30 April 2012 |
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Halil writes from prison 23 March 2012 |
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Eda Ederner on Halil's Prison Conditions 21 March 2012 |
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Halil photo projected on the Galata tower in Istanbul 28 February 2012 |
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BDS Turkey (Boycott Israel) defends Halil Savda 5 March 2012 |
Conscientious Objector Savda Arrested again 24 February 2012 SIGN WRI and Amnesty petitions |
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Halil Savda sentenced to 5 months 3 March 2011 |
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CO Halil Savda & three others convicted under Art 318. 21 June 2010 |
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Conscientious objector Halil Savda says that the authorities are trying to keep public opinion in the dark about the existence of people rejecting militarism, and obstruct any public discussion of the issue. The European Union should be doing more about the issue. 16 April 2009 |
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To join the “crime” of Halil Savda… If you want to join in this act of civil disobedience, give your name, surname, address, title/job, and whose crime you join, sign the window below. After 24 hours maximum your name appears in this list. We won't publish your address/telephone number. 7 October 2008 |
| Halil Savda Is Sentenced Again For Speaking Against Military Service Halil Savda, a conscientious objector, who is in jail for supporting other conscientious objectors, is also sentenced to five months for supporting the Israeli conscientious objectors. 3 June 2008 |
| Everyone can do something for peace! Everyone can perform and organize non-violent actions in his/her city and country to make the inhuman conditions under which Savda is kept public. 24 April 2008 |
| Halil arrested again 28 March 2008 |
| Halil Savda was sentenced again! for disobeying orders 12 April 2007 |
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Halil on
trial on 12 April 2007 -
Petition
sent to the Turkish authority. See the text of the petition and first signatories 5 April 2007 |
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Press release by
the Conscientious Objection Platform The police, who were supposed to prevent the aggressors, joined them by using pepper gas against our friends and by beating them and causing some of the people from our group to get injured. 28 March 2007 |
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Model Letter to the Turkish authorities We are outraged to hear that on 29 March he will be on trial again for his refusal, and risks being sentenced to more time in jail. This cycle of arrest, detention, trial, “release”, new arrest, is against any notion of natural justice and must stop. 27 March 2007 |
| A sergeant major who was the disciplinary officer, two guardians and an officer pushed Halil to the wall face-on, kicked his legs apart and began hitting him. Having kept kicking Halil on the floor where he fell while yelling “you are a traitor, you are a terrorist,” the authorities tried to silence Halil from crying out by shoving a dirty gag in his mouth. 2 February 2007 |
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Conscientious objector Halil Savda mistreated and
on hunger strike "I refuse the psychological examination. I refuse my military duty by my conscience. I am not disabled nor sick. I dont want to be invalided out. I refuse the military duty as being a conscientious objector and for these reason i dont want to be examined by doctor" 17 January 2007 |
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Halil Savda:
report on trial
hearing of 22 December 2006 17 supporters and press representatives from Istanbul and Corlu were present at the hearing. His lawyer Suna Coskun emphasized that Savda is no soldier, but a conscientious objector 22 December 2007 |
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Message to the
demonstration supporting refusenik Halil Savda
by Payday In fact, visible refuseniks are just the tip of an immense anti-militaristic iceberg. Thousands of US, UK and other troops have deserted from Iraq and Afghanistan. Up to 500,000 have dodged conscription in Turkey 21 December 2006 |
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Action Alert:
Conscientious Objector Halil Savda in Turkish military court 22 December 20 December 2007 |
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Ankara Anarchy
Initiative Statement Halil is in the prison now, because he rejected an activity which crushes with his will and his conscience. They don't want him to be free, because he doesn't accepts to use violence, to kill people, to take a part within uniformity structure and more than that, because he knows that if not only himself but other people also reject this structure and other structures, another world is possible 18 December 2006 |
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Press release by
Conscientious Objection Platform, |
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Development concerning Halil Savda Conscientious Objector Halil Savda is put into solitary confinement! 13 December 06 |
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Conscientious objector Halil Savda arrested at his trial information and photos by conscientious objectors in Turkey 10 December 2006 |