Peace Foundation Directors held a peace watch in order to be in solidarity with the academics Esra Mungan, Muzaffer Kaya, Kıvanç Ersoy and Meral Camcı that were arrested because of signing the petition of Peace for Academics named ‘we will not be a part of this crime.’
In the Bakırköy prison where the academics were detained for a long time intellectuals, writers, NGO representatives and politicians are holding a watch. The president of the Peace Foundation Ayşe Soysal, members of board Hakan Tahmaz, Tatyos Bebek and Audit Commission member Murat Çelikkan, founder Suat Yalçın, Necmiye Alpay were in solidarity with the academics by holding a peace watch at Bakırköy prison.
Peace is the most essential value that human being reached so far. The nature and the human being have to be together in order to survive. Peace is the essence of life. The history of humanity arrived today through peaces, not wars.