ANTALYA - Poets, writers and artists who came together to demand peace said, "The world rises on four golden pillars: Labour, justice, freedom, peace. If one of these is absent, the other three are also absent. For this we say peace."
Poets, writers and artists who came together in Antalya organised a press conference demanding "peace" for the peaceful solution of the Kurdish issue. Şükrü Erbaş made a joint statement prepared with the title "Our Call to the Public" at the press conference held in a hotel. He stated that the greatest life knowledge that humanity has learnt through thousands of years of suffering is peace: "We want to multiply not by dying but by living. We no longer want to look at the world through the unlit eyes of our dead, but through sunny windows."
Emphasising that the conflict process should end and all segments of society should live together on the basis of equality, justice, freedom and peace, Erbaş said: "The world rises on four golden pillars: Labour, justice, freedom and peace. If one of these is absent, the other three are also absent. That is why we say peace."
Erbaş called for protecting the peace process and strengthening social solidarity.
The signatories of the joint call are as follows: İlkay Akkaya, Orhan Alkaya, Abdullah Ataşçı, Şehmus Ay, Erdoğan Aydın, Burç Baysal, Cevahir Bedel, Gökçenur Ç., Abdullah Aren Çelik, Mazlum Çimen, Aydın Çubukçu, Ayşegül Devecioğlu, Şeyhmus Diken, Kubilay Döşeyen, Deniz Durukan, Şükrü Erbaş, Vecdi Erbay, Haydar Ergülen, Selman Ergün, Münip Ermiş, Kerem Fırtına, Erdal Gilgil, Sema Güler, Semih Gümüş, Erdal Güney, Hicri İzgören, Metin Karausta, Hasan Kıyafet, Jülide Kural, Akif Kurtuluş, Mustafa Orman, Altay Öktem, Oktay Özaltun, Mehmet Özer, Nazire Öztürk, Gökmen Sambur, Beşir Sevim, Suavi, Nur Sürer, Hüseyin Şahin, Ertan Taşkıran, Latife Tekin, Ahmet Telli, Mahmut Temizyürek, Mesut Varlık, Eşber Yağmurdereli.