İdil Eser

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İdil Eser (born in Istanbul in 1963 ) is a Turkish human rights activist and chairwoman of Amnesty International in Turkey.

Life

Eser attended the American high school Üsküdar and initially studied for a bachelor's degree at the University of Istanbul . Eser then went to Columbia University to study in the USA , where he obtained a master's degree in the International Affairs branch. During her doctoral thesis on Russian history, Eser returned to Turkey due to family circumstances. She worked there as a freelance translator and as an employee of various NGOs and foundations. These included, for example, the TEMA Foundation in the field of environmental protection and the Helsinki Citizens Assembly in the field of human rights. On May 2, 2016, Eser became director of the Turkish Amnesty Section.

Eser is the translator of a book by Renee Prendergast, which is called Küresel Kalkınma ve Piyasa Güçleri in Turkish .

Arrest and remand

On July 5, 2017 Eser was due to alleged ties to Turkey FETÖ mentioned movement Gülen arrested. This happened during an Amnesty workshop on “Digital Security and Information Management” on the island of Büyükada . A total of ten human rights activists, including the German Amnesty International employee Peter Steudtner , were arrested. Four of those arrested were released conditionally: İlknur Üstün (Women's Coalition), Şeyhmus Özbekli (Rights Initiative), Nejat Taştan (Equal Rights Watch Association) and Nalan Erkem (Citizens' Assembly).

On July 18, 2017, six human rights activists were sentenced to pre-trial detention. The accusation is "supporting an armed terrorist organization". Taner Kılıç was previously arrested by Amnesty Turkey on the same charges. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the detainees are said to have taken part in meetings at which a continuation of the failed coup attempt in 2016 was said to have been approved. Media loyal to the government spread reports about an alleged "chaos plan" that the arrested had concocted. The pro-government newspaper Star claimed that agents from the CIA and MI6 had held several meetings on the island with the aim of organizing a riot like the Gezi protests in 2013. Other Turkish media reported evidence of links with Kurdish and left-wing groups.

After more than 100 days in custody, Eser was released on October 26, 2017, along with seven other human rights activists, including the German Peter Steudtner and the Swede Ali Gharavi . The day before, a court in Istanbul had decided to release Steudtner and Gharavi unconditionally, while the co-accused Turkish human rights defenders in the proceedings are partially released subject to conditions pending a verdict.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amnesty International. Retrieved May 16, 2018
  2. ↑ Amnesty director arrested. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 6, 2017, accessed on July 30, 2017
  3. ↑ Turkish court takes human rights defenders into custody. In: Die Zeit , July 18, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017
  4. ^ Human rights activists under general suspicion. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 19, 2017, accessed on July 30, 2017
  5. ↑ www.takvim.com
  6. ↑ Release from Turkish custody: Steudtner "incredibly grateful and relieved". In: tagesschau.de , October 26, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Eser, İdil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish human rights activist, Chair of the Amnesty Section Turkey
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul