[From 2020]
Dersim's Kurdish lawyer, Ebru Timtik has passed away...
She left in silence yesterday afternoon to a hospital room where she had been transferred from prison following the deterioration of her condition. She left the 238th day of a hunger strike in which she called for a fair trial in a country, Turkey, where fairness and justice are non existent concepts. Especially if you are a woman. Especially if you're a human rights lawyer. Especially if you don't fold your back in front of a power that would like to shut your mouth.Thus died, Ebru Timtik, of hunger and injustice. Her heart stopped simply because she had nothing to pump in a body stripped of hunger anymore. She passed away defending her right to a fair trial, after being sentenced to 13 years, with 18 other lawyers like her, held for terrorism, only for defending other persons charged with the same crime. She died like Ibrahim and Helin and Mustafa from Grup Yorum, who died after 300 days of fasting to fight the same charge.
She died fighting with her body, to the extreme, a battle that in Erdogan's Turkey is no longer possible to fight with a word, a vote, a street protest. She died like a hero, sacrificing her life for the rights of all.There is only one way to celebrate this great woman's memory: don't be silent. Make her voice reach as far away as possible, where she can't reach. There are such strong ideas capable of surviving even death. Goodbye Ebru. Long live Ebru.
