Hey! President Erdoğan, please set Nûdem free!
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R.https://t.co/POS8i2W6vO— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 18, 2022
According to Zaman newspaper, Waters had previously addressed President Erdogan at a party, saying: “I beg you to re-evaluate the case of a young woman who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for singing in her mother tongue…Do the right thing…Please release Nedim Durak…I know.” She is not a Palestinian citizen, but a human prisoner. She must be released.”
It was pointed out that Durak was living in the Turkish “Al-Jazeera” region, and sang songs in both Turkish and her original language, Kurdish, and was subsequently accused of communicating with members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which Turkey considers a “terrorist organization”.
According to her lawyer, Nadim Durak was convicted of “belonging to an illegal organization” and sentenced without being able to provide adequate evidence in her defence. When she reported her sentence, she was allowed to bring her acoustic guitar to prison, but the instrument was damaged in a routine cell check in 2017. When it was smashed by separating its parts.