A-Infos (en) Turkey- Istanbul: Freedom for Efi Brenner and Or Ben-David! [tr]

On 30 October a group of Turkish antimilitarists gathered at the front door of Israel 
Consulate of Istanbul and declared their support to two Israeli conscientious objectors, 
Efi Brenner and Or Ben-David* who arrested last week for to object war politics of Israeli 
governments against Palestinian people. -- In the meeting that realized for the invitation 
of WRI (War Resisters’ International) a Turkish antimilitarist, Özgür Bircan also declared 
his conscientious objection. The members of LAF (Anarchist Activity Lycee), high school 
students same as Efi and Or, attended the meeting with the placards written “Reject! 
Resist! Refuse!” and “Do not go for service, do not shed your brothers’ blood”. ---- After 
reading the declaration of Shministim, Turkish antimilitarists said these briefly:

We, the Turkish antimilitarists, with the invitation of WRI, gathered
today to protest Israeli government and give our support to Israeli
conscientious objectors Efi Brenner and Or Ben-David. As you know UN
accused Israeli government and Hamas committing war crime at Gaza
recently. Israeli conscientious objectors do not want to participate
this crime. Wars are meant to be destruction for both humanity and
nature and therefore we call all human beings not to go for military
service and not to participate this crime.

Besides we want to conduct our support to all conscientious objectors
arrested or suppressed for refusing to go for military service because
of their political, moral or religious beliefs. We want Azerbaijani
objectors Mushfiq Mammedov, Sakhetmurad Annamamedov who declared will
not go for military service because they are Jehovah’s Witnesses, four
Turkmenistanian objectors, South Korean objector Jungmin Oh and
Belarusian objector Dzmitry Smyk released.

Özgür Bircan, who declared his conscientious objection in the meeting,
said these briefly:

I, Özgür Bircan, object wearing uniforms; taking and giving orders; to
be obliged to ‘learn’ using arms; applying this ‘knowledge’ if
required, on people whom I did not know and see before; and to be part
of one of the ideal citizen formatting institutions of yours.

Blood thirsty masters of this world, we are expecting you to the front
lines of wars. We, the conscientious young people of the world will
not be the participants of your bloody wars, power struggles, we
object wars and militarism. I object wars and militarism.

If we need to create heroes for ourselves, my heroes are these two
teenagers who met confinement at their early ages since they refuse to
be part of that ferocity in Palestine. They are the saints of modern
world. Our hearts are with Efi, Or and the whole people objecting to
participate wars.
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* Of the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative
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