Mehmet Loves Peace/ Baris

17/04/2005 | Writer: KAOS GL

Mehmet Loves Peace/ Baris* !..
Freedom for Conscientious/Total Objector Mehmet Tarhan..!.

Mehmet Tahran, a gay and a conscientious/total objector in Turkey, was taken into custody by police on April 8, 2005, in Izmir where he went to work in a book fair. He was handed over to the recruiting office and then to a gendarmarie outpost. Because he continues his disobedience, he is now being kept in a cell in a military prison.

Mehmet Tahran is a gay and an anarchist, who declared his conscientious objection on October 27, 2001 in the Ankara Human Rights Association.
Tags: human rights, military