Turkish Lawyer who has recognized the Armenian Genocide pressured by Erdogan lawyers
Lawyer and human rights activist Eren Keskin has announced that lawyers for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are seeking to ensure her removal from membership in the İstanbul Bar Association.
Writing from her Twitter account on Wednesday, Keskin said: “Lawyers of the president have made an application for my removal from the bar association. This is the point freedom of expression has reached.”
Keskin, who is a prominent human rights activist, has been working for the Human Rights Association for years and also served as its vice chairperson. Numerous cases have been launched against her, and she has been convicted many times on various charges that are politically motivated, according to the rights organizations.
In her article “ We Are All Guilty”, (The Armenian weekly- Oct.20, 2009), Eren Keskin wrote, “In my view, the only thing that should be normal is accepting the fact of the genocide, with all its consequences, and apologizing to the Armenian nation”. And about all being guilty she wrote, “It’s been 94 years!, Those who believe in the lies, Those who don’t question the lies, Those who remain silent even if they don’t believe in the lies, Those, by their silence, approve of the lies, We are all guilty. And we owe thousands millions of apologies.
For exposing and speaking out against the abuses that are happening to women in Turkish prisons, she has been repeatedly threatened, assaulted, harrassed and arrested by Turkish authorities. In 2004, Eren Keskin received the prestigous Aachen Peace Award “for her courageous efforts and activities for human rights.”
She is the author of the book “Armenian Genocide, Yesterday and Today”.