DO NOT TOUCH MY NEIGHBOUR! Press Conference

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To press and to public,

On 10th of May, Tuesday at 6.00 in the morning, police and city police raided the homes of four Syrian families in Tarlabasi, took our neighbours with their children and babies in microbuses with tinted windows.

One day later, we learned that they were sent to a camp in Osmaniye. We have often witnessed refugees being taken from the city centers against their will to be placed in refugee camps. It is remarkable that these efforts of “sterilising” poor refugees from city centres and “cleaning the city image” coincide with the World Humanitarian Summit that will be held in Istanbul on the 23rd and 24th of May.

We invite all press members and all people who adopt our discourse of “Do not Touch My Neighbour!” to our press conference where we will talk about the conditions and reasons for pushing our neighbors out of their homes to
the refugee camp in Osmaniye. We call for an end to unlawful practices against migrants immediately and towards better living conditions for all of us.
Your attendance encourages us to continue in this struggle.

The Platform for Labour and Justice
Migrant Solidarity Kitchen
Migrant
Göçmen Dayanışma Ağı/ Ankara- Migrant Solidarity Network / Ankara
Agenda Child Association
Support to Life International Humanitarian Aid
Human Rights Association, The Commission for Child Rights
Women’s Solidarity Foundation
“Refugees, We Are, Neighbours” Solidarity Network
Our Commons
Association of Okmeydanı Social Assistance and Solidarity
Association for Supporting Tarlabaşı Community
Association of Psychologists for Social Solidarity
The Four-Legged City
Women Without Borders
Independent Animal Liberation Activists
Borderless Workshop

The press conference will be held,
On 21st of May Saturday
At 11.00 a.m.
In Human Rights Association, the Branch of Istanbul (İnsan Hakları Derneği
İstanbul Şubesi)
Address: Çukurlu Çeşme Sokak Bayman Apartmanı No: 10/1 Taksim/Istanbul