İSTANBUL – The '101 Greyhaired Elders Memorandum' was supported by Germany.

 

Another support to the 101 Greyhaired Elders Memorandum' that drew attention to the situation Turkey is in, signed by politicians, artists, journalists, academics and writers, came from Germany, following the support from 404 Citizens, signing the same petition.

 

Organizations such as German PEN Center, German Journalists Association, German Journalists Union, German Book Publishers Association Institude, Germany- Turkish Culture Forum, published a memorandum calling for peace in Eastern Mediterranean and supporting 101 Grey Haired Elders.

 

Intellectuals such as veteran journalist Günther Wallraff, the German Green Party former co-chair Cem Ozdemir, Turkey-based social democrat politician Lale Akgün, a famous film director Fatih Akin, author Aslı Erdoğan, journalists Banu Guven, Ahmet Insel, Can Dundar, Celal Başlangıç, Doğan Özgüden, İnci Özgüden Tuğsavul, and novelist Regula Venske, the head of the German Pen Center were the first 30 signatories.

 

The signatories in Germany are as follows: 

 

“Taner Akçam, Lale Akgün, Doğan Akhanlı, Fatih Akın, Süleyman Ateş, Mustafa Ayrancı, Celal Başlangıç, Kemal Bozay, Anke Brunn, Angelika Claussen, Hıdır Çelik, Safter Çınar, Burak Çopur, Molla Demirel, Süleyman Demirtaş, Amke Dittert, Can Dündar, Kenan Engin, Hüseyin Erdem, Aslı Erdoğan, Çiler Fırtına, Ahmet Kerim Gültekin, Kazım Gündoğan, Nezahat Gündoğan, Ülkü Gürkan-Schneider, Banu Güven, Ahmet İnsel, Atilla Keskin, Kader Konuk, Klaus Kost, Dilek Mayatürk-Yücel, Ralf Nestmeyer, Osman Okkan, Mehmet Oturan, Alper Öktem, Nafiz Özbek, Cem Özdemir, Doğan Özgüden, İnci Özgüden-Tuğsavul, Toni Rütten, Alexander Skipis, John Steinmark, Nilüfer Tarıkahya, Kamil Taylan,  İlyas Uyar, Regula Venske, Felix von Grünberg, Günter Wallraff, Kemal Yalçın.”