page_title: Yekta Uzunoglu
section_title: Turkey's arrest warrant in 2019
hierarchical_section_title: Yekta Uzunoglu / Turkey's arrest warrant in 2019
caption_attribution_description: Türkçe: yekta uzunoglu Vaclav Havel ile
context_page_description: Yekta Uzunoğlu, doctor, writer, human rights fighter, translator and entrepreneur.
context_section_description: In 2015 upon the request of MEP Jaromir Štětina , Vice-Chair of European Parliament Security and Defence Committee, Yekta Uzunoğlu traveled with MEP Stetina to North Syria in order to investigate the situation of the war against the ISIS. After their return from the travel Uzunoglu shared some photographs from their visit on his Twitter page which were the same photographs that MEP Stetina posted on his personal Twitter account and these photos can also be found on official EU Parliament's web page. In January 2019 Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for Dr. Uzunoglu due to these photographs on his Twitter page. In order to prevent delivery of Uzunoglu, who is also a german citizen, to Turkey; Amnesty International, Members of European Parliement, Kurdish PEN club and many Czech famous personalities warned the German and the Czech governments.
caption: Yekta Uzunoglu with Václav Have l- 2006
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