Growing Support to Behic Asci
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 While lawyer Behic Asci completes the 232nd day of his death fast action, the actions of solidarity and support for him also grow. On 15 November, the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) organised a press meeting in front of the Galatasaray High School, with a banner writing "End the Isolation, the Justice Minister, Cemil Cicek should resign". In the press meeting, ESP said the families of prisoners, intellectuals and artists went many times to Ankara in order to see the Justice Minister, Cemil Cicek. But every time the Justice Minister has refused to talk and caused new deaths with this attitude of him. The people joined in the action shouted the following slogans: "Open the three-doors and three-locks, abolish the isolation", "Long live revolutionary solidarity" and "Killer Minister, Resign". After the action, the people visited the lawyer Behic Asci.
In the evening of 16 November, the Tekstil-Sen Union, Limter-Is Union and Workers League visited Behic Asci in order to show their support.
On 15 November, German lawyer, Renate Hartmann, visited her colleague Asci on behalf of the International Committee Against Disappearances ( ICAD ). During the visit, Hartman said "We salute your resistance which you have been conducting on the attacks against the right of defence, and thank you for all of our colleagues".