The initiative for the Platform for Peace, Democracy and Freedom have made a street action on 3 April in Taksim/Istanbul in order to express its solidarity with the Radio Ozgur, whose workers are being threatened with death by the fascist gangs and with the newspaper Guncel which has been banned for two weeks recently. A banner written "The free press cannot be put in silence!" was opened at the action where the newspapers Gundem, Guncel and Azadiya Welat and the materials of the radio Ozgur were carried.
In the statement, the platform members mentioned the increasing repression against the right of the people to access to news and they protested the banning of the newspapers as well as the terror of arrest and imprisonment against DTP (Party of Democratic Society). The following words were said in the statement: "It is the same counter-guerrilla state who has bombed the newspaper Ozgur Ulke, who has murdered Musa Anter and Hrant Dink, who has launched a wave of banning and financial penalty against the socialist press and who has threatened the dissident radio workers with death". They called for solidarity with the newspaper Guncel, the radio Ozgur and the radio Anadolu'nun Sesi.
A representative from the radio Ozgur made a speech at the action. She emphasized that their activists have been being kept in prison for 6 months and she called for participation at the hearing on 13 April. Fusun Erdogan, general coordinator of the radio Ozgur, Halil Dinc, News Coordinator and Sinan Gercek, radio worker were imprisoned as a result of the state's attacks in September. Halil Dinc and Sinan Gercek will be taken to the court on 13 April.
After the action, the members of the platform visited the newspaper Guncel and the radio Ozgur.