WMA: We fully support our colleagues’ statement

2018-01-30 13:29:28


	 

	NEWS CENTER - The World Medical Association (WMA) has released a written statement and says “The WMA fully supports our Turkish colleagues in their public statements that war is a public health problem.”

	 

	Administrators have been detained in the raid conducted on their homes after being targeted by AKP Leader saying “Terrorist lovers” and the criminal complaint filed against them by Interior Ministry. The World Medical Association (WMA) has released a written statement on the detention of the association’s administrators.

	 

	The statement says, “The WMA fully supports our Turkish colleagues in their public statements that war is a public health problem. The WMA has clear policy that physicians and national medical associations should alert governments to the human consequence of warfare and armed conflicts. The Turkish Medical Association has a duty to support human rights and peace and we are alarmed about the latest arrests and the criminal complaint. We strongly denounce these attacks on freedom of expression, which is enshrined in article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that Turkey ratified in 2003. We call on the Turkish authorities to immediately release the physician leaders and to end the campaign of intimidation. We urge national medical associations around the world to advocate for the full respect of Turkey’s humanitarian and human rights obligations, including the right to health, freedom of association and expression.”

	 

	Istanbul Medical Chamber will hold a press conference concerning the detentions at meeting room of the Istanbul Medical Chamber building today at 5:30 pm.