Eylem Tuncaelli
{{Short description|Turkish political activist}}
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Eylem Tuncaelli is a Turkish political activist and co-chair and spokesperson for the Green Left Party.{{cite web|url=https://europeangreens.eu/content/turkish-green-co-chairs-eylem%C2%A0tuncaelli-and-naci-s%C3%B6nmez-are-released|title=Turkish Green co-chairs Eylem Tuncaelli and Naci Sönmez are released|website=European Greens|access-date=2022-02-25|archive-date=2023-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230624172616/https://europeangreens.eu/content/turkish-green-co-chairs-eylem%C2%A0tuncaelli-and-naci-s%C3%B6nmez-are-released|url-status=dead}}
She was also a former Chairperson of the Istanbul Branch of the Chamber of Environmental Engineering.{{cite web|url=https://europeangreens.eu/news/stop-leaders-turkish-green-party-being-jailed-under-false-charges|title=Stop the leaders of the Turkish Green Party from being jailed under false charges|website=European Greens|access-date=2022-02-25|archive-date=2023-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523070020/https://europeangreens.eu/news/stop-leaders-turkish-green-party-being-jailed-under-false-charges|url-status=dead}}
Biography
She was born in 1975 in Istanbul. She graduated from Trakya University in the field of Environmental Engineering in 1999 and in 2000 joined the TMMOB (Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects). Between 2004 and 2010, she joined as president of the Istanbul Branch of the Chamber of Environmental Engineering, becoming an active member. In 2012, along with others like Naci Sonmez, she founded the Green Left Party.
= Prison =
On February 9, 2018, she and 10 other party members were arrested at 6 am,{{cite web|url=https://www.skakeller.de/artikel/immediate-release-of-turkish-greenleft-co-chairs-eylem-tuncaelli-and-naci-sonmez|title=Immediate release of Turkish Green/Left Co-Chairs Eylem Tuncaelli and Naci Sonmez! - Ska Keller, MdEP|website=skakeller.de|date=9 February 2018 |access-date=2022-02-25}}{{cite web|url=https://yesilgazete.org/green-gazette-weekly-turkey-digest-arrests-nukes-and-banned-childrens-play/|title=[Green Gazette weekly Turkey digest:] Arrests, Nukes, and banned children's play - Yeşil Gazete|website=yesilgazete.org|date=13 February 2018 |access-date=2022-02-25}} accused of "generating enmity among the population" and "propaganda for a terrorist organization". The detainees were against Turkish military action in Syria. In the same year, they were released, but their passports were confiscated, preventing them from traveling to other countries.{{cite web|url=https://bianet.org/bianet/insan-haklari/202885-yesil-sol-parti-es-sozculerinin-pasaportlarina-el-konuldu|title=Yeşil Sol Parti Eş Sözcülerinin Pasaportlarına El Konuldu|website=bianet|access-date=2022-02-25}}
Political activism
Like the Green Left Party, it is left-liberal and is environmentalist, anti-neoliberal,{{cite web|url=https://sendika.org/2007/11/ziraat-muhendisleri-odasindan-su-sorunu-kuraklik-ve-sektorel-etkisi-paneli-16861/|title=Ziraat Mühendisleri Odasından Su Sorunu, Kuraklık ve Sektörel Etkisi" Paneli|website=Sendika.Org|date=21 November 2007 |access-date=2022-02-25}} pacifist, anti-capitalist, and anti-industrialist.{{cite web|url=https://www.europeaninterest.eu/article/interview-eylem-tuncaelli-case-united-opposition-turkey/|website=europeaninterest.eu|title=Interview with Eylem Tuncaelli: The case for a united opposition in Turkey|date=26 October 2018 |access-date=2022-02-25}}{{cite web|url=https://yesilsolparti.org/eylem-tuncaelli-yesil-sol-parti-5-yasinda/|author=Fırat Şarkı|title=Eylem Tuncaelli : Yeşil Sol Parti 5 Yaşında - Yeşil Sol Parti|website=yesilsolparti.org|date=24 November 2017 |access-date=2022-02-25}} She is against water privatization, she is also in favor of identity rights movements (feminism, anti-racism, LGBT rights among others), anti-nuclear movement, labor rights and animal rights.{{cite web|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/cevre-muhendisleri-su-ve-su-hizmetleri-ozellestirilemez-6997329|title=Çevre mühendisleri: Su ve su hizmetleri özelleştirilemez - Son Dakika Flaş Haberler|website=hurriyet.com.tr|date=31 July 2007 |access-date=2022-02-25}}
See also
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