Call to “Light a candle in your window for those who lost their lives in the earthquakes”

145 writers have announced their support for the call to “Light a candle in your window for those who lost their lives in the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023.

News Center- Lawyer Eren Can, who had been waiting for his parents to be pulled out of the rubble for days after the two major earthquakes hit Maraş on February 6, 2023, called on everyone to light a candle in the window for those who lost their lives in the earthquakes.

145 writers have announced their support for the call and called on everyone to light a candle in the window for 10 days, starting today at 9:00 p.m., Istanbul time.

“Light a candle in your window… For our souls doomed to death under the rubble, for our destroyed cities, for our uprooted roses, for our silent birds, for our indescribable grief…” the writers wrote in a statement.

 

The names of the writers, who support the call, are:

•             Abdullah Yılmaz

•             Adem Dursun

•             Adnan Özyalçıner

•             Ahmet Karbeş

•             Ahmet Telli

•             Ali Erkan Güneri

•             Ali F. Bilir

•             Ali Rıza Gelirli

•             Ali Ulaş Akalın

•             Aliye Özlü

•             Arslan Sayman

•             Arzu Cura Altunbulak

•             Arzu Kök

•             Aslıhan Tüylüoğlu

•             Asuman Susam

•             Aydemir Çimen

•             Ayşegül Devecioğlu

•             Ayşen Şahin

•             Bahtiyar Kaymak

•             Bayram Sarı

•             Belgin Bıyıkoğlu

•             Bircan Çelik

•             Burhan Sönmez

•             Bülent Tekin

•             C. Hakkı Zariç

•             Cem Erdeveciler

•             Ceren Olpak

•             Cuma Duymaz

•             Çiler İlhan

•             Çoşkun Özbucak

•             Deniz Ayfer Tüzün

•             Dilruba Nuray Erenler

•             Elçin Poyrazlar

•             Emel İrtem

•             Ender İmrek

•             Ercan  Yılmaz

•             Erdal Dalgıç

•             Erdal Yıldırım

•             Erdoğan Aydın

•             Erendiz Atasü

•             Erinç Büyükaşık

•             Erkut Erdoğan

•             Ertan Mısırlı

•             Eylem Can

•             Fatma Işık

•             Ferda İzbudak Akıncı

•             Fergun Özelli

•             Gaye Boralıoğlu

•             Gonca Özmen

•             Gönül Malat

•             Gülser Han

•             Gülsüm Öz

•             Gürel Sürücü

•             Gürsel Şamlıoğlu

•             Haluk Sunat

•             Hakan İşçen

•             Hakan Tuncal

•             Hakan Yaman

•             Hasan Çoşar

•             Hasan Öztoprak

•             Hasan Ünal

•             Hasan Seyfettin Teoman

•             Hatice Meryem

•             Hatice Sönmez Kaya

•             Halil Özçelik

•             Hayrettin Geçkin

•             Hayri K. Yetik

•             Hıdır Murat Doğan

•             Hicri İzgören

•             Hüsam Kurt

•             İlyas Orak

•             Işık Demirtaş

•             İ. Uğur Toprak

•             İnci Asena

•             İpek Özbey

•             Kamber Değirmenci

•             Kamil Tekin Sürek

•             Latife Tekin

•             Levent Karataş

•             Mahmut İldoğan

•             Mehmet Ali Güner

•             Mehmet Altun

•             Mehmet Dağıstanlı

•             Mehmet Kılıç

•             Mehmet Öksüz

•             Mehmet Özceylan

•             Mehmet Öztürk

•             Mehmet Şimşek

•             Mert Özkan

•             Mukaddes Erdoğdu

•             Murat Erdin

•             Murat Tuncel

•             Musa Fırat

•             Mustafa Güçlü

•             Mustafa Köz

•             Mustafa Sezer

•             Mustafa Yelkenli

•             Müjdat Güven

•             Münire Çalışkan Tuğ

•             Nahit Kayabaşı

•             Nalan Çelik

•             Namık Kuyumcu

•             Neslihan Dağlı

•             Neval Kartalbaş

•             Nilüfer Benal

•             Nisa Leyla

•             Niyazi Zorlu

•             Nuray Gök Aksamaz

•             Nurdan Arca

•             Orhan Tüleylioğlu

•             Özcan Öztürk

•             Özer Akdemir

•             Özge Doğar

•             Pelin Yılmaz

•             Rabia Çelik Çadırcı

•             Rahime Henden

•             Rahmi Emeç

•             Rıza Aslan

•             S. Oral Uyan

•             Salih Öztürk

•             Saniye Kısakürek

•             Semih Gümüş

•             Semrin Şahin

•             Sevin Okyay

•             Seza Kutlar Aksoy

•             Sezai Sarıoğlu

•             Sırrı Özbek

•             Şafak Baba Pala

•             Şafak Kanca

•             Şebnem İşigüzel

•             Şerif Temurtaş

•             Tarık Günersel

•             Tevfik Taş

•             Tuğçe Yerdelen

•             Turan Parlak

•             Tülin Dursun

•             Türkan Elçi

•             Ünal Ersözlü

•             Vedat Yazıcı

•             Yasemin Yazıcı

•             Yaşar Erkmen

•             Yelda Karataş

•             Yeşim Ağaoğlu

•             Yusuf Gencal

•             Zafer Doruk

•             Zehra Betül Yazıcı

•             Zerrin Saral

•             Zeynep Oral

•             Zülfü Livaneli