Artists and Scholars Send a Letter to Turkish PM to Support Protesters in Turkey

'Artists and scholars, including celebrities known for their activism, such as Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Ben Kingsley and movie director David Lynch, have condemned the Turkish authorities’ heavy-handed crackdown on the Gezi Park protests in Turkey in a full-page letter published July 24 in the British broadsheet The Times and addressed to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. '

Penn, Sarandon and intellectuals condemn Gezi crackdown in letter addressed to Turkish PM

Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey