EMSA European Board 2012 / 2013

c/o CPME

Standing Committee of European Doctors

Rue Guimard 15

1040 Brussels Belgium

Letter of Endorsement

With this letter EMSA would like to endorse fellow medical

students and other medical professionals volunteering their time and

expertise and providing medical and other assistance to those who

need it during the ongoing protests in Turkey.

We would furthermore like to declare our strong support of

such humanitarian efforts as well as of a dignified expression of

democratic rights of the people of Turkey.

It is our hope that those protests will remain peaceful and

therefore call upon all the stakeholders to refrain from any use of

force or any methods of oppression.

We believe that civil rights of expression and assembly should

not only be allowed and supported, but also nurtured with grace and

virtue. Therefore we once again applaud the peaceful protection of

civil freedoms and humanitarian actions of many who have shown it

thus far.

EMSA endorses all health-care professionals who are

struggling, often putting their own well-being at risk, to provide aid

and support for those involved in any currently on-going similar crisis.

We strongly oppose any violation of peace yet firmly stand behind

those who in the times of conflict, despite the danger involved, deliver

help and professional medical care to those in the need of such a

resource.

Kindly, EMSA European Board.

Brussels 12.06.2013