As part of an investigation linked to the 2013 nationwide demonstrations, the Turkish authorities arrested a well -known artistic agent on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, according to a judicial document seen by Reuters.

OR Aisse Barim She was arrested on Friday and eight actors were invited to give deposits to court as witnesses to her case.

In a statement to the prosecutor, Barim denied the allegations and said she had been in an area in 2013 where she was a few times individually, as an observer, to accompany people with whom she worked.

As shown by the court document, Barim denied the charges and said that did not coordinate with actorswith whom he worked nor did he ask them to support the demonstrations.

“My job as a manager is to manag the career of the actors with whom I work with and to represent them in the best possible way. These artists have their own ideas, will and decisions. I didn’t organize anything by directing their ideas ”, Barim said, according to the text of her statement.

In 2013, small demonstrations against plans to build a shopping center in Gezi Park, in the central Taksim Square of Istanbul, evolved into hundreds of thousands of people against the government across Turkey. Followed hard repression on the part of the authorities.

According to the court, Barim had an “intensive communication” with the defendants in the Gate Park trial at demonstrations. These defendants include businessman Osman Kavala, who was sentenced in April 2022 to life imprisonment without suspension.

THE Kavala was confronted with various categoriesamong which espionage, funding demonstrations for Gezi Park and involvement in 2016 in the failed coup against Erdogan’s government. She has been in prison since November 2017.

Human rights organizations say that 11 people were killed and more than 8,000 were injured in state repression. More than 3,000 were arrested.

President Tayyip Erdogan’s government claims that repression was necessary, given the threats to the state, and has called the demonstrators of “pylists” who were partially funded from abroad, an assertion denied by defendants and civil society organizations.