You may have never heard the name before, but Osman Kavla is one of Turkey’s most celebrated activists and philanthropists. Osman Kavala is a person who is sensitive to international challenges and has tirelessly worked to bring people with different perspectives together in dialogue to address local and international conflicts. This dialogue both lays a foundation and charts a course for positive real-world change based on peace and human rights. His work is culturally constructive, focused on building a better future for all citizens.
Sadly, Osman was arrested in 2017 after the Turkish administration accused him of plotting a coup against Turkey’s government following an environmental demonstration in 2013. After countless petitions and motions were filed for his release, and reinstation of his most basic human rights, Osman was continuously held in pretrial detention. Osman’s incarceration was brought to the attention of the European Court of Human Rights, who ruled that the charges against Osman were both baseless and a direct breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. After this ruling, Osman was released in February of this year, however he never made it out of the prison grounds. After the ruling by leading European lawmakers, Osman was arrested again and subjected to isolation.
As you read this, Osman is approaching a grim milestone of 1,000 days in Turkish prison. During his time in isolation, Osman was given a salad that contained two snails. Despite the obvious sanitation infringement, these two “humble gastropods” brought something that Osman had been denied: company. The snails lived in the cell with Osman as he was subjected to solitary confinement. On the day of his short-lived release, Osman took the snails with him as a memory o ..
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