Malaysia’s police chief confirmed the arrest of a former vice chair of a Turkish university who Ankara accuses of links to the last...

The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TÜBITAK) issued on March 24, 2017 a decree addressed to all Turkish peer...

37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) at Istanbul University have been taken into custody for attempting...

The government-led witch hunt targeting the peaceful opposition in Turkey has cost two more academics their jobs. On March 27, 2017, Isik...

Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home after he was fired from...

As the constitutional referendum that proposes a regime change approaches, the Turkish government continues to silence the democratic...

As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...

On January 6, 2017, the Turkish government issued three new emergency decrees that dismissed 8,390 civil servants from their positions in...

Istanbul Police detained at least 103 academics at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul on Friday and Saturday as part of the ongoing...

Under a legislative decree published on Saturday, Turkish authorities fired more than 10,000 public servants for alleged ties to the...

On November 12, 2016, Mehmed Özkan was directly appointed rector to Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University by President Recep Tayyip...

On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...

23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...

Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...

Arrest warrants have been issued for 44 academics from Istanbul University, 29 from Selcuk University, and 12 from Abant İzzet Baysal...

On August 16 a university in Azerbaijan fired 50 Turkish educators for alleged links to cleric Fethullah Gulen. Elmar Qasymov, acting...

Turkey's Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced on Friday that a number of academics and administrative staff members at public and...

Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...

On August 8, twenty professors who previously signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” were suspended from...