#TurkishAcademics

Apr 25, 20191 min read

Necmiye Alpay

In Brief On December 29, 2016, the renowned writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay was released from Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul, 120 days...

Turkey Releases Two Academics With Travel Ban

Dolunay Bulut

Nov 20, 20181 min read

Turkey

Turkey Releases Two Academics With Travel Ban

On November 16, 2018 Turkish authorities arrested 13 people, including two academics from Bogazici and Bilgi universities and a group of...

Turkish Prosecutor Demands 7.5 Years for 32 Peace Academics

Dolunay Bulut

Oct 25, 20182 min read

Turkey

Turkish Prosecutor Demands 7.5 Years for 32 Peace Academics

The trials of academics who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" after signing the Academics for Peace...

Turkey Reduced NASA Scientist's Sentence

Dolunay Bulut

Oct 20, 20181 min read

Turkey

Turkey Reduced NASA Scientist's Sentence

In February 2018 Serkan Golge, a NASA researcher who holds dual Turkish-American citizenship, was sentenced to seven years and six months...

Dolunay Bulut

Sep 20, 20183 min read

Turkey

Peace Academics on Trial Again

On January 10, 2016, 1,128 academics published a declaration titled “We will not be party to this crime” on behalf of the Academics for...

Rights Violations Against Peace Academics in Turkey

Dolunay Bulut

Aug 30, 20181 min read

Academic Freedom

Rights Violations Against Peace Academics in Turkey

Since the 2016 public declaration of the Peace letter that demanded an end to the Turkish state's violence against its Kurdish...

NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison in Turkey

Dolunay Bulut

Aug 17, 20181 min read

News

NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison in Turkey

Serkan Golge, a NASA researcher and an American-Turkish dual citizen of Turkish descent, was sentenced to seven and a half years in...

Erdogan Tightens Grip on Higher Education Institutions

Dolunay Bulut

Jul 22, 20181 min read

Turkey

Erdogan Tightens Grip on Higher Education Institutions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree stripping much of the country’s Council of Higher Education's (YOK) supervisory...

Dolunay Bulut

Jul 13, 20181 min read

Turkey

Academic Purge in Turkey Continues

On July 8, 2018, the Turkish state issued the 10th statutory decree since the coup attempt in July 2016, which discharged another 18,632...

Trial of Academics in Turkey—Yasemin Gülsüm Acar's Statement of Defense

Dolunay Bulut

Feb 24, 20184 min read

Turkey

Trial of Academics in Turkey—Yasemin Gülsüm Acar's Statement of Defense

We are publishing the statement of defense of Özyeğin University professor Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, who was tried at the Istanbul 32nd Heavy...

ESW Stands With Academics for Peace in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity

Dolunay Bulut

Nov 25, 20173 min read

News

ESW Stands With Academics for Peace in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity

In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace...

Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out

Ebby Abramson

Jun 29, 20176 min read

Turkey

Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out

Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...

ESW Stands with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça

Dolunay Bulut

May 12, 20171 min read

News

ESW Stands with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça

Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...

Işık University Dismisses Two Academics for Peace Signatories

Dolunay Bulut

Mar 28, 20172 min read

Turkey

Işık University Dismisses Two Academics for Peace Signatories

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

Two Turkish Academics Commit Suicide in Less than One Week

Dolunay Bulut

Mar 2, 20172 min read

Turkey

Two Turkish Academics Commit Suicide in Less than One Week

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

The Purge Continues—Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post Coup Crackdown

Dolunay Bulut

Jan 8, 20173 min read

Turkey

The Purge Continues—Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post Coup Crackdown

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

Turkish Prosecutors Seek Detentions for 103 Academics of Istanbul Yıldiz Technical University

Dolunay Bulut

Nov 21, 20163 min read

Turkey

Turkish Prosecutors Seek Detentions for 103 Academics of Istanbul Yıldiz Technical University

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

Dolunay Bulut

Nov 15, 20166 min read

Turkey

Turkey Sacks 10,000 More Civil Servants

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

Turkey's President Directly Appoints Rector to Istanbul's Bogazici University

Dolunay Bulut

Nov 14, 20163 min read

Turkey

Turkey's President Directly Appoints Rector to Istanbul's Bogazici University

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

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