Necmiye Alpay
In Brief On December 29, 2016, the renowned writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay was released from Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul, 120 days...
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Dolunay Bulut
Nov 20, 20181 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 25, 20182 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 20, 20181 min read
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
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 30, 20181 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 17, 20181 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 22, 20181 min read
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
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Feb 24, 20184 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 25, 20173 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20176 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
May 12, 20171 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 28, 20172 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 2, 20172 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 8, 20173 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 21, 20163 min read
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 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...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 14, 20163 min read
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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