On June 3, 2020, a group of Peace scholars in Turkey launched BİRARADA Academy in collaboration with international and local networks of ...

On June 29, 2020, Tuna Altınel, mathematician at Lyon-1 University in France and a signatory to the Academics for Peace letter, informed ...

On May 11, 2019, Tuna Altınel, associate professor at the Lyon 1 University, was arrested in Balikesir, Turkey, due to his participation ...

On Friday, July 26, the general secretariat of Turkey’s Constitutional Court held a meeting to examine individual applications from 10 pe...

On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was servin...

The trials of Peace Academics, based on charges of terrorist propaganda, continue in the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse. On June 13, 2019, ...

On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National Aeronautic...

Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the relentle...

On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40 ...

On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was in...

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear ...

Political scientist Füsun Üstel, a professor who retired from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was among the first of 1,128 scholars t...

The trials of Academics for Peace continues in Istanbul Heavy Penal Courts. As of February 20, 2019, 479 of 2,212 peace academics have st...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to be extremely concerned about the Turkish government’s systematic targeting of the country’s sc...

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

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

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

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 P...

Hanifi Baris, an Aberdeen University graduate who has been in Turkish jail since July 4, 2018, was released on probation by the court on ...

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