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NASA Scientist Returned to the US After Four Years of Imprisonment
Serkan Golge, a 40-year old NASA scientist who was arrested in Turkey shortly after the failed coup attempt in July 2016, safely returned...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 16, 20202 min read


BİRARADA Academy: Peace Scholars Launch Exciting New Project in Turkey
On June 3, 2020, a group of Peace scholars in Turkey launched BİRARADA Academy in collaboration with international and local networks of...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 7, 20202 min read


Peace Scholar Stranded in Turkey Despite Acquittal of Charges
On June 29, 2020, Tuna Altınel, mathematician at Lyon-1 University in France and a signatory to the Academics for Peace letter, informed...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 7, 20202 min read


Peace Academic Tuna Altinel Released
On May 11, 2019, Tuna Altınel, associate professor at the Lyon 1 University, was arrested in Balikesir, Turkey, due to his participation...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 1, 20191 min read


Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns terrorism charges against peace academics
On Friday, July 26, the general secretariat of Turkey’s Constitutional Court held a meeting to examine individual applications from 10...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 29, 20192 min read


Peace Academic Füsun Üstel Released from Prison
On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 24, 20192 min read


Breaking News—Turkey Frees NASA Scientist from Prison after Three Years
On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National...

Dolunay Bulut
May 29, 20192 min read


Second incarceration in a week: Peace academic Tuna Altinel arrested in Balikesir
Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the...
Dolunay Bulut
May 16, 20192 min read


Turkish Foreign Affairs protests Kurdish language classes in Japan
On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40...
Dolunay Bulut
May 13, 20192 min read


Appalling violence against students holding Pride March
On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was...
Dolunay Bulut
May 13, 20191 min read


Middle East Studies Association's Letter for Turkey's Peace Academics
H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 22, 201910 min read


Academic Behind Bars for Signing Peace Petition
Political scientist Füsun Üstel, a professor who retired from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was among the first of 1,128 scholars...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 4, 20193 min read


Turkish Court Obliges Peace Academic to Visit a Martyr's Family
The trials of Academics for Peace continues in Istanbul Heavy Penal Courts. As of February 20, 2019, 479 of 2,212 peace academics have...
Dolunay Bulut
Feb 20, 20192 min read


Three Years of Turkey's Academics for Peace in Numbers
Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to be extremely concerned about the Turkish government’s systematic targeting of the country’s...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 30, 20191 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
Nov 20, 20181 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 25, 20182 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
Oct 20, 20181 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
Sep 20, 20183 min read


Hanifi Baris to be Released from Turkish Prison
Hanifi Baris, an Aberdeen University graduate who has been in Turkish jail since July 4, 2018, was released on probation by the court on...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 18, 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 30, 20181 min read
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