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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


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
Aug 17, 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 22, 20181 min read


Four University Students Detained Over Placards Allegedly Insulting Turkey's Erdoğan
Three students of Turkey's prestigious Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara were detained for carrying placards that...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 19, 20182 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
Jul 13, 20181 min read


Petition for the Release of Professor Onur Hamzaoglu
Onur Hamzaoglu, a professor of epidemiology, member of the Academics for Peace initiative, and the cospokesperson of the Peoples'...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 17, 20181 min read


Peace Academic Büşra Ersanlı Sentenced to Prison
Since the first round of court hearings began on December 5, 2017, 242 of the over 1,000 Peace Academics have been on trial and received...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 7, 20182 min read


Turkey’s Jailed Students Need Our Attention
On March 19, 2018, a group of students from the Society for Islamic Research (BISAK) at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University opened a stand at...
Dolunay Bulut
Apr 10, 20183 min read


Turkish Court Sentences Two Academics for Peace Petition
On April 5, 2018, a Turkish court sentenced two prominent Turkish academics to fifteen months in prison on charges of “disseminating...
Dolunay Bulut
Apr 10, 20182 min read


Jailed Turkish Professor—I Got Used to Lynching
Sedat Laçiner, a renowned Turkish academic and political scientist who was arrested in the wake of a controversial military coup on July...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 28, 20182 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
Feb 24, 20184 min read


Peace Academic Arrested in Turkey
Serdar Bascetin, another member of the Academics for Peace initiative, was arrested. His social media posts were allegedly evidence of...
Dolunay Bulut
Feb 23, 20181 min read


Epidemiology Professor Arrested in Turkey for Demanding Peace
Onur Hamzaoglu, a professor of epidemiology and cospokesperson of the People's Democratic Congress (HDK), was detained with 16 others on...
Dolunay Bulut
Feb 18, 20181 min read


Nasa Scientist Researching Mission to Mars Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Turkey
It has been over eighteen months since Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent and physicist with NASA, was arrested in...

Dolunay Bulut
Feb 8, 20181 min read


Turkish Professor Visiting His Former Student Semih Özakça Suspended
On December 8, 2017, Irfan Mukul, an assistant professor at the University of Sinop, was suspended from the university for visiting his...
Dolunay Bulut
Dec 10, 20172 min read


Turkish Professor on 269-Day Hunger Strike Released from Jail
A Turkish academic on hunger strike for nearly nine months to protest her dismissal after last year’s failed coup has been released from...
Dolunay Bulut
Dec 4, 20171 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...

Dolunay Bulut
Nov 25, 20173 min read


Nuriye Gülmen is Now 37 Kg and at Point of No Return
Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 19, 20172 min read


Nasa Scientist Researching Mission to Mars Still in Prison a Year on From Failed Turkey Coup
It has been over a year since Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old United States citizen of Turkish descent and physicist with the United States...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 23, 20173 min read


Turkey Removes 7,563 More from Public Service a Day Before Failed Coup’s Anniversary
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university...

Dolunay Bulut
Jul 16, 20172 min read
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