Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016,...

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

Two Turkish academics are facing months or even years in prison after being arrested for launching a hunger strike in protest of being...

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

Malaysia’s police chief confirmed the arrest of a former vice chair of a Turkish university who Ankara accuses of links to the last...

The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TÜBITAK) issued on March 24, 2017 a decree addressed to all Turkish peer...

37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) at Istanbul University have been taken into custody for attempting...

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

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

As the constitutional referendum that proposes a regime change approaches, the Turkish government continues to silence the democratic...

As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...

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

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

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

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

On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...

23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...

Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...

Arrest warrants have been issued for 44 academics from Istanbul University, 29 from Selcuk University, and 12 from Abant İzzet Baysal...