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    Turkey’s Emergency Commission Denies Appeals from Peace Academics
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Dec 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Turkey’s Emergency Commission Denies Appeals from Peace Academics

    "We will get back our usurped rights" || Photo credit: Bianet Since 2016, thousands of Peace Academics along with journalists, political...
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    Boğaziçi University Call for Solidarity: Beginning the 2021 Academic Year Under Assault
    Bogazici University Academics
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Boğaziçi University Call for Solidarity: Beginning the 2021 Academic Year Under Assault

    As the government assault on Boğaziçi University continues to escalate, Boğaziçi faculty penned a letter printed below summarizing the...
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    Boğaziçi Campus Raided by Riot Police
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 2 min

    Boğaziçi Campus Raided by Riot Police

    The tension between the student protesters and the appointed rector of Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University continues to escalate. On...
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    Turkish Constitutional Court Ruled in Favor of Dismissed Peace Academic
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Oct 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Turkish Constitutional Court Ruled in Favor of Dismissed Peace Academic

    On September 11, 2021, Turkey’s Constitutional Court, the highest court of the country, came to a decision regarding the individual...
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    Resistance of Bogazici Students and Faculty Continues
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Resistance of Bogazici Students and Faculty Continues

    The second round of 97 Bogazici student trials on charges of resistance to law enforcement and bringing guns to a peaceful protest was...
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    The AKP Government Appointed Party Loyalist as the New President of Bogazici University
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jan 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    The AKP Government Appointed Party Loyalist as the New President of Bogazici University

    Photo Credit: Bianet Amid the escalating economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the AKP government in Turkey tightens its...
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    BİRARADA Academy: Peace Scholars Launch Exciting New Project in Turkey
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jul 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Peace Scholar Stranded in Turkey Despite Acquittal of Charges
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jul 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Peace Academic Tuna Altinel Released
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Aug 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns terrorism charges against peace academics
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jul 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Peace Academic Füsun Üstel Released from Prison
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jul 24, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Turkey Sentences Three Peace Academics to Prison
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jun 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Turkey Sentences Three Peace Academics to Prison

    The trials of Peace Academics, based on charges of terrorist propaganda, continue in the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse. On June 13, 2019,...
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    Second incarceration in a week: Peace academic Tuna Altinel arrested in Balikesir
    Dolunay Bulut
    • May 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Necmiye Alpay
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    Middle East Studies Association's Letter for Turkey's Peace Academics
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 10 min

    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...
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    NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison in Turkey
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Aug 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Four University Students Detained Over Placards Allegedly Insulting Turkey's Erdoğan
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Jul 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Nasa Scientist Researching Mission to Mars Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Turkey
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Feb 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    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...
    7 views0 comments
    ESW Stands With Academics for Peace in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Nov 25, 2017
    • 3 min

    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...
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