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Ebby Abramson
Jul 23, 20173 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...


Dolunay Bulut
Jul 7, 20172 min read
Turkey Suspends 12 More Academics for Signing Peace Declaration
Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016,...


Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20176 min read
Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out
Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...


Dolunay Bulut
May 31, 20172 min read
Turkey Jails Academics on Hunger Strike Over Losing Their Jobs in Post-Coup Purge
Two Turkish academics are facing months or even years in prison after being arrested for launching a hunger strike in protest of being...


Dolunay Bulut
May 12, 20171 min read
ESW Stands with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça
Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...


Ebby Abramson
Apr 24, 20173 min read
TÜBİTAK—Scientific Body or Political Tool?
The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TÜBITAK) issued on March 24, 2017 a decree addressed to all Turkish peer...


Dolunay Bulut
Mar 30, 20171 min read
37 Students Detained at Istanbul University While Commemorating Kızıldere Massacre
37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) at Istanbul University have been taken into custody for attempting...


Dolunay Bulut
Mar 28, 20172 min read
Işık University Dismisses Two Academics for Peace Signatories
The government-led witch hunt targeting the peaceful opposition in Turkey has cost two more academics their jobs. On March 27, 2017, Isik...


Dolunay Bulut
Mar 2, 20172 min read
Two Turkish Academics Commit Suicide in Less than One Week
Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home after he was fired from...


Dolunay Bulut
Jan 8, 20173 min read
The Purge Continues—Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post Coup Crackdown
On January 6, 2017, the Turkish government issued three new emergency decrees that dismissed 8,390 civil servants from their positions in...


Dolunay Bulut
Nov 21, 20163 min read
Turkish Prosecutors Seek Detentions for 103 Academics of Istanbul Yıldiz Technical University
Istanbul Police detained at least 103 academics at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul on Friday and Saturday as part of the ongoing...

Dolunay Bulut
Nov 15, 20166 min read
Turkey Sacks 10,000 More Civil Servants
Under a legislative decree published on Saturday, Turkish authorities fired more than 10,000 public servants for alleged ties to the...


Dolunay Bulut
Nov 14, 20163 min read
Turkey's President Directly Appoints Rector to Istanbul's Bogazici University
On November 12, 2016, Mehmed Özkan was directly appointed rector to Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University by President Recep Tayyip...


Dolunay Bulut
Oct 8, 20162 min read
The Purge Continues—Turkey Detains Another 23 Academics Over Use of "Suspected" Mobile App
23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...


Ebby Abramson
Sep 24, 20162 min read
Turkish Professor Mehmet Altan was Charged With "Attempting to Remove the Government"
Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...


Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20162 min read
ESW Stands with "Academics For Peace" in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...


Ebby Abramson
Aug 19, 20162 min read
Turkey Issues Arrest Warrants for 85 University Academics Nationwide
Arrest warrants have been issued for 44 academics from Istanbul University, 29 from Selcuk University, and 12 from Abant İzzet Baysal...


Ebby Abramson
Aug 17, 20162 min read
5,342 Turkish Academics and Administrators Suspended
Turkey's Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced on Friday that a number of academics and administrative staff members at public and...


Ebby Abramson
Aug 16, 20162 min read
US Citizen and NASA Scientist Detained in Turkey in the Aftermath of Failed Coup
Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...

Dolunay Bulut
Aug 9, 20162 min read
The Purge Continues in Turkey—20 Professors and Lecturers Suspended from Anadolu University
On August 8, twenty professors who previously signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” were suspended from...
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