by TurkeyPurge | Nov 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Cenk Yiğiter, a Turkish academic who was expelled from Ankara University after the 2016 failed coup attempt, was taken into custody on Friday at his Ankara home on suspicion of terrorism, the Gazete Duvar news website reported. According to his lawyer, the prosecutor...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study at the communication faculty of the same university despite passing the entrance examination. Ankara University added...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 31, 2017 | Human Tragedies
A former research assistant at Ankara University’s faculty of law, Cenk Yiğiter, found a way to get around a post-coup witch hunt, as he took a nationwide university entrance exam in order to get back to the grind. Yiğiter was sacked by a government decree along with...
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