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14 more academics sent to jail as Turkey’s post-coup crackdown unabated

14 more academics sent to jail as Turkey’s post-coup crackdown unabated

by TurkeyPurge | May 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

14 academics from Eskisehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ) was jailed as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Wednesday. The 14 suspects have joined the ranks of hundreds of...
Sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu under custody in post-coup crackdown

Sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu under custody in post-coup crackdown

by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Uğur Kömeçoğlu, an assistant professor at the sociology department of the government-closed Suleyman Sah University, has joined the ranks of intellectuals imprisoned in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Political scientist Umut Özkırımlı announced on...
Turkey in vicious cycle: Exodus of academics accelerating descent into autocracy

Turkey in vicious cycle: Exodus of academics accelerating descent into autocracy

by TurkeyPurge | Jan 23, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

The post-coup persecution of hundreds of thousands of government critics have led to a surge in the number of academics escaping Turkey. While many leave the country due to autocratic tendencies at home, the exodus of academics too accelerates the descent into the...
Imprisoned Turkish author says stayed on alert in fear of staged prison revolts, massacres

Imprisoned Turkish author says stayed on alert in fear of staged prison revolts, massacres

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Internationally known Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who is currently in jail, said that due to rumors of revolts in prisons she and other inmates stayed on alert for five days, in a written interview for an Italian daily. Erdoğan, who was imprisoned on charges of...
Turkey’s jailed intellectuals agree failed to see AKP’s dark side: “We regret the support we once gave to Erdoğan”

Turkey’s jailed intellectuals agree failed to see AKP’s dark side: “We regret the support we once gave to Erdoğan”

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Fundamental rights are suspended; political opponents, intellectuals are jailed; media is censored. Same old same old in Turkey. The pervasive sense of fear, apprehension and the threat to fundamental rights including the right to life in the emergency rule under the...
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