by TurkeyPurge | May 19, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A political scientist from Turkey’s Sakarya University has allegedly been investigated by Turkish authorities over a book he wrote on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 2017. According to tweets posted by the academic himself, he was also denied professor...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 4, 2017 | Human Tragedies
Under arrest for 13 months over links to the Gulen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, an associate professor at Sakarya University’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science until he was dismissed, has been diagnosed with cancer in his liver and intestines. Özcerit was...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Seven academics who were earlier dismissed from Sakarya University as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement were arrested over their use of ByLock mobile application. The suspects are accused of using the ByLock smart phone application, which according to...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Torture
Under arrest as part of an investigation into a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, a Turkish professor has been rendered incapable of even counting right amount of money to pay for a bottle of water at the prison canteen as a result of days of harsh treatment. Merve...
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