by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Füsun Üstel, a Turkish professor who signed a peace petition in 2016 to be incarcerated, turned herself in to prison authorities today to begin serving her sentence. Academics had gathered on Tuesday to bid farewell to Professor Üstel, whose 15-month prison sentence...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Saadet Sorgunlu, a Turkish actress and a retired academic, was handed down a suspended sentence of fifteen months for signing a declaration in 2016 that demanded a halt to the Turkish army’s operations in predominantly Kurdish cities. The ScholarsatRisk reported the...
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 | Sep 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A group of academics who were fired from their universities with decrees issued by the Turkish gov’t in the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt, has opened a coffee shop with a small library in the southern Turkish province of Mersin. Purge-victim...
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by TurkeyPurge | Aug 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has issued two new state of emergency decrees, known as KHKs, dismissing 922 people including 120 academics from 28 state universities across Turkey. With the dismissal of the academics, the total number of those purged since a failed coup...
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