Saturday, February 25, 2017

Rest in Peace dear Mehmet Fatih Traş…

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Mehmet Fatih Traş was a teaching assistant for 6 years at Çukurova University. His contract was not renewed by the university at the end of the last academic year. The very probable reason is that he was one of the signatories of the Academics’ Peace Declaration. According news in Turkish after a period of depression, he had committed suicide…

 

Turkey: authoritarianism and academic ‘closure’

 

The regime’s growing assaults on journalists, intellectuals and academics at this particular moment seem aimed at promoting self-censorship ahead of the constitutional referendum in April.

122 academics from Amsterdam University have made a call for solidarity with academics of Turkey via a statement they released.

We Will Return, Say Academics Expelled from Marmara University Faculty of Law

 
Those who were expelled from Marmara University Faculty of Law, have been bid farewell “for a while” in a demonstration with the participation of their colleagues, students and graduates.

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/2lUP2z0


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