Some 2,500 academics worldwide have signed a petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal, a PhD candidate and researcher at Carleton University in Canada and an LGBT activist, who was detained in Istanbul on Sept. 25.
Famed scholars Enzo Traverso, Judith Butler, Etienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Silvia Federici, Toni Negri and Wendy Brown are among the names who signed the petition titled “#FreeCihanErdal.”
The Washington Post – Editorial Board – Oct 15, 10:49 AM
WHEN TURKEY’S Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to power in the early 2000s, he cast himself as the leader of a model Muslim democracy whose top priority was membership in the European Union. Slowly but relentlessly, he has evolved into a swaggering
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