peace academics

Changing times: Turkey’s Constitutional court rules Turkish academics were wrongfully charged with terror propaganda!

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Constitutional court rules Turkish academics were wrongfully charged with terror propaganda Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the Turkish judiciary had violated academics’ Breaking: Constitutional Court in #Turkey rules that the rights of 9 scholars were violated when they were sentenced for endorsing the #AcademicsForPeace Petition. https://t.co/bZTUB3KXps via @Reuters — Scholars At Risk (@ScholarsAtRisk) … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: “#Istanbul’s governor has banned #LGBTPride for the 5th year in a row…” #Pride2019

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17TH İSTANBUL LGBTI+ PRIDE PARADE – UPDATING: Police Attack with Shields, Pepper Gas After Pride Parade Statement Read Bianet :: English As the police did not allow the Pride Parade to be held along İstiklal Avenue in Taksim, Pride Week Committee has read out its Most of CHP municipalities celebrate Pride2019 through their social media … Read more

More peace academics sent to prison as Turkey Ranks 152nd Among 163 Countries in the Global Peace Index 2019

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TRIAL OF ACADEMICS: Academic Sentenced to 1 Year, 3 Months in Prison Bianet :: English  Academic for Peace Sezai Ozan Zeybek has been sentenced to 1 year, 3 months in prison on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The announcement of the verdict has been deferred by the İstanbul 26th Heavy Penal Court. Global Peace Index … Read more

Index on Censorship: Solidarity with Academics for Peace imprisoned in Turkey

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Solidarity with Academics for Peace imprisoned in Turkey Index on Censorship – Index – May 17, 10:21 AM “Turkey is incarcerating its academics!” This is what Tuna Altınel (Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, France) wrote to the European solidarity networks on 8 May 2019, as Füsun Üstel was taken into prison in   Can social … Read more

A substantive piece on purged academics: “Beyond the purge: How academics in Turkey are facing up to repression by reimagining education

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Beyond the purge: How academics in Turkey are facing up to repression by reimagining education Journalist Elif Ince spoke with Derya Keskin, Ulaş Bayraktar and Julia Strutz about how some academics from Turkey are responding to the crackdown in the country by re-imagining “the academy”…. Kültürhane’s library has eight thousand donated books, mostly from dismissed … Read more