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Turkey: Academics for Peace: Urgent Call for Solidarity

Post author By lefteast
Post date September 2, 2016
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Urgent Call for Solidarity! Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been removed from their positions in public higher education institutions permanently! In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace Petition. Since […]

Tags academics, Academics for Peace, censure, coup, Erdogan, Kurdish movement, Kurdish question, kurdistan, Kurds, petition, repression, turkey, violence

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Turkey: Urgent Call for Solidarity on the Closure and Storming of the Daily Özgür Gündem

Post author By lefteast
Post date August 18, 2016

On August 16, 2016, Erdoğan regime’s attack on the media and press since the July 15 abortive coup took a different turn by the closure of the daily Özgür Gündem on court orders, and the storming of its Istanbul headquarters by special operations police. The quarter-of-a-century-long history of Özgür Gündem represents all there is to […]

Tags AKP, censure, Erdogan, HDP, Kurdish movement, media, Özgür Gündem, turkey