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Anadolu Kültür Foundation denies having organized Gezi protests

December 28, 2018

The Anadolu Kültür Foundation, whose chairman Osman Kavala has been held in pretrial detention for over a year, has denied allegations that it was...

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Elderly professor given jail sentence for signing peace declaration

December 12, 2018

Professor Gençay Gürsoy, 79, was given a 27-month jail sentence by a high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesdayon terrorism charges resulting from signing...

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Dean dismissed for allowing İnce on campus had been threatened over visit

May 25, 2018

The dean of İstanbul University’s Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Professor Alaattin Duman, who was removed from his post several hours after Turkey’s main opposition...

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Prominent Turkish thinker Şerif Mardin dies at 90

September 6, 2017

World-famous Turkish thinker, sociologist, political scientist and academic Şerif Mardin, who was referred as the "doyen of Turkish sociology," died in İstanbul on Wednesday...

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YÖK says Boğaziçi academic fired for signing peace declaration

May 9, 2017

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has announced that Noémi Levy-Aksu, an assistant professor of history at Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University, who was dismissed from...

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Academic who signed peace declaration commits suicide after dismissal from university

February 25, 2017

Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University in the southern Turkish province of Adana, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home...