Turkey cracks down on dissent
January 26, 2016 | A.Kadir Yildirim

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A.Kadir Yildirim
Nonresident Fellow for the Middle EastTurkish prosecutors have launched criminal investigations into more than 1,000 academics who signed a petition imploring the government to end the violence in southeastern Turkey. This move against academia appears to be part of a systematic effort by President Recep Erdogan to gain absolute control of all public discourse and stifle legitimate dissent in any form, writes research scholar A.Kadir Yildirim.
Read “Why Turkey’s government is threatening academic freedom,” published Jan. 16, 2016, by The Washington Post.