Academics for Peace - A Case Study Blog
On 26 September 2018, the Strasbourg Court communicated to Turkishgovernment three cases Telek v. Turkey (Application no. 66763/17), Şarv. Turkey (Application no. 66767/17) and Kivilcim v. Turkey(Application no. 15891/18). These three cases concern the cancellationof passports of three Academics for Peace dismissed from academicinstitutions and banned from public service under...
The court of appeal has upheld the 15-month prison sentence previously given to Prof. Dr. Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, an academic signatory to the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” prepared by Academics for Peace.
Asst. Prof. Adrien Deloro from Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu Université Pierre et Marie Curie has written an article based on his observations about the hearings of Academics for Peace. The following article covers the hearing helf before 36th Assize Court of Istanbul on January 10, 2019.
As of December 5, 2018 year has passed since the beginning of the trials of the Academics for Peace. One year ago, the trials against signatories to the petition ‘We will not be a party to this crime’ of the Academics for Peace began at the Çağlayan Courthouse in Istanbul.499 signatories...
Der Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (BdWi) fordert Außenminister Heiko Maas (SPD) zur Unterstützung von verurteilten Wissenschaftlern in der Türkei auf. Der offene Brief wurde am 07.01.2019 veröffentlicht.
Below you can find a brief summary of the current figures in relation to the trials against signatories as of January 11, 2019. (The summary is prepared by the Academics for Peace solidarity group for trials)
Prof. Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) with an account of a day spent observing political trials of academics in Turkey, as a member of a delegation from the International Society for Political Psychology.
Frontline Defenders had issued an chronique laying out an overview of the judicial processes faced by Academics for Peace. The article shows how the law in Turkey is used arbitrarily on Academics for Peace by the judiciary as a tool for political ends. Source: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/judicial-harassment-academics-peace 17 December 2018...
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuna Altınel, currently working at Universite Lyon I, shares his impressions from the ongoing trials regarding penal cases of Peace Academics. To read these observations from French click here.
Trials against academics who signed a petition by Academics for Peace continue in Istanbul Çağlayan Courthouse. Below you can find a brief summary of the current situation in relation to the trials against signatories: -The first trial initiated against four signatories who read a second press statement on March 10,...
As the trials of the peace academics reach to a new phase with an actual threat of imprisonment, the academics have started a campaign, calling jurists, political scientists and other scholars of the world for an intervention. In their call, they ask international scholars to write down their anlysis of...
In July 2018 The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, one of the prominent NGO’s in Turkey in the defense of human rights, has published a bulletin regarding the situation of Turkish academz under the conditions of the State of Emergency. Published under the scope of the project “Supporting Academics as...
The following text consists of a summary of the body of the Bill of Indictment with relevant commentaries in the footnotes. Although the penal case against the Academics for Peace petition has been filed on an individual basis regarding the signatories, each case shares a uniform Bill of Indictment [1]....
As the hearings of the peace academicans keep going on in various assize courts of Istanbul, an academician from Galatasaray University has been sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment. The court has stated the senteence will not be suspended as they have observed no expression of remorse in the statementss of...
On Friday 23th, 2018, the 36th Assize Court of İstanbul has delivered its judgments regarding thre peace academics. Three academics have been found guilty for undersigning the peace declaration and sentenced for a suspended imprisonment of 15 months. The court has decided that using th means of media is a...