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Erdoğan’s Next Target to Muzzle: Turkey’s Academics - The Media Line

Erdoğan’s Next Target to Muzzle: Turkey’s Academics
By Nick Ashdown | The Media Line

January 31, 2016

ISTANBUL — The Turkish government’s latest target in its campaign to silence critical voices is the country’s academics.

Many of the 2,212 Turkish academics who signed a strongly-worded letter calling for peace in Turkey’s embattled southeast have been fired, detained, investigated, harassed by nationalists, and attacked by the country’s largely pro-government media.

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