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Turkish Crackdown on Dissent Muzzles Professors
Burton Bollag / 23 Mar 2016

Turkey has started a wave of criminal investigations, arrests, and dismissals of university faculty members in what appears to be the biggest crackdown on academics in decades. Last week, an Istanbul court jailed three professors on suspicion of “making terrorist propaganda.”

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