Thursday, February 23, 2017

Sacked Turkish academics take protest to the streets

Sacked Turkish academics take protest to the streets
[AFP]
Raziye Akkoc and Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi
AFPFebruary 22, 2017

Ankara (AFP) - In the heart of Ankara, Turkish communications lecturer Sevilay Celenk gives a lecture to dozens of attentive students.

But her lecture is not taking place on a campus, or even in a hall, but at a park, where the crowd has braced the bitter cold to hear her.

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