Turkey reverses course, releases some academics imprisoned on dubious charges
by Eugene Chudnovsky
| July 29, 2019 10:02 AM
The pendulum of Turkish justice that has been crashing academics for their real and invented political dissent since 2016 has swung back. On July 26, the Turkish Constitutional Court, in a stunning reversal, ruled that sentences given to ten Academics for Peace who protested a massacre of Kurdish civilians by the Turkish army violated their freedom of expression.
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