Ankara accused of violating academic freedom by detaining 27 signatories of petition calling for end to ‘massacre’ of Kurdish peopleTurkey has been accused of violating academic freedom by rounding up university teachers who signed a petition denouncing military operations against Kurds in the south-east of the country. Police detained 27 academics over alleged “terrorism propaganda” after they signed a petition together with more than 1400 others calling for an end to Turkey’s “planned massacre and deportation of Kurdish people”. The US ambassador to Turkey condemned the crackdown as “chilling. Local media reported that all the group were later released.
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Source: theguardian.com