If you want to know more about what happened last night (who is probably not the last one if we believe the situation of this morning; the main streets of the city center are still occupied by numerous demonstrators) and what is going on, here are new...
In the huge Silivri prison complex, 80 kilometers from Istanbul, a verdict will be made today in one of two state trials that the Turkish government is pursuing against the democratic intellectuals who are facing charges under the guise of counter-terrorism....
Invitation to Press Meeting INTERNATIONAL WORKGROUP ON ACADEMIC LIBERTY AND FREEDOM OF RESEARCH IN TURKEY Dear member of the press, As you might know KCK lawsuit hearings will commence on July 2nd 2012 in Silivri. We, as members of the academia, would...
Yurtdışındaki akademisyenlerden demokrasiye çağrı bildirisi / Academics call for democracy “As academics concerned with the recent developments in Turkey, we stand in solidarity with the people peacefully protesting to protect Gezi Park in Taksim, and...
GIT-North America's exclusive interview with young academics in Turkey: GIT - North America interviewed the young academics who penned the petition criticizing the Turkish Prime Minister's attempt at socio-religious engineering. To read the interview,...
The International Workgroup on Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey (GITTurkey) GITTurkey , which was established in the wake of the arrest of Prof. Büşra Ersanlı and which aims to fight pressures and restrictions academics and researchers...
GIT-UK Branch was established following our first meeting on 15 December 2011. If you live in the UK and would like to take part in the activities of the group, please contact any of the following members: Dr. Cengiz Gunes (cgunes07@gmail.com); Dr. Derya...
January 15, 2012 : Updated Third list of signatures for the GIT’s Inaugural Declaration (November 21, 2011) Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey A new list will be published February 15, 2012 Dr. Ali Akay (Professor, Mimar Sinan University...
KOMXEBATA NAVNETEWEYÎ: “SERBESTIYA AKADEMÎK Û AZADIYA LÊKOLÎNÊ LI TIRKIYEYÊ” (GROUPE INTERNATIONAL DE TRAVAIL - “GIT”) 21ê çiriya paşîn, 2011 Rewşeke hesas bo serbestiya akademîk û azadiya lêkolînê Ji sala 2009an ve, zextên dewletê yên ji bo tepeserkirinê...
LETTER OF INFORMATION FROM THE GITFRANCE, DECEMBER 24, 2011 Governmental measures of repression and attacks against academic research, teaching, translation and publication in Turkey have intensified since 2009. They have reached an alarming climax with...
Workshop: "Research on Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey" organized by GIT France www.gitfrance.fr Dates of the workshops, held at EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris: January 27, 5-7 pm, amphithéâtre ; February 3, 5-7 pm, amphithéâtre;...
· Comment is free · liberty central Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but · By Ayça Çubukçu ( Ayca Çubukçu teaches at Harvard University as a lecturer on social studies. She holds a PhD....
Gruppo internazionale di lavoro : «Libertà di ricerca e d’insegnamento in Turchia» Una situazione critica per la libertà di ricerca e d’insegnamento Le misure di repressione governativa e gli attacchi portati alla ricerca e all’insegnamento universitario...
Call To Unite For Academic Freedoms GITTürkiye International Work Group for Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey At a time when Turkey must come to term with and generate new solutions for the fundamental issues that plague its social and...
FEBRUARY 1, 2012, 12:14 PM Paul Auster Responds After Turkish Prime Minister Calls Him ‘an Ignorant Man’ By DAVE ITZKOFF Todd Heisler/The New York Times Paul Auster The publication in Turkey of a new work by Paul Auster — even before it is released in...
September 26, 2012 We have decided to submit a new appeal to the Norwegian Nobel Committee (Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo) in favor of nominating the independent publisher and pro-democracy intellectual Ragıp Zarakolu of Turkey as a candidate for the...
Monday, December 24, 2012 http://gitamerica.blogspot.fr/2012/12/git-north-america-statement-on-recent.html As scholars and students from Turkey as well as academics working on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in North America we are deeply concerned by the...
The co-founders of GIT Initiative (International Work Group for “Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research”) welcome the creation of GITTürkiye and their website http://gitturkiye.com/ both of which are indebted to Professor Dr. Cengiz Cağla. We send our...
Prominent International Weekly Journal of Sciences Nature posted an article by Dr. Alison Abbott : “ Turkey cracks down on academic freedom” http://www.nature.com/news/turkey-cracks-down-on-academic-freedom-1.10942 In Paris, Le Monde published an appeal...
International Work Group "Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey"/GIT’s Press Release Regarding Cihan Kırmızıgül Cihan Kırmızıgül, an engineering student at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, has been imprisoned in a high security detention...
Today, following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's extremely sectarian, separatist, and fictious speech in Ankara, around 9 PM, the Turkish police began to attack thousands of people who were at the Gezi Park and Taksim square, having dinner....
February 15, 2012 Dear Colleagues, Please find below the list for February 15, 2012, which includes new signatures of the Inaugural Declaration for the International Work Group (GIT) "Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey," including GIT...
GITINITIATIVE 2011/11/21 _____________________________________________________________________ Groupe International de Travail (“GIT”) / International Work Group: “Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey” A Critical Situation for Academic Liberty...
This evening, June 11, 2013, GIT members, presently at Gezi Park, are witnessing the massive use of tear gas against the occupants, sitting peacefully under the trees. They are informing us that there are many wounded after this very strong police intervention...
Petition and “support night” event in Ankara, February 25 at 7 p.m . A petition and a support event are being organized as part of the continued efforts to free the imprisoned author and publisher Ragip Zarakolu, as well as his son. “Their indefinite...
