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Hello Everyone<br>
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Below is a recent bulletin re: Academics for Peace and the court
hearings that Turkish academics are facing this month. You can also
find more information at the link below. <br>
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The York University Faculty Association is starting a solidarity
committee on this theme and it will be meeting in the coming days. I
will post information about key developments. <br>
<br>
Cynthia<br>
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class="">Call for Solidarity Actions for
Academics for Peace from Turkey</b></font></font>
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class="" align="justify"> <font class=""
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class="">The first court hearings start on
December 5, 2017, at 9:00 am in İstanbul
Çağlayan Courthouse </b></font><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">As
signatories to the Peace Petition of 11
January 2016, we have experienced continuous
repression since we called for peace in
Turkey in our declaration titled “We Will
Not Be A Party To This Crime.”</span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"
class="">So far, more than 500 of our
colleagues have been separated from their
universities and their students through
dismissals, firing, and forced retirement.
Four of our colleagues were detained for
weeks.</span></div>
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100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"
class="">Today, as the trials of the
signatories of the Academics for Peace
Declaration is about to begin, we need your
support more than ever. Signatories of the
call for peace are accused of “making
propaganda for a terrorist organisation”!
The charge is punishable with imprisonment
of up to 7 years 6 months under Article 7/2
of the Turkish Anti-Terror Law. This is a
major threat not only to our colleagues but
also to all who care about freedom of
expression and academic freedom.</span></div>
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100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"
class="">As of November 15, 2017, only one
tenth of the Academics for Peace signatories
have been summoned. The first set of trials,
with 10 minutes per individual case, will
extend from December 2017 to April 2018.</span></div>
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100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
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class="">The trials to begin in Istanbul
Criminal Court involve Academics for Peace
signatories from İstanbul University and
Galatasaray University. They will be
followed by signatories from Marmara
University, Yıldız Technical University,
Istanbul Technical University, Özyeğin
University and Kemerburgaz University. It is
not clear who / from which university will
be added to this chain.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"
class="">The trials are based on the same
‘copy and paste’ bill of indictment, but on
an individual basis. The individual cases
will be tried by different Criminal Courts,
on different dates and in 10-minute
intervals. The aim is to prevent the
signatories from standing together and
pursuing collective defence strategies
against the same charge they all face.</span></div>
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100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
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class="">So far, the support we have
received from members of universities and
the general public in Turkey and beyond has
been an invaluable source of hope and
strength for us. Your support during this
new turn of events is more important and
vital than ever. What is on trial in Turkey
now is not only the individual academics who
signed the Academics for Peace Declaration
but the very concept of academic freedom and
its defenders all over the world. </span><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">We call on
you to stand up and stand by us in the
courts starting from December 5, 2017. To do
this, please send monitoring teams and
observers to Turkey, raise awareness of the
show trials, and call on Turkish authorities
and the authorities in your countries to
stop the witch hunt against academics and
academic freedom in Turkey.</span></div>
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100%;" class=""><span style="font-family:
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class="">As citizens of this country we
remain committed to peace, justice and the
right to life. We also remain committed to
fight against all kinds of rights violations
and injustices.</span></div>
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will continue to do so with your ever
growing solidarity.</font></font></p>
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class="" align="justify"> <b class=""><font
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style="font-size:11pt" class="" size="2">@barisakademik</font></font></b></p>
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style="font-size:11pt" class="" size="2">fb/barisicinakademisyenler/</font></font></b></p>
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class="" align="justify"> <b class=""><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="http://www.barisicinakademisyenler.net/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
class="" face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size:11pt" class=""
size="2">www.barisicinakademisyenler.ne<wbr
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class=""> <b class=""><font class=""
face="Times New Roman, serif">contact: <a
onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="mailto:bakuluslararasi@gmail.com"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">bakuluslararasi@gmail.com</a></font></b></p>
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<div class=""><b class="">Call for international
solidarity in <a onclick="return
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href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gPdf7RH2rJXX2n-3uqAeTgeDNW0HhDYN"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">four
different languages </a></b><b class=""><a
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gPdf7RH2rJXX2n-3uqAeTgeDNW0HhDYN"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><b class="">(English,
French, German, Turkish)</b></a> </b></div>
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href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=12RSxm3Rw08-_wQxqadTfg7_bpd8MsJTi"
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the indictment</a><br class="">
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<b class=""><a onclick="return
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href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lH7Ubwe-x6OdcbkiJQcUvp1DuSutR0Uu"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Rights
violations against Academics for Peace</a></b></div>
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class="">Website for documenting and
contextualizing the instrumentalization of the law
in Turkey: <span class=""> </span></span><b
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checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="http://afp.hypotheses.org/"
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