Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
- Written by Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office.
In a crackdown that rapidly spread across civil and military services, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the closure of thousands of private schools and many...