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Dismissed academic gets 10 years in prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of 10 years to an academic who had been dismissed from her job in the...
Turkey’s top court finds no rights violation in case of dismissed public servants Gülmen and Özakça
The Turkish Constitutional Court found no rights violations in the case of academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, both of whom were fired...
Dismissed academic, symbol of resistance, again arrested by Turkish court
Nuriye Gülmen, who became a symbol of resistance against the Turkish government’s authoritarian practices after going on a hunger strike for nearly a year,...
Mistreatment in police custody leaves dismissed academic Gülmen with injured leg
Nuriye Gülmen, an academic who had been dismissed from her job last year by a Turkish government decree, has said her leg was injured...
Hunger striker academic Nuriye Gülmen released
An Ankara court on Friday released academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on a hunger strike for 268 days to protest her arbitrary dismissal...
Hunger strikers Gülmen and Özakça examined at hospital upon ECtHR request
Imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have passed the 140th day of a hunger strike they launched to be able to return...
Academic hunger striker’s sister detained during protest in Ankara
Beyza Gülmen, the sister of academic Nuriye Gülmen, was detained on Monday during a protest to support jailed educators Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who...
[VIDEO] Police break man’s arm while detaining 47 protesters in Ankara
Turkish police on Sunday detained 47 people including 22 women in Ankara protesting the arrest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators...
Hunger striker says prison guards check at night to see if she’s dead or alive
Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on a hunger strike for 127 days to protest her dismissal under state of emergency decree-laws, has said...
Protesters asking for reinstatement to job given house arrest
Five protesters who are demanding reinstatement to their jobs by protesting on a street in Ankara have been sentenced to house arrest, the Diken...
Artists go on one-day hunger strike in support of hunger-striking educators
On the 120th day of a hunger strike launched by two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in...
2 educators on hunger strike ‘held responsible’ for coup attempt
A court decision to arrest two educators who had been fired from their jobs lists the date of their crime as July 15, 2016,...