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Letter Concerning Attacks Against Faculty Who Did Not Support Re-election of the University Rector in Turkey
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[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] 8 May 2013 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Office of the Prime Minister Başbakanlık 06573 Ankara, Turkey Dear Prime Minister Erdoğan: I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom regarding troubling incidents at Kilis 7 Aralık University (K7AU). Beginning with the contested re-election of the university rector, Dr. Ismail Güvenç, and his administration on August 14, 2012, a number of incidents at K7AU have targeted individual members of the faculty in ...
Keep Reading »Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 30 April 2013.] Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey Executive Summary Turkey has struggled to find the right response to the Syrian civil war, which has brought shellfire, bombs, militias, refugees, sectarian tensions, and uncertainty to its southern border. It has so far generously welcomed at least 300,000 Syrians. But this number could triple this year and prove unsustainable, with Turkey and the international community slow to work together, the Syrian conflict in a stalemate, and Syria tu
Keep Reading »Turkey: Decriminalize Dissent
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[The following report was issued by Amnesty International in March 2013.] Decriminalize Dissent: Time to Deliver on the Right to Freedom of Expression Introduction Freedom of expression is under attack in Turkey. Hundreds of abusive criminal prosecutions are brought every year against political activists, human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others. These prosecutions represent one of the most deeply entrenched human rights problems in Turkey today. Such cases are generally instigated against individuals who criticize the state or who express opinions contrary to official positions on sensitive issues. While there has been ...
Keep Reading »Call for Applicants: Reporting Energy and Finance in Europe's Neighborhood (9 May, Istanbul)
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Reporting Energy and Finance in Europe's Neighborhood 9 May 2013, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Istanbul, Turkey Organised by Bankwatch Network, this workshop aims to familiarise reporters from European Neighbourhood countries with issues related to reporting energy and energy markets, particularly with a focus on European public and private investors in the Neighbourhood region. Specific attention will be given to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its role in energy finance. Following a one day workshop, participants will be accredited to attend the EBRD Annual Meetings and Business Forum in Istanbul. The workshop will be held ...
Keep Reading »روايات موسيقية من اسطنبول
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[تنشر هذه المقالة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين "جدلية" و"معازف" ] Politiki Mousiki* روايات موسيقية من اسطنبول "ya khabibi ya lelelli" آخر الأخبار الفنية الواردة عن فرق النفخ البلقانية تؤكد أن “الفتاة المصرية” (“مصرلو” بالتركية) ما زالت تحافظ على شعبيتها الأكيدة وحضورها الراسخ في مهرجانات الشارع. عام 1994، استعاد تارانتينو في 'بالب فيكشن' لحناً صنع أمجاد عازف الغيتار الأميركي ديك دايل الذي حوّل "مصرلو" إلى أيقونة ما عرف في الستينيّات بروك الركمجة (Surf Rock). دايل (1937) ،المنحدر من عائلة لبنانية، صرّح في غير مناسبة أنه سمع اللحن من أعمامه الذين كانوا يعزفونه على العود في السهرات العائلية. الأغنية التي ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning Incidents at the Marmara University Faculty of Communications
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[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] 24 January 2013 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Office of the Prime Minister Başbakanlık 06573 Ankara, Turkey Dear Prime Minister Erdoğan: I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom concerning the alarming incidents that have been reported at Marmara University’s Faculty of Communications under the leadership of its government-appointed dean, Yusuf Devran. Since his appointment in July 2011, Dean Devran has reportedly used his position to single out ...
Keep Reading »Statement In Memory of Three Kurdish Activists Killed in Paris
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[The following statement was issued by the EU Turkey Civic Commission on 9 January 2013.] In Memory of Our Friends: Sakine Canziz, Fidan Dogan, and Leyla Söylemez It was with shock and grief we received the horrible news about the deaths of our dear friends who were massacred in Paris today in the most grotesque way. Sakine Canziz, the co-founder of the PKK in 1978, holds a crucial role in the party. Fidan Dogan (Rojbin), a Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) member from Paris, has also been working closely alongside the EUTCC for many years and her work has been very important to our international work for the Kurds. The assassination of the three highly valued female ...
Keep Reading »Turkey's Kurdish Impasse
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 30 November 2012.] Turkey's Kurdish Impasse: The View from Diyarbakır Executive Summary As Turkey’s biggest Kurdish-majority city and province, Diyarbakır is critical to any examination of the country’s Kurdish problem and of the insurgent PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). The armed conflict has deteriorated in the past year and a half to its worst level in over a decade, with increased political friction and violence leading to the deaths of at least 870 people since June 2011. While as many Kurds live in western Turkey, particularly in Istanbul, as in the south east, grievances that underlie support ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning Prolonged Denial of Justice for Pinar Selek
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[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] 12 December 2012 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Office of the Prime Minister Başbakanlık Ankara, Turkey Dear Prime Minister Erdoğan: I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) in order to express our dismay and concern over the fourteen-year-long cycle of trials and acquittals that has subjected Pınar Selek, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Strasbourg, to prolonged denial of justice. Selek’s plight has also contributed ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning Ongoing Pattern of Arrests of Turkish Academics Researching Kurdish Issues
[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) concerning arrests and detentions of academics and researchers working on Kurdish issues.] 12 December 2012 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Office of the Prime Minister Başbakanlık Ankara, Turkey Dear Prime Minister Erdoğan: I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom in order to express our dismay and concern over the ongoing pattern of arrests and detentions of academics, scholars and students on the basis of their research and scholarship concerning ...
Keep Reading »Turkish Academics' Statement of Solidarity with Kurdish Detainees on Hunger Strike
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[The following statement was issued by the below-listed Turkish academics in support of the demands and rights of the Kurdish hunger strikers protesting their detention.] To the Press and the Public: We, the academics listed below, would like to declare that we will include the Kurdish problem and the demands of the hunger strikers on our agenda-- in our academic activities, in the courses we present at our universities and in our written work-- until all Kurdish detainees can exercise their right to defense in their native language and until the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is ended to re-establish his communication with his lawyers and to enable the continuation of ...
Keep Reading »Trial of Israeli Attack on Freedom Flotilla Begins on November 6
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[The following article was issued by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation on 1 November 2012.] The first hearing of the trial concerning an Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and Mavi Marmara ship will be held at an İstanbul court on Nov.6. IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, which is one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla, is carrying out significant work to bring this case to the world’s attention. Hundreds of lawyers will seek co-plaintiff status at the trial. The suspects of the trial include former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, Naval Forces commander Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, Israel's military ...
Keep Reading »The Process in Turkey
In early 2013, a critical process is unfolding regarding the solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey. The success of this process—that is, the protection of Kurdish people's collective rights through the making of constitutional and legal amendments—is fundamental to ending the war which has been waged for thirty years in Turkey. These developments in Turkey are not independent from developments taking place in the rest of the Middle East. A historic process is unfolding regarding the Kurdish ...
Keep Reading »The End of an Era: The Less than Grand Opening of the New Ottoman Archives
[The following status update on the new Ottoman Archive Center in Kağıthane was written by Patrick Adamiak, Jeffery Dyer, and Michael Christopher Low.] For generations, historians of the Ottoman Empire and its former territories in the Balkans and the Arab Middle East participated in a rite of passage linking them to the Ottoman bureaucrats they studied. Going to work at the Ottoman Archives (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi) entailed the humbling experience of passing through the famous gates at Bab-ı Ali, ...
Keep Reading »The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Israeli Relations: An Interview with Professor Cihan Tugal
In his Nowruz message on 21 March, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, declared a ceasefire and called on armed militants to withdraw from Turkish territory. He said, “Today we are waking up to a new Middle East, a new Turkey, and a new future” and added, “The Middle East and Central Asia are looking for a new order. A new model is a necessity, like bread and water. It’s inevitable that Anatolia and Mesopotamia will be pioneers in building this model.” Öcalan’s ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Amr Adly, State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era
Amr Adly, State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amr Adly (AA): The book is based on my PhD dissertation that I completed in September 2010 at the European University Institute in Florence. I specialized in political economy, and decided to write my thesis on the political economy of the Middle East in general, and Egypt in particular. My choice had to do ...
Keep Reading »Turkish Progressive Lawyers Association Statement on Lawyers' Arrests
[The following statement was issued by the Progressive Lawyers Association of Turkey on 18 January 2013.] Police terrorism against defense lawyers continues. Lawyers are being taken under custody and searches are carried out in their offices and houses as well as two offices of Progressive Lawyers’ Association. The offices of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Istanbul and Ankara Branches, The People’s Law Office (An independent law office defending the basic rights of the suppressed), and a ...
Keep Reading »Qatar Leaks: The Business of Foreign Policy
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Keep Reading »European Lawyers Protest Against Ongoing Arrests in Turkey
[The following statement was issued by the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights on 20 December 2012.] ELDH is gravely concerned about the ongoing wave of arrests in Turkey. Some 8.000 politicians, trade-unionists, journalists, artists, students, human rights activists as well as their lawyers have been the victims of mass arrests in Turkey since 2009. Most of them have been arrested as part of the KCK operation mounted by the Turkish Government. The KCK or ...
Keep Reading »NEWTON Author Nergis Ertürk Receives MLA First Book Prize
We are very happy to report that Nergis Ertürk, whose book Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey was featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) in 2012, is the recipient of the Nineteenth Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. She will receive the award, together with the other winners of 2012 MLA publication prizes, on 5 January at the 2013 Annual MLA Convention in Boston. This gives us the opportunity to congratulate four other 2012 NEWTON authors who were also awarded major ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning Allegations of Turkish Universities' Censorship of Subjects
[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) concerning censorship several Turkish universitiess.] 12 December 2012 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Office of the Prime Minister Başbakanlık Ankara, Turkey Dear Prime Minister Erdoğan: I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom in order to express our dismay and concern over recent ...
Keep Reading »A Nation of Pain and Suffering: Syria (Part 2)
Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weakness like ants. -- Nizar Qabbani, “Footnotes to the Book of Setback” (Hawamesh ‘ala Daftar al-Naksah), 1967. II. Neighbors. As the refugees pour into Syria’s neighbors, tensions come with them. The most thorough report on these tensions was ...
Keep Reading »Urgent Call for Kurdish Hunger Strikers in Turkey
[The following letter is being circulated as of 3 November 2012 with respect to Kurdish prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey.] To Your Attention: Academicians from different disciplines and universities in Turkey have started a new campaign in the face of the hunger strike of 683 Kurdish detainees in Turkish prisons. Sixty-four of them have passed their fifty-third day while seventy-nine more have been continuing their strike for forty-three days. The prime minister of Turkey has denied the existence ...
Keep Reading »HRW Calls on Turkey and Iraq to Open Borders to Syrian Refugees
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 14 October 2012.] The Iraqi and Turkish authorities should immediately re-open border crossings where more than 10,000 Syrians have been stranded for weeks and allow all those wishing to seek asylum to cross without delay, Human Rights Watch said today. Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing recent fighting – including in Syria’s Aleppo, Idlib, and Deir el Zor provinces – are attempting to use the crossings to reach Iraq and Turkey quickly ...
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