Ep. 21 The ‘Turkey Purge’ w/ Prof. Beth Baron
from So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
by FIRE
Published: Fri Jan 27 2017
Show Notes
We continue our conversation about the Turkish government’s crackdown on civil society with Middle East Studies Association (MESA) President and City University of New York Professor Beth Baron.
MESA has sounded the alarm bells about the threat to academic freedom posed by the Turkish government. In August 2016,they sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry regarding persecutions and prosecutions of scholars and academics within Turkey.
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