Destek alın – Freedom for Academia
Destek alın	admin	2017-10-17T12:11:12+00:00
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By Freedom for Academia (FfA) collaborators, with input from Prof. Neşe Özgen and *Assoc. Prof. Candan Badem
AKP hükümeti “15 Temmuz 2016 darbe girişimi”nden sonra Kanun Hükmünde Kararname (KHK)’lerle sekiz bini aşkın akademisyen işsiz kaldı. Bu akademisyenlerin arasında Prof. Dr. Öget Öktem-Tanör (Nöropsikoloji), Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner (Siyaset Bilimi), Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan (Ekonomi), Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu (Anayasa Hukuku), Prof. Ömer Geçici (Psikiyatri), Prof. İştar Gözaydın (Sosyoloji), Prof. Cem Terzi (Genel Cerrahi), Prof. Dr. A. Özdemir Aktan (Genel Cerrahi), Prof. Dr. Melek Göregenli (Sosyal Psikoloji), Prof. Dr. Ayşe Gül Yılgör (Iktisadi ve Idari bilimler), Prof. Dr. Haluk A. Savaş (Psikiyatri) ve Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Jale Saraç (Fizik tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon) gibi kendi bilim dallarında saygınlık kazanmış bilim insanları da yer alıyor. İşten çıkarılan akademik personel sayısı, toplam akademisyenlerin %6’sı gibi önemli bir orana tekabül ediyor.
Freedom for Academia (FfA) olarak yayınladığımız bu kısa raporda, Türkiye’nin akademik ve bilimsel araştırmalarına bu %6’lık oranın açıklayabileceğinden çok daha ciddi bir darbe vurulduğunu tespit ettik. Akademisyenler KHK’lar ile işten atılmaya başlandıktan sonra Turkiye’deki bilim adamları tarafından 2017’de yayınlanan makalelerde 2016’ya nazaran %12’ye yakın bir düşüş olduğu görülüyor. Bu rakam ise 2017’de SCOPUS tarafından taranan/indekslenen dergilerde beklenenden ~7,000 makale daha az. AKP hükümetinin yayınladığı KHK’ların uzun vadede Türkiye bilimine etkisi ise daha ileri tarihlerde yapılacak araştırmalar ile daha net bir şekilde ortaya çıkartılacaktır.
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The University of Oslo (UIO) has granted the 2017 Human Rights Award to Turkish academic and activist Professor İştar Gözaydın for her efforts towards freedoms and human rights in Turkey.
Professor Gözaydın, who spent some four months in prison after last year’s coup attempt in Turkey, told UIO’s Uniforma newspaper that she was honored by the award and said she thinks she was given it because of an article about her in the newspaper last year.
UIO Rector Svein Stølen told Uniforma that Gözaydın was honored because she is a successful academic, active in public debates and contentious in freedom of expression and human right issues.
Stølen said he expects Gözaydın would arrive in Oslo in November to receive her award.
Speaking about her jail time, Gözaydın told Uniforma that during her pre-trial detention from Dec. 20, 2016 to April 7, 2017 she had received over 200 letters from all over the world and replied to all.
Trade union members more generally have also been heavily targeted by the government.
Our sister trade union in Turkey (Egitim-Sen) has seen over 1500 of its members
dismissed and, in total, more than 100,000 public servants in Turkey have been
dismissed or suspended by emergency decree. In the words of Amnesty International,
‘Cutting 100,000 people off from access to work is akin to professional annihilation on a
In addition to the mass firings of public sector workers, fifteen private universities have
been closed and hundreds of academics and students detained in the crackdown.
Fikret Başkaya, a professor of Economic Development and International Relations was detained following a police raid against his home in Ankara on Monday.
The 77-year-old academic and the author of several books was caught by Ankara police. While the charges raised against him were unknown at the time of this writing, media said police detained some pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members as part of the same investigation, too.
During the search, police seized his laptop along with three books including a copy of Başkaya’s critical book, the Bankruptcy of the Paradigm.
Source: TURKISH COURTS SET TO BEGIN HEARINGS OF PURGED DISSIDENTS IN ACADEMIA