AAUP Protests Turkish Verdict

Inside Higher Ed: Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors has written to Turkey’s minister of justice to protest the recent conviction of a political science professor, Atilla Yayla, for saying that the country’s founder was not as progressive as government officials say he was. Nelson called for the conviction to be vacated, and said that punishment of a scholar for expressing views was “inimical to internationally accepted principles of free expression.”

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