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Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding disciplinary proceedings against Assistant Professor Halil Ibrahim Yenigun who has been suspended by the university administration of Istanbul Commerce University for being a signatory of the Academics for Peace Petition.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the torture and murder in Cairo of Italian Ph.D. student Giulio Regeni, who was a visiting researcher at AUC.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Professor Emerita, Adjunct Professor and anthropologist Sibel Özbudun who is facing two separate prosecutions related to comments and photographs that she posted on her Facebook page.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Boğaziçi University Prof. Koray Çalışkan who is under criminal investigation for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan on Twitter.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the detention and interrogation of Tunisian Professor Amel Grami, invited to participate in an international conference.
Letter to the Emir of Qatar expressing concern over the continued imprisonment of poet Mohammed al-Ajami for reciting poems allegedly critical of Qatar's government.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu concerning Turkish Higher Education Council's condemnation of a peace petition signed by academics as "terrorist propaganda" triggering a series of disciplinary investigations at various universities, and initiation of criminal investigations, against signatory faculty members.
Letter to Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkowitz expressing concern over procedures involved in the third-year review of Prof. Hanoch Sheinman of Bar Ilan University.
Letter urging the cancellation of presidential decrees impinging upon academic freedom.
Letter to Wheaton College President Philip Graham Ryken urging him to reject the provost's recommendation that "termination-for-cause" procedures be initiated against Professor Larycia Hawkins because certain statements she allegedly made are supposedly inconsistent with the college's Statement of Faith and calling on him to affirm Wheaton's commitment to uphold the principles of academic freedom.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu concerning recent changes made to the legal regulation of the Higher Education Council (Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu, or YÖK), enabling the Council to seize control of private universities, suspend the admission of new students, suspend academic programs, and shut down a university indefinitely.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning graduate student Haydar Darici who is currently subject to a travel ban, preventing him from returning to the US to continue his doctoral studies, and a criminal investigation related to his observation of a demonstration in Diyarbakir following his arrival for research.
Letter to Supreme Leader Khamenei concerning the arrest, conviction, and conditions of imprisonment of Professor Emeritus Mohammad Rafiee.
Letter to UCLA Chancellor Block to express concern about recent statements by the president of UCLA’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) that the Diversity Caucus would be funded only if it had no connections with organizations that advocate divestment or other sanctions against Israel.
Letter to Israeli officials condemning recent attacks against unarmed Palestinian university student protesters at Palestine Technical University in Tulkarem, which included the use of live ammunition and tear gas as well as the deployment of military units onto the university grounds.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning Turkish academic facing criminal indictment for “terrorist propaganda” and praising “crime and criminals” due to a final exam question in his course that required comparison of two texts written by Abdullah Ocalan.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning Turkish academic sentenced to over 11 months imprisonment for attendance at a memorial service during which anti-government slogans were chanted.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning the case of a Bogazici University student detained on secret evidence apparently related to his participation in peaceful pro-Kurdish activism and his possession of written materials and music published by Kurdish political figures.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning three Turkish academics subjected to disciplinary action by state officials for publicly sharing their expert opinions and research findings concerning, respectively, public health, environment and minority rights issues with the media.
Letter to Israeli officials regarding recent attacks against unarmed Palestinian university student protesters, including the beating, detention, and medical neglect of three Birzeit University students.
Letter to government officials protesting the recent restrictions on and harassment of Professor Maati Monjib of Mohamed V University.
Letter to UAE officials regarding the August 18 re-arrest of Professor Nasser bin Ghaith whose whereabouts are unknown and has not been heard from since.
Letter to University of California President Janet Napolitano and the Board of Regents opposing efforts to have the university adopt a dangerously broad and vague definition of anti-Semitism.
Letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran protesting the continued imprisonment of Bahareh Hedayat, and the imposition of a previously suspended two year sentence on her in violation of due process.
Letter to California state senators regarding SCR 35’s overly broad definition of antisemitism.