Turkey’s Crackdown on Academics Represses History Once Again
A campaign of silencing and prosecution is creating a vacuum at a pivotal moment.
For the past two decades, the Turkish academic Ayse Gul Altinay has been providing, through her writing and research, incisive analysis of the impact of violence on her country. Her work offered a better understanding of how conflict has passed through generations and was beginning to build a blueprint on how to break this cycle.