Research associates Çınar and Arıkan from Boğaziçi University have had their first hearing in 37th Heavy Penal Court. Their demands for immediate acquittal have been rejected. The hearings will resume on February 12.

Trials of academics, who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" for having signed the declaration entitled "We will not be a party to this crime" prepared by the Academics for Peace, continued in İstanbul Çağlayan Courthouse after the new court year began.

We, the signatory academics to the Peace Declaration that went public in January 2016, have been subjected to multiple forms of intimidation, repression, defamation by governmental authorities as well as by pro-AKP groups in Turkey for more than two years. Despite all the pressures we have stood for our claim to peace in our country. Despite all the intimidation we opted to stand in solidarity against the breach of our academic rights and liberties.

On 23 July 2018, İstanbul’s 29th High Criminal Court accepted the indictment against detained lawyer and academic Hanifi Barış and ordered his continued detention. He was arrested for posts he made on social media on 4 July 2018 and is charged with creating “terrorist propaganda”. He has been kept in solitary confinement for approximately 10 days. His first hearing is scheduled for 18 September 2018.

Barış bildirisi imzacısı akademisyenlere yönelik davalar 5 Aralık 2017'de başladı. 17 Temmuz 2018'e kadar 256 akademisyenin ilk duruşması görüldü. 19 kişiye ceza çıktı, üç mahkemede 50 dosya birleştirildi.

Barış İçin Akademisyenlerin “Bu suça ortak olmayacağız” bildirisini imzaladıkları için "Terör örgütü propagandası" ile suçlanan akademisyenlere yönelik Çağlayan’daki İstanbul Adliyesi’ndeki davalara adli tatil nedeniyle ara verildi.