Second hearings of four academics and first hearings of three academics have been held. Academics Alper, Eksen and Çağlayan have made their statements of defense.

Hearings of academics, who have been standing trial on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” for having signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” prepared by Academics for Peace, continued in İstanbul 36th, 34th, and 14th Heavy Penal Courts.

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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Esra Mungan, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Meral Camcı, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Muzaffer Kaya ve Doç. Dr. Kıvanç Ersoy’un yargılandığı dava dosyasına Bakanlık izin yazısı girdi, avukatları yazıya itiraz edeceklerini belirtti.

Barış akademisyenlerine yönelik açılan ilk dava olan, bir süre tutuklu kalan dört akademisyenin yargılandığı İstanbul 13. Ağır ceza Mahkemesi’ndeki dava dosyasına Adalet Bakanlığı’nın TCK 301. Maddeden soruşturma izin belgesi girdi.

Scholars at Risk (SAR) has announced Turkey’s Academics for Peace (Barış İçin Akademisyenler) as recipients of the 2018 Courage to Think Defender Award, for their extraordinary efforts in building academic solidarity and in promoting the principles of academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and the peaceful exchange of ideas. The award, which will be presented at the Scholars at Risk Network 2018 Global Congress, will be accepted on behalf of the group by Muzaffer Kaya, of Technische Universität Berlin, and Tebessüm Yılmaz, of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.