"Bizlerin başına gelenlerin daha da büyük bir hikayenin bir parçası olduğunu, Türkiye’de ve dünyada herkes için adalet, herkes için özgürlük mümkün olmadıkça hiçbirimizin tam olarak özgür olamayacağını kendimize ve birbirimize her daim hatırlatacağımızı umuyorum."
Sevgili arkadaşlar,
Uzun bir haftanın sonunda kendimi biraz yorgun, ama müthiş ferah, mutlu ve umutlu hissediyorum! Sizlerin de bunda büyük payı var.
El pasado viernes recibimos, con gran conmoción y angustia, la noticia de que nuestra compañera de la Universidad de Sabanci (Turquía), Ayse Gül Altinay, había sido condenada a 25 meses de prisión por "apoyar voluntariamente y con conocimiento de causa a una organización terrorista como no miembro". El caso de Ayse no es aislado. Es una de las más de 1.200 Academics for Peace que hace tres años firmó una declaración en la que pedía que se pusiera fin a la violenta persecución llevada a cabo por el estado a la ciudadanía kurda.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, is an important member of the Memory Studies community.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, is set to give a keynote at the summer school organized by the Mnemonics network in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in September 2019.
Die Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) ist bestürzt über die Verhaftung ihres geschätzten Kollegen Tuna Altinel am 11. Mai 2019 anlässlich eines Besuches in der Türkei und fordert seine sofortige Freilassung. Altinel arbeitet seit vielen Jahren als Mathematiker an der Universität Lyon 1 in Frankreich. Professor Altinel engagiert sich in der „Academics for Peace“-Bewegung, die Menschenrechtsverletzungen in der Türkei anprangert.
The American Mathematical Society’s Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians has recently voiced objections to the political prosecution of the Turkish mathematicians Betul Tanbay and Ayse Berkman, who are among the thousands of signatories of the petition protesting military action taken by the Turkish military against Kurdish provinces. Signatories of this petition, including mathematicians and other scholars, have been threatened with the loss of the right to travel and their positions. Recent news indicates that the situation in Turkey is worsening.
Ayse Gul Altinay, Sabanci University in Istanbul was yesterday sentenced to 25 months in prison for ‘willingly and knowingly supporting a terrorist organisation as a non-member’. This is because she signed the statement “We will not be a party to this crime” in support of colleagues, democracy and academic freedom. Ayse is a cultural anthropologist, Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Centre and editorial board member of the European Journal of Women’s Studies.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, Turkish gender studies scholar and one of the EJWS associate editors, has been sentenced to 25 months prison for signing a petition calling for peaceful resolution of conflict between Turkish state and Kurdish minority. She is one of over thousand academics currently facing the same assault by Turkish authorities.
In solidarity with Ayşe and others in the same situation, we publish here information about the processes, as well as Ayşe's statements during the hearings in December 2018 and May 2019.
On 21 May, the renowned Turkish Scholar Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to two years and one month in prison for “aiding a terrorist organisation as a non-member”.
The Executive Committee of the Academic Council at Duke University expresses its deep concern about the prison sentence issued in Turkey to Dr. Ayşe Gül Altinay. An internationally-renowned professor at Sabanci University, Dr. Altinay received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Duke in 2001.
