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 set to give a keynote at the summer school organized by the Mnemonics network in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in September 2019.

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.

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.