Immanuel Wallerstein

An Istanbul court arrested three Turkish academics late March 15 for "making terrorist propaganda" when they read out a joint petition signed by more than 1,000 colleagues calling for an end to clashes between security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in January. 

A British academic has been taken into custody on suspicion of making propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), after distributing leaflets inviting people to Nevruz holiday celebrations on March 21.

A total of 464 investigations have been launched by public universities into academics who signed a petition calling for an end to military operations in Turkey's southeast since the controversy erupted in January.

It is only the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and anti-national academics who are opposing the construction of new dams and hydroelectric power plants (HES), according to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has slammed hundreds of academics and intellectuals who called on Ankara to end military operations in southeast Turkey, urging them to condemn acts of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) instead.

Academics and intellectuals who publicly called on the Turkish government to end security operations in southeastern Anatolia and return to the table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue are the "conscience of the country," a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has strongly reacted to a petition signed by more than 1,000 local and international academics calling on the Turkish government to end the security operations being committed in southeastern Anatolia and to return to table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue, describing the signatories as "ignorant." After an urgent meeting on Jan.