Apply for scholarships for research visits in Sweden for up to 12 months! If you are a PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, senior scientist or university lecturer from Turkey, you can apply for scholarships for research visits to Sweden. Apply during 16 October – 15 December 2017 for the academic year 2018/2019. SI will offer 10 to 12 [...]
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a [...]
Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched Mehmet is a Turkish academic who rarely looks directly at you; instead, he turns away and smiles in a pained way. Unlike almost all of the other delegates at a conference for refugee academics being held in Leipzig, he [...]
Balliol College is delighted to invite applications for its so-called ‘refugee scholarship’: the Balliol Students’ Scholarship, which intends to support a student ordinarily resident in the UK with either refugee status or leave to remain in the UK on the grounds of humanitarian protection in studying for an undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford commencing October 2018.The Scholarship [...]
Akademisyen Doç. Dr. Ahmet Turan Özcerit sonunda tahliye edildi. İzmir’de ileri seviyede karaciğer ve bağırsak kanseri teşhisi konulan, vücudundaki kanseri kiltesinin metastas yaptığı tutuklu Özcerit’in tahliyesine uzun süre izin verilmiyordu. Yanında refekatçi bile bulunmayan Özçerit, eşi ve çocuklarıyla dahi görüştürülmüyordu. Yoğun çaba sonunda tahliye edilen Özcerit oğlu Sinan Özcerit twitter hesabından, “Babam Ahmet Turan Özcerit [...]
İzmir’de ileri seviyede karaciğer ve bağırsak kanseri teşhisi konulan, vücudundaki kanseri kiltesinin metastas yaptığı tutuklu Özcerit’in tahliyesine izin verilmiyor. Yanında refekatçi bile bulunmayan Özçerit, eşi ve çocuklarıyla dahi görüştürülmüyor. Bayram tatili araya girdiği için de tedavisi yapılmıyor. 15 Temmuz sonrası Sakarya Üniversitesi öğretim üyeliğinden ihraç edilen Özcerit, 13 aydır tutuklu. İddianamesi geçtiğimiz günlerde yazılan Özcerit, [...]
As of June this year, according to report by the organization ‘Freedom for Academia’, approximately 6% of Turkey’s 150 thousand academics had lost their jobs in successive waves of purges launched following the coup. Many of those fired have no apparent involvement in the coup or even with the Gülen movement, implying the regime uses the state [...]