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November 19, 2018

Turkey: Government Arrests 14 in Crackdown on Academics and Activists
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In Turkey, fourteen academics and activists were detained Friday over
the 2013 anti-government protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park. They included
the board members of a cultural organization founded by philanthropist
Osman Kavala. Kavala has been held in prison for over a year after he
was arrested in connection with a failed coup against Recep Tayyip
Erdogan's government in 2016. Istanbul has asserted that U.S.-based
cleric Fethullah Gulen is responsible for orchestrating the attempted
overthrow. Twelve of the detainees were released since Friday, while one
academic has been jailed, and another is still being questioned,
according to local reports.


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