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CCS Requests Help Addressing Mass Arrests, Detentions and Suspensions in Turkey

August 2, 2016

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan an...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Dec. 7, 2009. (Photo: Wikipedia)

As many are aware, on June 15 there was a coup attempt in Turkey. The Committee of Concerned Scientists has denounced the attempt by the Turkish military to seize power from the democratically elected leaders.

As an organization of scientists, physicians, engineers, and scholars, dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of colleagues around the world, we also are greatly concerned about the unjustified massive purge of Turkish academics despite their unanimous denunciation of the coup attempt. Academics inside and outside Turkey believe that besides inflicting individual suffering on Turkish scientists and educators, the government purge has delivered a great blow to the entire Turkish higher education and scientific research community.

We are requesting that organizations, schools, universities and corporations that have branches in Turkey, or do business with Turkey, publicly and privately raise their dissatisfaction with the ongoing purge of Turkish citizens, academics in particular, without due process.

The United States corporations that we are aware have businesses in Turkey are as follows:

  • Ford Motor Company
  • General Electric
  • Unilever
  • Siemens
  • Proctor and Gamble
  • Mondelez International
  • Danone
  • Pepsi
  • Bosch
  • Carlsberg

CCS would again like to encourage President Erdogan to return academics and scientists to their previous positions, release those who have been detained, and charge or release those who have been arrested. We would like Turkish authorities to assure that those arrested will be allowed to speak with their attorneys and meet with their families; and that they will receive fair and humane treatment with adequate medical care, food and accommodations.

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Bosch, Carlsberg, Danone, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Mondelez International, Pepsi, Proctor and Gamble, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Siemens, Unilever

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Paul H. Plotz, M.D., Washington, DC

Walter Reich, George Washington University

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Astronomy – Arno Penzias, New Enterprises Associates*

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Alan J. Bard, University of Texas

Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook

Raoul Bott (deceased), Harvard University

Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley

Stanley Deser, Brandeis University

Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburg

David Gross, (2004 Nobel Prize in Physics), Kavil Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara*

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Walter Kohn (deceased), University of California, Santa Barbara*

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John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*

Stuart Rice, University of Chicago

Sir Richard J. Roberts, (1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine), New England Biolabs*

Myriam Sarachick, City College of New York

Harold Scheraga, Cornell University

Sylvan Schweber (deceased), Brandeis University

Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin*

Myrna Weissman, Columbia University

Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*

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