Ayse Erzan Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/ayse-erzan/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:15:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ayse Erzan Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/ayse-erzan/ 32 32 59910430 Ayse Erzan, Retired Physics Professor at Istanbul Technical University and Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese-born American Physicist and Former Chair of the Physics Department at Temple University Received the American Physical Society’s 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/ayse-erzan-retired-physics-professor-at-istanbul-technical-university-and-xiaoxing-xi-a-chinese-born-american-physicist-and-former-chair-of-the-physics-department-at-temple-university-received-the-a/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:55:36 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7671 Ayse Erzan was a signer of the Peace Petition in Turkey and wrongfully indicted. She has been involved in the peace and women’s movements. Upon notice of having received the reward Dr. Erzan commented that she felt the award was not really for her, but more for the struggles of the Academics for Peace. Dr. […]

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]]> 7671 Trial of Turkish Academics Who Signed Peace Petition Leading to Jail Time and Deferred Sentences https://concernedscientists.org/2018/12/trial-of-turkish-academics-who-signed-peace-petition-leading-to-jail-time-and-deferred-sentences/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:36:24 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7267 The first group of Turkish Academics who received indictments have been brought before the courts recently. 700 (of 1,128) have been questioned by police, 542 have been indicted and are in some phase of the trial process. 59 have been sentenced to 15 months, 3 have been sentenced to 18 months, one to 27 months […]

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]]> 7267 Retired Turkish Professor, Dr. Ayse Erzan, Returns to Court on April 6 https://concernedscientists.org/2018/04/retired-turkish-professor-dr-ayse-erzan-returns-to-court-on-april-6/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:50:15 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6814 The Statement of the Defense to the Court by Dr. Ayse Erzan is published in its entirety in Bianet. She is being tried under charges of “terrorist propaganda” for signing the Peace Petition, requesting the government to end the violence and open the way to dialogue and a lasting peace. Originally, this statement was presented […]

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