President of Turkey Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/president-of-turkey/ 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, 01 Feb 2017 20:45:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 President of Turkey Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/president-of-turkey/ 32 32 59910430 CCS Requests New US President Intercede for Serkan Golge https://concernedscientists.org/2017/02/ccs-requests-new-us-president-intercede-for-serkan-golge/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:11:29 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=5835 The Committee of Concerned Scientists has requested that the new United States President contact the President of Turkey and request the return of NASA scientist, Serkan Golge, who is being held in Turkish prison accused of being complicit in coup attempt. February 2, 2017 The Honorable Donald J. Trump President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania […]

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]]> 5835 Turkish Scholars Arrested, Investigated and Fired from Jobs for Signing Petition https://concernedscientists.org/2016/04/turkish-scholars-arrested-investigated-and-fired-from-jobs-for-signing-petition/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:52:55 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=5023 Over 1100 Turkish scholars  signed a petition requesting better treatment of the Kurds and asking for a peaceful settlement of the Kurdish situation. Many of those who signed the petition were terminated from their jobs, detained on criminal charges, and investigated. Four scholars have been arrested. CCS has written to President Erdogan requesting that he […]

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