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Secularist academic jailed in Turkey
by Alison Abbott
Nature
June 27, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/2731/secularist-academic-jailed-in-turkey
Excerpt:
One of Turkey's most prominent academic reformers, Kemal Gürüz, was arrested and jailed yesterday. The move was condemned by human-rights activists and some Turkish scientists, who say that it is part of a systematic intimidation of academics who oppose the growing influence of Islam in the country's politics.
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