{"id":2864,"date":"2018-02-15T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2018-02-15T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:19:22","slug":"turkish-academic-leaving-as-scholar-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"Turkish academic leaving as \u2018scholar at risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahvalnews.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AHVAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A liberal scholar known for his activism in favour of a referendum change in 2010 is planning to leave Turkey for a position at Oxford University aided by a fund for scholars at risk, left-nationalist Ayd\u0131nl\u0131k newspaper said .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurat Belge too is joining the caravan of liberal writers leaving Turkey,\u201d the newspaper said, adding that anti-government academics were upset that a figure they saw as having been close to the government until recently should apply for funding to escape the consequences of its policies.<\/p>\n<p>Belge had a long record of espousing liberal causes in Turkey and narrowly avoided a prison sentence in 2005 for hosting a conference on the Armenian genocide at Istanbul\u2019s Bilgi University.<\/p>\n<p>He was among the founders and active members of the human rights group Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly, later renamed Citizens\u2019 Assembly, which became a target of the Turkish press after two of its employees were among 10 rights activists detained on accusations of planning to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p>Belge was also prominent in the run-up to the 2010 referendum on changing Turkey\u2019s constitution, in which he urged a \u201cyes but not enough\u201d vote in favour of what he saw as a broadly positive set of changes to the military-instituted 1982 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents to the measure said that liberals were being manipulated by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and that while the package included wide-ranging reforms, it would also increase the power of the executive over the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>AHVAL A liberal scholar known for his activism in favour of a referendum change in 2010 is planning to leave Turkey for a position at <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2864\" title=\"Turkish academic leaving as \u2018scholar at risk\u2019\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-turkey-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}