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SUMMARY:Academics Under Attack: Turkey and Egypt - Professor Khaled Fahmy 
 (Cambridge)\, Dr Bermal Aydın (LSE)\, Dr Bahar Başer (Coventry)\, Anne A
 lexander (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171107T123000Z
DTEND:20171107T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu
DESCRIPTION:Academics\, students and university campuses have recently bec
 ome major targets for repression by authoritarian governments in Egypt and
  Turkey. In Egypt hundreds of students and academics have been arrested as
  part of an escalating crackdown on dissent since the military coup of 201
 3. In January 2016\, Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni went missing. His
  body was later found bearing marks of torture. The Egyptian government ev
 entually admitted that state security officials had put Giulio under surve
 illance but deny any role in his torture and murder. Meanwhile\, hundreds 
 of Turkish and Kurdish academics have been forced from their jobs and doze
 ns arrested during the past two years\, in an orchestrated campaign by the
  government against signatories to an open letter calling for a peaceful s
 olution to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. \n\nThis public meeting brings 
 together academics from Egypt and Turkey with campaigners to discuss what 
 we can do here in the UK to mobilise solidarity for our colleagues who are
  under threat.
LOCATION:Old Library\, Pembroke College
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