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The collapse of Turkish academia

The Turkish government’s clampdown on the academic community has reached the country’s top faculties and scholars.

Riot policemen walk over gowns which were laid down by academics during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities following a post-coup emergency decree, in the Cebeci campus of Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTX30F6V
Riot police walk on gowns that had been laid down by academics during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities following a post-coup emergency decree, Ankara University, Ankara, Feb. 10, 2017. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

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