A crackdown on Turkey’s higher education sector is hurting international academic collaborations and student and scholar exchanges. A joint statement signed by 42 American and European scholarly groups describes what’s happening in Turkey as a “massive and virtually unprecedented assault” on principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression and says “the crackdown on the education sector creates the appearance of a purge of those deemed inadequately loyal to the current government.”

July 29, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed