İsmail Beşikçi Foundation launched the report, entitled, “Academic Rights Violations in Turkish Universities on Kurdish Studies.” The report indicated that Kurdish studies started to be accepted at Turkish universities since the 1990s, that Kurdish departments started to be opened after the year 2009, whereas censorship and self-censorship continued in theses and academic publications. The report stated, “Most academics studying the field of Kurdish Studies are trying to foresee which opinions and concepts might exceed the government’s red lines as they conduct their academic studies or share their opinions with their students during lectures.” The report indicated that self-censorship is very common and expressed that concepts like “Northern Kurdistan,” “colony”, “anticolonial” continue to be taboos in the society and that various sanctions are faced still when these concepts are made subjects to studies.
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31.12.2020
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