Despite the lifting of the state of emergency in July, arbitrary arrests and human rights violations continue.
Academic’s indictment reflects the Turkish government’s criminalisation of free speech
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Noemi Levy-Aksu
Noémi Lévy-Aksu is an historian, currently visiting scholar at Birkbeck College. She is part of the network Academics for Peace-UK and a trustee for the Centre for Democracy and Peace Research.
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