The dismissal of historian of the Ottoman Empire Cemal Kafadar from his position as Director of Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, are the latest links in a chain that began in the pre-Trump era at US universities, which sees Palestine as an “exception” to freedom of expression and academic freedom. What is happening at US universities?

Deren Ertaş

07 Nis 2025

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