Esra Mungan

Esra Mungan is a Turkish academic and Associate Professor of Psychology at Boğaziçi University[1] who was arrested in 2016[2] for signing the Academics For Peace petition[3] against the conflict between the Turkish military and PKK Kurdish militia in South-East Turkey. Mungan was among the 1128 signatories of a January 2016 petition calling for an end to violence in the region. In March 2016 she was arrested for a month. Her university was supportive of her during the period of her arrest and it still is.

Esra Mungan
Born
Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationAcademic

Mungan, along with other members of Academics for Peace faced up to seven years in prison under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code which penalises 'denigrating Turkishness'. On the first day of her trial for 'terror propaganda', she was freed by a Turkish court “pending permission from the justice ministry” to reduce the severity of the charge.[4]

Career

Mungan studied for her undergraduate degree at Bogazici University before achieving an MA and PhD from American University in Washington, DC.[5]

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References
  1. "Arrested Academic Esra Mungan: We Stand by Our Word". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  2. Abbott, Alison (2016). "Turkish academics jailed for 'making terrorism propaganda'". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19586.
  3. Bahar Baser, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (2017). ""Academics for Peace" in Turkey: a case of criminalising dissent and critical thought via counterterrorism policy" (PDF). Critical Studies on Terrorism. 10 (2): 274–296. doi:10.1080/17539153.2017.1326559.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. France-Presse, Agence (2016-04-22). "Turkish academics freed on first day of trial for 'terrorist propaganda'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  5. "CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
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