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ISA endorses Carleton University petition on behalf of Cihan Erdal
ISA endorses Carleton University petition on behalf of PhD sociologist student, Cihan Erdal, taken under custody in Türkiye
«Cihan Erdal, a PhD candidate and researcher at Carleton University in Canada and LGBTI+ activist has been detained in Istanbul-Türkiye on 25 September 2020, along with 81 others, including academics, activists, and politicians as part of the prosecutions against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) (...) We academics and researchers around the world defend Cihan Erdal and demand that the Turkish government free Cihan and that the Canadian government support his release.We kindly request that university and academic institutions worldwide support Cihan Erdal, so that he may continue his research in freedom».