Ankara University Human Rights Center Closed

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Human Rights Center at Faculty of Political Sciences (SBF), Ankara University has been closed. A faculty member legist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kerem Altıparmak, who was serving at the center, announced the closure on his Twttier.

“SBF Human Rights Center, which served for 40 years and was the honor of the academy of Turkey, has been closed. We have removed its sign with our own hands. Of course, our struggle for human rights hasn’t ended, we will always advocate what is right!”

23 of the 95 academics, who were discharged from Ankara University through a statutory decree issued on February 23, 2017, were from the Faculty of Political Sciences.