GIT-North America

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are facult...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are facult...

Sabancı University, which actually has a finely worded statement on academic freedom, banned May 1 posters on its campus. After a few...

A peaceful protest by the students of May 19 University in Samsun was crashed, first, by private security officers, and then the police ...

BIA Media Monitoring Report for the first quarter of 2012 was released on Wednesday, May 2. 100 Journalists and 35 newspaper distributors w...

Ragıp Zarakolu was among those honored by more than 500 PEN luminaries and supporters at an event in New York City. He received the Associ...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are facult...

Ruşen Çakır  20 th  of April, 2012 Ruşen Çakır  wrote about an imprisoned reporter and the court’s blatant injustice: I received a ...

Following other pieces that have appeared over the last month in the US mainstream media on the charter schools established and run by the ...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are faculty and g...

Martha Woodall of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about the allegations raised over North Philadelphia charter school run by the follower...

Yildirim Turker [1] The AK Party judiciary--apparently newly “liberated” from the yoke of politics--has made yet another decision tha...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are faculty ...

Fred é rike G eerdink, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, had written an entry on her blog entitled "Why I'm unhappy about t...

As a site that is focused on problems with academic liberties and freedom of research in Turkey, we have been reporting very frustrating an...

A conference is taking place today (April 18) in Strasbourg with the cosponsorship of various French and Turkish non-governmental organizati...

The news portal Bianet reports that according to a letter sent by the Ministry of Defense to The Council of Higher Education (YÖK), which ha...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are faculty an...

College students who are subjected to pre-trial detention have the right to attend their exams in their colleges -- if they pay for the gas ...

The minister of National Education, Ömer Dinçer, stated that in 2010 and 2011 a total of 7,043 college students have been subjected to disci...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are faculty and ...

According to the report in Turkish on Bianet on April 10 , Cagdas Kucukbattal, a reporter working for the ETHA news agency was among the 9 p...

Yesterday (April 10, 2012), Istanbul 15. High Criminal Court ruled for the release of 15 defendants, including publisher and journalist Rag...

The European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey to pay 10,000 Euros to Ali Güneş, who was pepper sprayed by the police in 2004 during a ...

GIT - North America is an independent organization, supported solely by the volunteered time dedicated by its members who are faculty and g...