Turkish professors suffer while Erdogan imprisons them without trial

Published November 29, 2016 5:01am ET



On July 26, Gursel Duzenli, a popular professor of engineering at Sakarya University, was eating at his home in Turkey with his wife and three children. Suddenly, a swarm of police officers flooded the house. For four hours they searched the house and garden for evidence of contact with the organization of Fethullah Gullen, a Turkish religious and political figure living in exile in the United States who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of orchestrating the failed coup d’etat on July 15.

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