"2,500 academics worldwide sign petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal #FreeCihanErdal

 2,500 academics worldwide sign petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal

Duvar Englishby Neşe İdil /

Duvar English

Some 2,500 academics worldwide have signed a petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal, a PhD candidate and researcher at Carleton University in Canada and an LGBT activist, who was detained in Istanbul on Sept. 25.

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Famed scholars Enzo Traverso, Judith Butler, Etienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Silvia Federici, Toni Negri and Wendy Brown are among the names who signed the petition titled “#FreeCihanErdal.”