The 2nd High Criminal Court in Turkey’s Kayseri province has sentenced Prof. Dr. Mahmut Dursun Mat, the last rector of Kayseri’s Melikşah University, which was closed by a government decree issued under emergency rule over its alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement, to 10 years in prison on charges of “membership in an armed terrorist organization.” … Continue reading Turkish court sentences rector, deans, academics of closed university to long prison terms over alleged Gülen links