Yektan Turkyilmaz Interview
Via Blogrel, Inside Higher Ed has an interview with Yektan Turkyilmaz, the Turkish scholar of Kurdish descent who was arrested in June by Armenian National Security Service agents, the successor to the Soviet era KGB, but released two months later.
Four months ago, Yektan Turkyilmaz was a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at Duke University, well-regarded but little known outside his field. Then, on June 17, authorities at the airport in Yerevan, Armenia ordered him off a plane and placed him under arrest, confiscating nearly 100 books and CDs of research he had done as the first Turkish scholar ever granted access to the National Archives of Armenia.
The full interview can be read online here.
