Nuray Mert
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Academic career
After graduating from Feyziye Mektepleri Işık College, she studied political science and history at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, where she obtained the master's degree on a thesis entitled Prens Sabahaddin ve Terakki Mecmuası ("Prens Sabahaddin and Terakki Magazine"), and the doctorate on a thesis entitled Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Laik Düşünce ("Secular Thought in the Early Republican Period").[3] She worked for some time as a research assistant at Boğaziçi University, after which she became lecturer at the Department of Economics of Istanbul University.[4]
In 2012–2013, she was an International Scholar in Residence at the Stanford Humanities Center.[5][3]
Journalism
She used to host a TV show, but this was dropped after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized her.[6][7] She was also fired on February 19, 2012, from her job as a columnist for the daily newspaper Milliyet.[8] Mert has said that she now fears for her personal safety.[6]
The Turkish Journalists' Association has denounced the attacks on Mert by Erdoğan.[9]
In August 2017, Mert was fired from the newspaper Cumhuriyet after writing an article questioning the validity of evolution and another one in support of muftis performing marriages.[10]
References
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- ↑ Nuray Mert, Committee to Protect Journalists, October 2012, Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis - Sidebar: The Dignity of Speaking Out
- ↑ a b "Welcoming 9 New Affiliates," Stanford Global Studies website, 21 April 2012. Accessed: 2 July 2015.
- ↑ "Mert ile Söyleşi," Mediterranean Studies Forum website, 11 September 2012. Accessed: 2 July 2015.
- ↑ 12 April 2012, International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2012-2013
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