Word: cumhuriyet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November, the government has fired 40 university professors for being too leftist; 280 more have resigned. Because of increasingly vigilant press censorship, newspapers have not been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu...