The arrest of several high-profile academics as part of an investigation into an alleged right-wing conspiracy in Turkey prompted thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets of Ankara, the Turkish capital, yesterday. The Associated Press reported that “more than 5,000 people, including students and university teachers in academic robes,” descended up on the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic, “to protest the arrests of university professors and other secularists accused of involvement in an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government.”
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