Carleton University Demands Turkey Release PhD Student Accused of Inciting Protests

Kurds wave the flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party to celebrate, hours after Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the ISIS terrorist group entirely out of a key Syrian town, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 26, 2015. The Associated Press

Carleton University is demanding that the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa push for the release of one of its students detained in Turkey over allegations of inciting protests in 2014 that left 37 dead.

Cihan Erdal, a 32-year-old PhD candidate at Carleton and a permanent resident of Canada, is currently being held by the authorities in a detention centre in the Turkish capital, Ankara.