Esra Mungan

Esra Mungan is a Turkish academic and Associate Professor of Psychology at Boğaziçi University who was arrested in 2016 for signing the Academics For Peace petition against the conflict between the Turkish military and PKK Kurdish militia in South-East Turkey. Mungan was among the 1128 signatories of a January 2016 petition calling for an end to violence in the region. In March she was arrested and dismissed from her post at her university.

Mungan, along with other members of Academics for Peace faced up to seven years in prison under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code which penalises 'denigrating Turkishness'. On the first day of her trial for 'terror propaganda', she was freed by a Turkish court “pending permission from the justice ministry” to reduce the severity of the charge.