Academics arrested over terror charges

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Turkish court has placed under arrest on terror charges an academic and a teacher who have been on a long hunger strike to protest against their dismissal in a purge after last year’s failed coup, reports said.

Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca were put in custody ahead of trial by an Ankara court late Tuesday on charges of “membership of a terror organisation”, the NTV and CNN-Turk channels said.

They had initially been detained on Monday. (AFP)