Turkish academic Cihangir Islam speaks at his home during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, February 14, 2017. Picture taken February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ANKARA (Reuters) - Standing at a blackboard in an Ankara park, Sevilay Celenk delivers her lecture, titled: "Resisting with Stories". Several hundred students huddle in heavy coats against winter cold to listen as she describes the fears and struggles that echo through literature across societies.
This small amphitheatre has become her unofficial classroom since she was fired from her post as a media and communications lecturer at Ankara University, one of nearly 5,000 academics dismissed following July's failed army coup.
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