{"id":25622,"date":"2022-09-14T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=25622"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:31","slug":"sociology-phd-candidate-cihan-erdal-has-returned-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2022\/sociology-phd-candidate-cihan-erdal-has-returned-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology PhD candidate Cihan Erdal has returned to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Sociology PhD candidate Cihan Erdal has returned to Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>It is with great relief and happiness that the Department of Sociology and Anthropology shares the news that Cihan Erdal, doctoral candidate in Sociology, has made it back to Canada safely. Cihan was illegally detained in Turkey almost two years ago as part of a politically-motivated sweep of left-wing activists and politicians by the current Turkish government. With the incredible mobilizing efforts of Cihan\u2019s life partner, Omer Ongun, and the support of many others in Canada and globally, Cihan has finally returned home to Ottawa. His unlawful detention, condemned by the European Parliament, the UN, and Amnesty International, is an important reminder of the importance of upholding the freedom to dissent without fear of arrest or recrimination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/cihan-erdal-returns-to-ottawa-1.6580455#:~:text=CBC%20News%20Loaded-,Carleton%20PhD%20student%20returns%20to%20Canada%20after%20imprisonment%20in%20Turkey,to%20return%20back%20to%20life.\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/cihan-erdal-returns-to-ottawa-1.6580455#:~:text=CBC%20News%20Loaded-,Carleton%20PhD%20student%20returns%20to%20Canada%20after%20imprisonment%20in%20Turkey,to%20return%20back%20to%20life.\">Click here<\/a> to read an article written by the CBC and for more information on Cihan and his case, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecihanerdal.ca\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.freecihanerdal.ca\">www.freecihanerdal.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great relief and happiness that the Department of Sociology and Anthropology shares the news that Cihan Erdal, doctoral candidate in Sociology, has made it back to Canada safely. Cihan was illegally detained in Turkey almost two years ago as part of a politically-motivated sweep of left-wing activists and politicians by the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-students"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25630,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions\/25630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}