Esra Mungan is a Turkish academic and associate professor of psychology at Boğaziçi University[1] who was arrested in 2016[2] for signing the Academics for Peace petition "We won’t be a party to this crime!"
demanding a peaceful solution to the conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in South-East Turkey.
[3] Mungan was among the 1128 signatories of a January 2016 petition calling for an end to violence in the region.
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.
[4] Mungan studied for her undergraduate degree at Bogazici University before achieving an MA and PhD from American University in Washington, DC.