(Anadolu) ISTANBUL – Pro-Palestinian protests on US college campuses continue, with over 2,000 arrests in the past three weeks, with prominent universities like Columbia, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and Yale, according to media reports. Amid nationwide demonstrations in the US, several universities have witnessed hundreds of arrests since …
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