NASA Physicist Still Detained By Turkey
Nasa scientist researching mission to Mars still in prison a year on from failed Turkey coup, Telegraph
“It was only eight days after last year’s failed coup attempt against Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but already the reprisals were in full swing. The 37-year-old Nasa physicist, a Turkish-American citizen who was working on the manned mission to Mars programme, was one of tens of thousands of academics, police, military and journalists who were rounded up and detained as Mr Erdogan sought to re-establish his grip on power.”
Just to be precise, Dr. Golge is a Wyle employee working for JSC. I suspect the US government reaction might have been stronger if he had been a NASA employee.
Unfortunately considering all the things going on in Turkey and the surrounding countries, I doubt if Dr. Golge’s situation is near the top of the priority list for dealing with that part of the world regardless of if he worked directly for NASA.