In 2015, Turkey’s long-lasting Kurdish conflict ended up with the launching of military operations in the Southeast region. Meanwhile, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and numerous Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) reported several cases of serious violations and documented the aftermath of those curfews on civilians in these conflicted areas. Moreover, in reaction to those operations, a group of academics, called ‘Academics for Peace, released a petition named ‘we will not be a party of this crime’ in 2016. However, in the same year, the 2016 failed coup exacerbated the already tensed situation against the peace academics under the State Emergency Law (OHAL). During the state emergency period, peace academics faced many human rights violations as well as were charged under high criminal courts as allegedly ‘supporting terrorist organization’. This study will tackle the peace academics’ case in order to investigate how state emergency law fuelled human rights violations against signatory academics.