Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

The integrity of the academy is the hallmark of a healthy society. As an academician, I have had the pleasure to interact with fellow scholars from Turkish universities and find it disturbing that one very important means for us to continue a free exchange of ideas and research methodologies is taken away. More disturbing still are those whom I would consider professional colleagues who have been dismissed from their positions or awakened to find that their institutions have been summarily closed down. This is a line that a democratic society dare not cross. Without an academy free of political pressure, rather than education students can expect mere propaganda. Rather than science, students can expect nothing more than science fiction. I know first hand that the Turkish people are far better than this. I hope the Turkish government will do the right thing and live up to its people rather than destroy the very institutions that enable its people to thrive.

Madness.

phd fellow Oslo

This is unnacceptable in the 21st Century , Something must be done rioght now!

I join my colleagues in the disgraceful, unsubstantiated military attacks directed against the continuing function of academics in Turkey

Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

ESPOL, Lille

Associate Professor of Economics San Antonio College San Antonio, TX

professor of architecture & campus chair of psc-cuny (union) the city college of new york

Without the freedom to teach and learn There can be no real democracy. End the repression now! Steve Leberstein City College of NY, CUNY

Associate professor University of MIlan Italy

Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans

Associate Professor of History The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY.

A most objectionable move- flirs in the face of democracy.

Non-sense

PD Mag. Dr., University of Vienna

For justice

Academic freedom is critical to the freedom and health of any state.

Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi