Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

Can't believe this is happening ...

professor, SUNY Fredonia

What the hell????? Academia???

Time working with writers in Istanbul three years ago was among the most rewarding and exciting work I`ve ever been involved with. Even before the coup, the city felt frightened and cowed. Now, I fear for the promise I discovered there and for my many friends.

graduate student Rutgers University

Research Scientist, University of Bremen

I long to visit Turkey, as a tourist and to visit friends there, and to take my family. But I am putting off my trip indefinitely until the human rights situation improves and academic freedom is restored. Turkey has terrific universities with leading historians, archaeologists, scientists, and many other academics. The students who come to the U.S. from Turkey to pursue graduate studies are top notch. It is sad to see all of the country's academic achievements destroyed.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, History Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teacher

PhD, University of California at Irvine

Adjunct lecturer, University of Crete

We must fight for the independence do academic institutions all around the world. The coup in Brazil is also beginning to threat the teachers supported by conservative and military forces. We must resist.

Vrijheid van spreken en meningsuting is democratie, onderdrukking is GEEN democratie!

CNRS research fellow - CENS (Nantes, France)

CNRS, Paris (France)

Professor, Paris Sorbonne University

Knowledge is power - The pen is mightier than the sword - Eduction creates intelligent, critical and creative people -... So yes, I understand why a dictator is so scared of academia, but no, there is no excuse to take away from the Turkish people you should protect and serve yet more basic human rights!!!!!! (to be born free and equal, to education, to a fair, prosecution and trial, to protection from discrimination and torture, to live in security and liberty, of free choice of employment, of freedom - of movement, of thought, of opinion,...)

Against the repression of the Erdogan govt

These opportunistic policies aim at dismantling Turkish society, rather than protecting it. Turkey's future remains dark without free academic institutions.

Lecturer in Social Psychology, Loughborough University.