Skip to main content

Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

2,093 Comments

O
Olivier Hekster
10 years ago

Director, Research Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University

K
Koen Lemaire
10 years ago

Dutch academic

T
Tina Sousourada
10 years ago

We lost Democracy!

M
Mike Laufenberg
10 years ago

University of Technology, Berlin

M
Murray Simpson
10 years ago Featured

Free and independent universities are a core element of any democratic society. The curtailment of academic freedom is one of the first signs of democracy under threat. I want to urge you to halt and reverse the purge of Turkish universities.

K
Kristof Verslype
10 years ago

PhD of Engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium. Now researcher for Belgian Government

P
Pat Cullum
10 years ago

Dr Pat Cullum University of Huddersfield

L
Luca Ferrero
10 years ago

Professor of Philosophy - University of California - Riverside

S
Saundra Schwartz
10 years ago

Without teachers, Turkey will fall into a dark age.

P
Peter Laszlo
10 years ago

Phd, Assitant Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

G
genta skura
10 years ago

I strongly support academic freedom in Turkey, teachers and professors

A
Ahmad Nadalizadeh
10 years ago

Stop this obscenity!

G
Giselinde Kuipers
10 years ago

chair of the sociology department, University of Amsterdam

D
Daria Vitasovic
10 years ago

University of Milan, Italy

C
Chiara Milanesi
10 years ago

Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Aix en Provence

A
Anonymous
10 years ago

Royal Holloway, University of London

P
Prof Elizabeth Frazer
10 years ago

Political norms mean that opposition to a government or a party does not in any sense imply opposition to the state, constitution, or institution of government as such; and certainly cannot be the basis for inference to any support for military rule or the participation of the military in the transfer of power. This can only be contrued as an attack on academic values of criticism, critique, free scholarship, and public speech.

B
Beth Breeze
10 years ago

Thinking of all our academic friends and colleagues in Turkey.

T
Todd Davies
10 years ago

I spend three years teaching at a university in Turkey and loved being in the country. Its educators deserve much better than this!

I
Istvan Kiraly
10 years ago

Can't admise !