Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

Associate Professor, Saint Louis University

Germany

Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa

President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes; Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Geneva, Switzerland

A free, democratic and secular Turkey

This is to support academic freedom and all human rights

Moving from an authoritarian regime to a presidential dictatorship is too much to be accepted by the liberal western world

We strongly condemn this action by erdogan

President Erdogan seems to imagine that he is uniting Turkey by attacking education. In fact he is fragmenting it.

I fully support this petition. Andrew Arato New School

I strongly oppose the violations of the academic freedom in Turkey and express my sincere support for and solidarity with the colleagues in Turkey.

I support the academic freedom. No one even the president has no right to trample on it.

I support the move to demand end to persecution of academics in Turkey.

This is to support academic freedom and all human rights

Head of English Qurum Private School Sultanate of Oman

Associate Professor of English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium

Colorado College

I sign this petition. I am Xi Lu, the translator of Universal Declaration of Human Rights into twelve languages or dialects.

PhD Candidate, Northwestern University