Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

How could tens of thousands of public servants, teachers and academics have been involved in a coup plot? Coup plots involve at most dozens of people. the scaking and/or arrest of so many people cannot have anything to do with the attempted coup. It is obviously simple political repression.

Benedetta Carlotti, Florence Italy PhD Student in Political science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

Clinical Professor of Law and Richard D. Tulisano '69 Scholar in Human Rights, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Associate Professor & Chair Department of History Illinois State University

Free education for all and freedom of speech and expression is the only hope for a more human focusing future. Free Education, It is imperative that we all de34mocratic citizens in the planet show our solidarity for independence of academic institutions and of academic freedom in Turkley. What happens in Turkey affects us all! This is why we must jopin our voices for protection of education and the academic community in the country.

Professor of Philosophy Carleton University Canada

PhD Candidate, Maastricht University

PhD Student, Anthropology and Middle East Studies, University of Arizona, USA

Associate professor at The Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

Research fellow at University Paris 8

Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University

As Erasmus+ department coordinator I already see anxieties from student's side to proceed with their Erasmus+ nominations at Turkish Universities which I deeply regret. I hope the removed teachers and professors will be rehabilitated and can come back to their work places very soon!

PhD Candidate, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Associate professor, University of Genova, Italy

PhD in Philosophy, Open University of the Netherlands

Turkey needs its academics. Banning them from the university because of fear is a violation that need to stop now.

As a Professor of the University of Helsinki representing free and critical science I do not accept any of the recent attacts by President Erdogan and his party on the Turkish academic community.

Turkish academics make a significant contribution to the world's knowledge and so students, academics and universities should have academic freedom.

Academics all over the world call on the Turkish government to show that it is truly democratic respect the independence of academic institutions and the academic freedom of their faculty and students

This hate Crime needs to stop. And All this people who are acting like a terrorist, Should Stop their crime.