Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

Because of the academic travel ban, the world no longer benefits from the great wisdom that Turkey's esteemed scholars has to offer it.

I support the petition

PhD Candidate, Stockholm University

University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Senior Researcher, SFI - the Danish National Centre for Social Research

University of Haifa

This is just so terrible, it reminds me of Pol Pot's Cambodia.. please stop before it's too late.

Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago

I have enjoyed collaborating with Turkish colleagues in research. It is so tragic and awful to hear how academics are now being treated in Turkey.

Sociologist (CNRS), Grenoble (France)

Lecturer, Medieval Studies English Department Göttingen University

Professor, Head, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Greece

Professor of Political Science York University Toronto Canada

Academic freedom is of vital importance to the flourishing and future of all civilisations. Please respect that, and the respect the important work that academics in Turkey have been doing for so long.

I will not be traveling to Turkey until this policy is reversed. I will encourage my colleagues in the United States and around the world to do the same.

Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh

in solidarity. Research fellow, University of Luxembourg

Turquia no tiene futuro sin libertad académica. (Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, México)

Associate Professor of History, Rocky Mountain College

This appears to prove that President Erdogan is the actual instigator of a coup d'etat, and the acts of 15 July were a sham to "afford" him the excuse to do what he has wanted for several years, i.e., to place all power in his hands and suppress all possible voice of opposition.