Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

Leiden University

Professor Emeritus University of Arkansas, Fayetteville USA

Associate Professor, English, University of Arizona

researcher at UC Berkeley, USA

We saw how far astray from mercy and tolerance the USA went after 9/11. Let's not see Turkey do anything that bad.

Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, University of Toronto (Canada)

Professor of Economic Geography, University of Salzburg, Austria

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Erdogan's illegal persecution of academics and teachers hobbles scholarship in Turkey and significantly diminishes the credibility of the nation's universities. His order is terrible for the nation, for its scholars, and for its youth.

Down with erdogan

Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

Czech republic

Associate Professor, History Illinois State University, USA

This is a hideous assault on academic freedoms. Turkey boasts some of the finest universities in the region but this will quickly cease to be the case if loyalty to AKP becomes a criterion for academic employment.

Lecturer Arts Studies in Research and Writing UBC

PhD, lector Citizenship and Diversity, The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Lecturer IV, Department of Classical Studies, The University of Michigan, USA.

PhD Researcher, UCL, London

Researcher and Lecturer, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg

I teach political science at Denison University. This move by Erdogan is appalling. Education is key to improving life, maintaining a stable state, and being a part of the world community. Please let these academics do thei good work free of meddling.