Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

The post-coup actions of the Turkish government are anti-democratic!

Disgraceful.

Associate Arts Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Theater Program Director, NYU Abu Dhabi

Professor, University of the Pacific California, U.S.A.

Professor Emerita Department of Anthropology Indiana University

Professor of Religious Studies and Classics, NYU

We consider the purge an outrageous and brazen effort to curb free speech, silence critics of the government, and anyone else who doesn't tow the government line.

Professor University of Virginia

As the current President of the European Association for American Studies, our thoughts are with our colleagues and friends across Turkey

El fracaso de un golpe de Estado no puede servir para imponer una dictadura. Eso es el TRIUNFO de un golpe de Estado.

Secondary School Teacher

Freedom for universities.

Assistant Professor, The New School

Provisions Learning Project, Washington DC

Lecturer, Utrecht University

strongly support

Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. In solidarity with Turkish colleagues. The loss of your free voices would impoverish us all.

The only way to consolidate democracy and peace is to ensure human rights of citizens are respected and protected, not the other way around. Suppression and injustice through indescriminatory heavy handed crackdown on citizens only worsen the situation ajd accellerate the explosion of worst violence.