Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey
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Alexandra Valadas
10 years ago
Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University
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Corina Dobos
10 years ago
University of Bucharest, Romania
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Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
10 years ago
critical debate, academic integrity and independence are central to a just society
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Lieven Buysse
10 years ago
Vice-Dean of Education, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven (Campus Brussels)
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Charles Turner
10 years ago
Mr Erdogan, in the first few years as mayor of Istanbul and then as prime minister, you did many good and important things, improved the economy, cleaned up the streets, provided jobs for millions. Now unfortunately you have lost all sense of proportion, and it is time for you to step down from your office before you corrupt it completely.
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Julian Surber
10 years ago
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Julie Carr
10 years ago
Associate Professor of English and Intermedia Arts
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Shola Adenekan
10 years ago
There should be no place for the suppression of human rights and academic freedom in the 21st Century. Our world is interconnected more than ever, so what happens in Turkey concerns me. And I'm deeply troubled by the purge of academic institutions in Turkey.
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Joshua Burns
10 years ago
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Gabriel Vacariu
10 years ago
Erdogan, the dictator...
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Andrew Brouse
10 years ago
I spent a lovely month with researchers at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul several years ago as part of the eNTERFACE EU research project. Please ensure that academic freedom is preserved in Turkey so that these kinds of important academic exchanges can continue to occur.
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Fatima
10 years ago
Academics should travel to open their knowledge from all over the world
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Jennifer Greiman
10 years ago
SUNY-Albany
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Prof. Michael Goldman
10 years ago
Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota
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Helga Gudmundsdottir
10 years ago
Respect academic freedom!
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Thomas A. Hladczuk
10 years ago
Stop persecuting the citizens of Turkey--and stop destroying deomocracy and freedom!
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Stephen Polk
10 years ago
The whole world is watching.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Ohio State University
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Lisa Leung
10 years ago
the Erdogan government is increasingly closely Turkey down, dragging the once open and modern country back by thousands of years! this is downright attack on human freedoms! please refrain from doing that or you will isolate the country further from civilization!
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Kurt Webb
10 years ago
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Turkey has had world class Universities. One that I graduated from in fact. Academic freedom is critical for scholars to thrive and maintain this standard. Critics are necessary for keeping a democratic nation healthy and at its best.
Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University
University of Bucharest, Romania
critical debate, academic integrity and independence are central to a just society
Vice-Dean of Education, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven (Campus Brussels)
Mr Erdogan, in the first few years as mayor of Istanbul and then as prime minister, you did many good and important things, improved the economy, cleaned up the streets, provided jobs for millions. Now unfortunately you have lost all sense of proportion, and it is time for you to step down from your office before you corrupt it completely.
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Associate Professor of English and Intermedia Arts University of Colorado, Boulder
There should be no place for the suppression of human rights and academic freedom in the 21st Century. Our world is interconnected more than ever, so what happens in Turkey concerns me. And I'm deeply troubled by the purge of academic institutions in Turkey.
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt
Erdogan, the dictator...
I spent a lovely month with researchers at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul several years ago as part of the eNTERFACE EU research project. Please ensure that academic freedom is preserved in Turkey so that these kinds of important academic exchanges can continue to occur.
Academics should travel to open their knowledge from all over the world
SUNY-Albany
Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota
Respect academic freedom!
Stop persecuting the citizens of Turkey--and stop destroying deomocracy and freedom!
The whole world is watching.
Ohio State University
the Erdogan government is increasingly closely Turkey down, dragging the once open and modern country back by thousands of years! this is downright attack on human freedoms! please refrain from doing that or you will isolate the country further from civilization!
Turkey has had world class Universities. One that I graduated from in fact. Academic freedom is critical for scholars to thrive and maintain this standard. Critics are necessary for keeping a democratic nation healthy and at its best.