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Turkey Resumes its Crackdown on Student Protesters

by DC Editors - April 5, 2021

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Turkey Resumes its Crackdown on Student ProtestersUniversities in Turkey like universities elsewhere in the world are expected to be apolitical and autonomous institutions. As is the tradition, the rectors of universities in Turkey have always been elected but all that is changing under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. As the Turkish strongman pushes authoritarianism, he has resorted to appointing rectors, which he did in January 2021. Students have protested, stressing the need to respect the rule of electing rectors. The students argue that the appointment of rectors erodes academic freedoms. Erdoğan’s police state responded with repression, recently resuming its crackdown on the student protestors. Deutsche Welle had this information:

A Turkish court today ordered the release of two student protesters detained since February 4. Şilan Delipalta and Anıl Akyüz were arrested for joining an unauthorized protest against President Erdogan’s controversial appointment of an unelected rector to Turkey’s Boğaziçi University in January. Their detention was just one episode in a broad crackdown on student protesters in Turkey this year.    

Police have responded to peaceful demonstrations with excessive force detaining around 700 protesters since January – the majority of whom have been released shortly afterwards. At least five students were reportedly detained for carrying LGBT flags on March 25. The latest images of violent arrests of student protesters, 35 of whom were detained for a few hours on April 1, showed police grabbing some students by the throat and throwing them to the ground. These shocking images show growing government intolerance for students demonstrating against what they see as the Erdogan government’s bid to control higher education through the appointment of rectors.

At least 12 students have spent periods in pretrial detention and dozens currently face prosecution on charges such as “resisting police orders,” “violating the law on demonstrations,” and “inciting public hatred” for merely exercising their right to peaceful assembly. Authorities have imposed restrictive measures on dozens of other students including house arrest, travel bans, and judicial controls requiring they sign in at the nearest police station on a regular basis. Boğaziçi University has also placed dozens of students under disciplinary investigation, accusing them of  “insulting campus security personnel” and “organizing unauthorized protests on campus,” which could result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the university.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Europe, Political Dissidents, Turkey

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